The "Old Block" Tells All.

  For all of you parent-hating, adult-disrespecting, teenage miscreants out there, prepare to hate The Old Block for a few minutes. First of all, quit running to your room and slamming the door when a good parent gives you good advice. (Friends tell you what you want to hear; good parents tell you what you need to hear.) And besides, you do not own that door you are slamming in their faces; they do! Permission to enter? Only if you are a military superior, and I seriously doubt that! But leaving all of this drama aside, there is a much deeper reason for thanking your parents rather than disrespecting them... your very existence! Without those two specific people, the life you so selfishly live and hopefully sometimes enjoy could only have come from them. No other woman or man in the Galaxy could have produced the unique, sentient being known as you! According to my AI Assistant: The odds of a genetically identical person being born to completely different, unrelated parents are...