What did you want to be when you grew up?

We have to grow up?

Naturalist.

Jane Goodall and Gerald Durrell were my two heroes.

Gogo girls didn't have to.

A lawyer.

Go-Go girls didn't have to do lawyers?

I'm just gettin' more confused . . .

Customs Agent or correct terminology Customs and Border Protection Officer

When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a toll booth collector, because they get all that money.

Slappy, were we separated a birth?

Toll Booth Collector (or TBC's in the lingo) was my 2nd choice.

Jesus, all those quarters!



We'd drive up the Garden State Parkway to visit Aunt Millie and I was fascinated by those tolls.

I finally asked what they did with all that money, and my mother told me they used it to build the roads.

I'm sitting in the back seat scheming how I could sneak out to the Parkway at night and dig up all those quarters under the asphalt.
That would have bought some really cool gogo girl outfits.

I can't believe you people....lawyers, customs and border protection officers....

I wonder if anyone will show up here and confess they wanted to be an auditor or work a plastic mold injection machine.

Actually, platic mold injection machines are pretty cool.


3rd choice was being a bridge tender. You got to sit in that cool room all day and practice your trumpet, at least that's what the bridge tender closest to my my house did. There were 2 others nearby, but I don't know what they did all day. Maybe they gogo danced.

Oh, and toll booth collectors didn't have to be nice to anybody.

That was a plus.

I wanted to be a seismologist.

Electrician.

Neither do lawyers.

Ok, Bella, I'll bite...

Where you picturing yourself standing in a courtroom like on TV with an exciting murder case going on every day?

Or, were you dreaming of all the billing hours you'd have to put in, and the mounds and mounds of paperwork and I don't even know what all.

When all the other kids were talking about being baseball players or garbage men and firmen, where you trying to get everyone to discuss tort reform?

You never wanted to be a ballerina?

soz...naturalist...I guess in kid language I thought it would be fun to work in a zoo.


seismologist and electrician are both good. They both involve elements of danger.

My first reaction was that I haven't figured it out yet. But then I remembered. . . I used to work in a building that had a fountain in the plaza. In the fountain were silver-colored spheres representing the planets and the solar system. In the morning I would pass a man standing in the fountain polishing the planets. That's what I want to be--a planet polisher.

A Nun...

I swear!

What?



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wow....he got to stand IN the fountain.

Yeah, no one else was allowed to do that.

Plus, didn't people throw quarters or nickels in there?

Did you go to Cat'lik school smorgs?

I too wanted to be a nun for a while, until I realized how sexually frustrated they all were, plus had to wear those hot black outfits...in my day, all the way to the ground and everything covered up except your face. With those stiff bibs you could bounce a nickel off of.

I would never have wasted a nickel on one of those nasty b*tches . . . i hated 'em, ever one . . .

Nunzilla and Godzilla have a go at it, while the budda calmly looks on.