Ain’t We Got Fun? – Pagosa Day by day Submit News Events & Video for Pagosa Springs Colorado

Every mornin’, each evenin’
Ain’t we obtained enjoyable?
Not a lot cash, oh, however honey
Ain’t we obtained enjoyable?…

— ‘Ain’t We Got Fun’, by Richard Whiting, Raymond Egan and Gus Kahn, 1921.

It doesn’t appear to be individuals are having enjoyable, recently.

Like the ICE police, for instance.  Having to put on these masks, after they arrest individuals?  I assumed we lastly removed all of the masks again in 2022… however there they’re, nonetheless carrying masks.

And the individuals they’re arresting and placing into detention camps?  I’m positive a detention camp can’t be a lot enjoyable.

Then there’s the individuals who may be named within the Epstein Files.  I guess they aren’t having enjoyable proper now.  Even after they’re enjoying golf.

There was a time when America was a enjoyable place, however not nowadays.  And individuals in all probability aren’t having enjoyable in different nations both, with all of the threatened tariffs.  Who can have enjoyable after they’re paying 15% tariffs?  Or 50% tariffs?  Not me, that’s for positive.

I’ve been considering recently about all of the enjoyable I had as a child, and questioning why issues have modified.

But it seems, sure individuals nonetheless know tips on how to have enjoyable, in any case.

For instance, for those who occur to have an outdated piece of plywood in your bed room, and a pair of faucet footwear, you possibly can faucet dance to the traditional tune, Ain’t We Got Fun.

Who knew you might have this a lot enjoyable in your bed room?

After watching this video, I went proper on-line to see how a lot faucet footwear value, and it seems you possibly can deck your self out for round $30.  But you can even spend over $100, if you wish to get fancy.  I even noticed one pair priced at $600.

I’d anticipate to have a lot of enjoyable if I spent $600 on faucet footwear.

I didn’t value the plywood, as a result of I believe I’ve a small piece out within the shed, which I used to be going to make use of to patch the opening in my again deck.  But faucet dancing seems like extra enjoyable.

When did we cease having enjoyable?  That’s the actual query.  And why?

I believe it has one thing to do with the Great Recession, again in 2008.  Although to be trustworthy, issues have been already going downhill earlier than that.  Like local weather change.  The scientists began warning us about local weather change again within the Nineteen Eighties — however they referred to as it ‘global warming’.  Now it’s not simply ‘warming’ however flooding and hurricanes and earthquakes and absolutely anything that occurs is due to local weather change.

Who can take into consideration having enjoyable, when simply driving your automobile to the grocery retailer is inflicting species to go extinct?

And don’t get me began on micro-plastics.  Plastic was once enjoyable.  Remember squirt weapons?  And Solo celebration cups?  And the free plastic luggage on the grocery shops?

It’s no surprise individuals are offended.

And that’s not hyperbole. People are actually offended nowadays.  Pretty a lot, from the time they get up within the morning till they end watching Fox News within the night. Nobody I do know is faucet dancing of their bed room.

It’s type of a chicken-and-egg scenario.

Are we offended as a result of we’ve stopped having enjoyable?  Or have we stopped having enjoyable, as a result of we’re offended?

Anyway, talking for myself, I went forward and ordered the $30 footwear.  They’re solely going to get dearer when the tariffs actually kick in.