To Anyone Who Can Answer This Question Of Mine

I always hated guns till I had to get a .22 to kill possums and coons that kill our chickens for fun. I try to trap them first and relocate them but if that doesn't work me and my dogs hunt them out.

 

haha nope, my grandmother was from the U.S., and the absolute epitomy of a sweet southern belle.

stumblebums...I love that one. I'm going to start using it!

 

I have a theory that the general public are sometimes fine with young people they perceive to be dressing in a hippie style, but do take against older people they understand to be hippie or nonconformist in some way. I think it's because they think older people "mean it", or they would have stopped it by now!
The attitude is a patronising to younger people, a bit like patting them on the head and saying "How cute!"

 

I am a hippie, always have been and proud of it. Unfortunately there isn't any money in it for the most part. So I moved to Denver in the early 70's, cut my hair and actually started using what I went to college for. Most people back then associated hippies with draft dodging lazy slackers with no drive to get ahead. I wanted more than that in life so I learned how to talk like the guy on the five o'clock news and put on a tie. I became a business owner and walked and talked with business leaders in the community. I am now retired and looking back it's funny how I fooled everybody. I am now back in bell bottoms and sandals never to wear a suit and tie again.

 

A lot of people only know hippies from the movies and Hollywood stereotypes everything. Hippies tend to be carefree, not tied down or sold out to the 9 to 5 work world. People envy that freedom.