Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys (Unless They Want To)
I was visiting my goddaughter, and I ask her what she wants to be when she grows up.
Goddaughter: “I want to be everything, except for a bad guy or a cowboy.”
Me: “Why not a cowboy?”
Goddaughter: “I don’t know. I just don’t want to be a cowboy.”
Me: “But you want to be everything else? You’re going to be a plumber, and a cop, and a doctor? Isn’t that a lot of things to do at once?”
Goddaughter: “No, I’ll do them all.”
Mother: “It’s too bad she won’t be a cowboy or she could be all of the Village People at once.”
My goddaughter stayed true to her claim for my whole visit, repeatedly telling me she didn’t want to be a bad guy or a cowboy. Poor cowboys get no love.
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