Brings to mind a time when my son, now 27, was about 10. I was driving him and two or three of his friends somewhere in my not-so-hippy, family friendly mini-van. For whatever reason he said "you were a hippy, weren't you Dad?" To which I replied "Yes, and I still am. It's an attitude; a state of mind." His response: "Um ... OK, but without all the drugs and stuff, right?" All I could say was "right" while grumbling to myself "damn!"