�� new old this that ��

2001-05-21.5:19 p.m.

to all the freshly graduated

and soon to graduate college seniors out there:

you are all dumb.


it really was good advice - advice you should have taken when so many people told you to stay in school forever.

but you didn't take it, did you?

you�re dumb - because now you have to get a job

and sit in a cube

for over 8 hours a day

working 9 to 5 is a fallacy

so say hello to salary

"Hi Salary"

"Hi Freshly graduated dumbasses! Did you know my real name is indentured servitude?"

you�re dumb - because now you have to get an apartment

and a car

and insurance for your car

and apartment

you'll have to drive to work

because college graduates don't take the bus

gas will cost 3 dollars a gallon this summer

now most of your salary will be spent on your apartment, your car, and the gas you need to work

what's left will go to the dinner you have to make yourself

the dinner you'll eat alone or with the boyfriend or girlfriend who's gonna break up with you now that you're boring and not in school

so say hello to your dinner

"Hi Dinner"

"Hi Freshly graduated dumbasses! Did you know my real name is McDonalds?"

you�re dumb - because now that you graduated you're going to have to get married

and get sperm to go inside an egg

and eventually have a baby come out

you'll have to get a mortgage

because you'll need one to afford to live in a house

because your new apartment sucks

it's no place to raise a child

you'll be sick of listening to your spouse about it

you'll give in

and get a mortgage

and a house

you'll stick the baby in the room down the hall

you'll get out of your own room in the middle of the night

because it's crying and it makes sense to walk down long cold halls to stop the baby from crying

because your spouse will want to sleep.

you�re dumb - because you're going to want to retire

so you'll work longer hours so you won't have to work anymore

someday

and you'll want to send the baby to college

like you went to college

because you're a sadistic mother fucker.

you�re dumb - because your baby is going to grow up and leave

because you won't understand each other

and the baby has to go to college like you did

so you'll get a new house

one with less rooms so the baby can't move back in

and cry in the middle of the night

because it's 23 and just lost it's 2nd fianc�e.

you�re dumb - because you're going to retire on less money than you need

to live on for the next 25 years

because you sent the baby to college just to be mean

like your parents were mean to you.

you�re dumb - because your baby will move away

and won't talk to you very often

because that's what babies do

and you're old and crabby

because that's what old and crabby people do

who don't have enough money

and are forced to live off of cat food instead of real tuna

and you like tuna

but eat cat food

so you're crabby

so no one calls

or talks to you face to face

because you don't go out much

except to buy more cat food

and your breath smell is so very bad

your breath will smell like false teeth and cat food

because no one reminds you to clean your dentures

because your spouse died

because that's what all spouses eventually do.

they die.

they leave you alone.

so you�re dumb - because your going to get sick

and get stuck in a nursing home

by the baby

because that's what babies do to their old and crabby sick parents

and you'll be about die

alone

because that's what old people do

who are sick

in nursing homes

and you'll say hello to the Reaper

�Hi Mr. Grim Reaper�

"you should have stayed in College, you were dumb to have ever left"

and then they�ll give you morphine

because you�re delirious

and talking to the Grim Reaper

and then your baby will come visit you

but you won�t recognize it as your baby

maybe just your already dead brother

and then you'll take a raspy breath

one that rattles in your rib cage

you won't think about how you always did what was expected

you won't think how you never challenged a single thing in your life

like all those preconceived notions

about how you're supposed to live your life

after you�ve graduated

you just won't take another breath

and you'll die.



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