"I was thinking that it was regrettable that your tastes have grown canalized so young.  There it was, raining soup - and you were caught without a spoon.  Even three days of what you were offered - urged on you! - would have been something to treasure when you reach my age.  And you, you young idiot, let jealousy chase you away!  Believe me, at your age I would have gone Eskimo in a big way, thankful that I had been given a free pass instead of having to attend church and study Martian to qualify.  I'm so vicariously vexed that my only consolation is the sour one that I know you will live to regret it.  Age does not bring wisdom, Ben, but it does give perspective... and the saddest perspective of all is to see far, far behind you, the temptations you've passed up.  I have such regrets myself but all of them are as nothing to the whopper of a regret I am happily certain you will suffer."