Darn, Im older than dirt!! LOL Someone asked the other day,,,,,,,,,,,,, What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up ? We didnt have fast food when I was growing up , I informed him, All the food was slow! Cmon, seriously. Where did you eat? It was a place called at home, I explained! Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, We sat down together at the dining room table, & if I didnt like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it . By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didnt tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. Here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it: Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, traveled 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 didnt 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 11, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God. It came back on the air at about 6 a.m. 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 didnt know werent already using the line. Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was & so was bread . All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers -- my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. He had to get up at 5 AM every morning . Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies! There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most 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 dont blame me if they bust a gut laughing . Growing up isnt what it used to be, is it ? MEMORIES : My Dad is cleaning out my grandmothers house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola 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 because we didnt have steam irons. Man, I am old . How many do you remember ? Head lights dimmer switches on the floor . Ignition switches on the dashboard . Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards . Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner . Using hand signals for cars without turn signals . Older Than Dirt Quiz : Count all the ones that you remember , NOT the ones you were told about! Ratings at the bottom . 1. Candy cigarettes 2. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes 3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles 4. Party lines on the telephones 5. Newsreels 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 3 channels !! If you had a TV!! 7. Peashooters 8. Howdy Doody 9. 45 RPM records 10. 78 rpm records 11. Hi-fi records 33 1/3 rpm 12. Metal ice trays with lever 13. Blue flashbulb 14. Cork popguns 15. Studebakers 16. Wash tub wringers If you remembered 0-3 = Youre still young If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older If you remembered 7-10 = Dont tell your age, & If you remembered 11-16 = Youre older than dirt !!! THATS ME!!! I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life � . Dont forget to pass this along !! Especially to all your really OLD friends
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 04:53:09 +0000
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