Are you ancient?
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Bring back ANY memories ???
Someone asked the other day,
'What was your favourite 'fast food' when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.
'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously.. Where did you eat?'
'It was at a place called 'home,'' I explained.
'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down
together at the dining table and if I didn't like what she put on my plate,
I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to
suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I
had to have permission to leave the table.
But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if
I'd figured his system could have handled it :-
** Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf
course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card.
** My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably
50 pounds, and only had one speed (slow).
** We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10.
It was, of course, black and white and the station went off the air at 10.00pm,
after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air
at about 6 am! and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show
on, featuring local people ...
** I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line.
Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you
didn't know weren't already using the line.
** Pizzas were not delivered to our home ... But milk was.
** All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers
My brother delivered newspapers, seven days a week. He had to get up at
5 am every morning to do this.
* Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films.
There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for
everyone to enjoy viewing without profanity or lewd scenes or violence or almost
anything offensive.
** If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to
share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't
blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend :-
** My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and
he brought me an old Woodroofe's Lemonade bottle. In the bottle top was a
stopper with a bunch of holes in it ... I knew immediately what it was, but
my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker
or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing
board to 'sprinkle' clothes with water because we didn't have steam irons.
Man, I am old.
**How many do you remember?
**Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
**Ignition switches on the dashboard.
**Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
**Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
**Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.
Older Than Dirt Quiz :-
**Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom
1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke **boxes**
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreel before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there
until TV shows started again in the morning ... (There were only 2 channels [if
you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 rpm records
10. Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with levers
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age
If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient!**
I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best
parts of my life.
I wonder - why is it always that the first 20 years of our lives are more
memorable, cherished and form the basis of our nostalgic dreams, bring a
smile automatically ?
Don't forget to pass this along !!!
Especially to all your really **OLD** friends ... I just did !!!
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Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass.It's about learning
how to dance in the rain
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