TULSA – According to reports, an area man is sincerely sure this whole place is going to hell in a handbasket, and he’ll be damned if he’s going to sit around and watch it happen.

Reached for comment sitting in an old musty recliner, Joseph Thackery, 72, was ardent that he just can’t understand what’s going on with the kids today, and that, in general, sometimes it really does make you wonder. He went on to suggest that recently, if it’s not one thing, it’s another, and that goddammit, something’s going to have to give.

Thackery’s comments stem from an incident earlier this week in which he called his adult daughter to complain that he just doesn’t even know anymore, and that I’ll tell you another thing, not on my watch, you don’t. Not on my watch.”

Thackery is scheduled to spend the next few days standing on his porch in his bathrobe and socks, muttering that in his day, you stood up straight, and looked a man in the eye.

Joseph Thackery, a veteran of the Korean War, thinks that’s not music, it’s just noise. – (AP Photo)

(L&B)

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