13 Things on Thursday my Kids Will Never Think About in Their Future

  1. Atlases.
  2. Faxes.
  3. Pay Phones.
  4. Film.
  5. Walkie Talkies.
  6. Libraries.
  7. Newspapers.
  8. Mail.
  9. Catalogues.
  10. Being lost.
  11. Cheap gas.
  12. Hippies.
  13. Osama Bin Laden.

About Christopher Garlington, Esq.

Christopher Garlington lives in Chicago in a standard two kids, wife, dog, corner-lot, two car, small business owner American dream package. He drives a 2003 Camry, sports a considerable notebook fetish, and smokes Arturo Fuente Partaga Maduros as often as possible. His stories have appeared in Chicago Parent; The Kentuckian, The Orlando Sentinel, The Daily Herald, Exito!, Florida, Orlando, Orlando Weekly, Catholic Digest, Retort, Another Realm, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, South Lit, and other magazines. He is the author of the infamous anti-parenting blog, Death By Children; co-author of The Beat Cop’s Guide to Chicago Eats; and co-hosts a weekly radio show based on that book. His monthly column for Chicago Parent, “My Funny Life,” was nominated for best humor article in the 2010 annual Parenting Publications of America Editorial and Design Awards.
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  • http://bluestalking.typepad.com Lisa Guidarini

    Dude! I’m sitting here at LACONI meeting & you have libraries on your list?! ;-) Only kidding. Kind of. But yeah, it’s a little scary in this profession. Don’t tell anyone I said that, because of course this is a private forum & no one will ever know. Hope to have you come out to our library soon. Bring samples from that weirdo Thai place. Not.

  • http://bluestalking.typepad.com Lisa Guidarini

    I commented but it disappeared! Strange forces at work. Try again… Just saw you @ LACONI, and you’re dooming libraries?! Kidding! Kind of… Hope to have you @ our library soon. Will be in touch!

  • http://bluestalking.typepad.com Lisa Guidarini

    Crap! I commented twice! Now three times!

  • http://www.facebook.com/christopher.garlington Christopher Garlington, Esq.

    I’m a humor writer! I joke. I keed. How’d I do?

  • http://www.facebook.com/christopher.garlington Christopher Garlington, Esq.

    Why I never . . . how did THAT get on there?

  • http://bluestalking.typepad.com Lisa Guidarini

    You did great! The whole Bangkok restaurant thing was priceless. Think I’ll avoid it…

    Oh, and belated happy birthday!

    P.S.: Your email confirmation of my comment(s) was subtle about one thing. Do you have a Facebook account?

    Curiously yours,

    Lisa

  • http://www.facebook.com/christopher.garlington Christopher Garlington, Esq.

    facebook.com/christopher.garlington and /thebeatcopsguide.