Be Safe, Bud!

"Be safe, Bud!"

This was the familiar goodbye wish of my grandfather when I was in college. Every time I came home, we went through the same general ritual whenever I was preparing to depart. He would tell me to pull my car around behind his house where he had his own gas pump, he would fill my 1971 Ford Galaxie up with gas, and as I reached for my keys he would hold out his hand, shake mine, and say sheepishly, "Be safe, Bud!"

I've been thinking about that a lot here lately. I've been thinking about what he envisioned for me as I drove from my home in Kinston, North Carolina, to my college in South Carolina.

Undoubtedly, he knew that driving on the nation's interstates was at least mildly dangerous. As a matter of fact, for a while when I lived in South Carolina the state had the slogan, "Highways or Dieways? The Choice is Yours."

And undoubtedly he had in mind that I should "not take any wooden nickels." Be careful, in other words, about tourist traps or other uncouth individuals that might try to relieve me of my money. And criminals - back in this time, Michael Jordan's dad was killed while sleeping at a rest stop on some of the very highways that I would have been traveling at various times.

And then I think about all the things of which he would never have thought that are risks for us today.

Terrorism. Bioterrorism. Police corruption - including the eternal risk of tickets-for-revenue. False allegations. An economy wrecked by corrupt politicians.

Though he had lived through the Great Depression, he would certainly have never envisioned a time in which the very politicians who had designed a housing bubble as some ludicrous sacrifice to the gods of political correctness would then hold hearings in which they openly wondered, "Why is it that my constituents can no longer get credit extended by banks?" (I heard Christopher Dodd, perhaps the most corrupt designer of the housing meltdown of 2008, excepting Barney Frank, ask this very question this morning.)

And I envision my grandfather even today expressing his sincerest thought for me: "Be safe, Bud!"

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