FW: Lets see if I understand

December 27, 2001

Lets see if I understand

>

> BLAME TIME............

>

> Let's see if I understand how America works lately . . .

>

> If a woman burns her thighs on the hot coffee she was holding in her lap

> while driving, she blames the restaurant.

>

> If your teen-age son kills himself, you blame the rock 'n' roll music or

> musician he liked.

>

> If you smoke three packs a day for 40 years and die of lung cancer, your

> family blames the tobacco company.

>

> If your daughter gets pregnant by the football captain you blame the

school

> for poor sex education.

>

> If your neighbor crashes into a tree while driving home drunk, you blame

the

> bartender.

>

> If your cousin gets AIDS because the needle he used to shoot up with

heroin

> was dirty, you blame the government for not providing clean ones.

>

> If your grandchildren are brats without manners, you blame television.

>

> If your friend is shot by a deranged madman, you blame the gun

manufacturer.

>

> If a crazed person climbs into the cockpit of an airliner and tries to

kill

> the pilots at 35,000 feet and the passengers kill him instead, the mother

of

> the deceased blames the airline.

>

> I must have lived too long to understand the world as it is anymore.

>

> So if I die while my old, wrinkled butt is parked in front of this

computer,

> I want you to blame Bill Gates, OK?

>

December 27, 2001