Huh?
What's this?
During the summer, after my fourth (4th) grade year, the word 'gay' changed meaning on the left coast of America.
Prior to that nobody giggled when it was used.
According to the London Independent (online Science Ezine)
Brain changes at puberty 'help to develop intellectual machinery'
Sarah Blakemore wrote:Sarah Blakemore, Neuroscientist at University College London
- "It's not true that the brain stops developing at the age of five, which was a very established myth until about six years ago,"
Seems more likely that there are periods of time when all humans are "
blind archers".
At times we all stand in amazement, inner eyes squinted, peering almost straight into the sun, and occasionally lose sight of our arrow.
~Grandpa
Interested? More found here:
Steve Conner wrote:Steve Connor is the science editor of 'The Independent'
- "So then next time a Kevin or a Vicky gives you lip or blanks you with a defiant stare, spare a thought for the "work in progress" still taking place between their ears."
Okay, another story

(count on Gpa for stories, lol)
My first job was for my dad in a small (Mom-n-Pop) Grocery store which he owned. It was before Southland Corporation and 7-11 had really been established. Later in life (and after being divorced and a short bout with depression) general travel (I'm free!) brought me to Glendale, CA and a job at a Liquor Store in East LA.
So when a customer came into the Liquor Store in East LA carrying a rifle I didn't give it a second thought. Last time a customer brought a weap into the store was when I was working for my dad.

I thought he was just gonna show us his gun. Well, that is, until he pointed it at me and told me to give him the money.
Making a long story short, the Liquor Store owner snuck up behind the guy (and while it was still pointed at me) he wrestled the rifle away from the guy. Afterwards I asked my employer (of Jewish persuasion) about how often the store was robbed and if it happened again, would he endanger my life the same way. I didn't like his answer, "It's more safe if he is disarmed," so we parted company, and I took a different job working in a film development company.
Oh, the new job? I 'rinsed' film in chemical baths and monitored quality. The 'product' was short films also called 'loops' that were to be shown in various quarter slot machines oftentimes in back rooms. That's right, I used to work in the pr0n industry.
~Grandpa