hensylee
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Marty and Bill (from Pensacola) might:
OLDER THAN DIRT, HUH?
"Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "what was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?"
"We didn't have fast food when I was growing up, all the food was slow." I informed him. "C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?" He asked. "It was a place called 'at home," I explained. "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room 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 kid 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 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 soccer practice, This was mostly because we had never heard of soccer and we never had a car.
I never had a bicycle and had to rent one that weighed around 50 lb, with only 1 speed (slow), for a very hard to get $2.00/hr.
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 14, but my friend's parents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white. Some neighbors, in the apartment house had TV's and some bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a magnifying lens taped to the front of their TVs to make the picture look larger.
I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie." I burned the roof of my mouth & the cheese slid off, swung down & plastered itself against my chin burning it also. It's still the best pizza I ever had. The name of the Pizzaria was Luigi's.
We really didn't have a car, ever! I learned to drive on my friends father's car. We had only 2 dads with cars.
I was married for almost 2 years before we had a car of our own.
I never had a telephone in my room and I never had a room either since I slept either on a cot in the hall or later on a pull out couch in the living room.
The only phone in the house was in my parents bedroom. It was not on a party line like others had where before dialing, 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 and in Glass bottles with the cream on the top.
All newspapers were delivered by boys & "all" boys delivered newspapers. I very briefly delivered newspapers, 6 days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents.
I had to get up at 4 AM every morning.
On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents & told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing & they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies.
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?
OLDER THAN DIRT, HUH?
"Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "what was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?"
"We didn't have fast food when I was growing up, all the food was slow." I informed him. "C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?" He asked. "It was a place called 'at home," I explained. "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room 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 kid 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 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 soccer practice, This was mostly because we had never heard of soccer and we never had a car.
I never had a bicycle and had to rent one that weighed around 50 lb, with only 1 speed (slow), for a very hard to get $2.00/hr.
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 14, but my friend's parents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white. Some neighbors, in the apartment house had TV's and some bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a magnifying lens taped to the front of their TVs to make the picture look larger.
I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie." I burned the roof of my mouth & the cheese slid off, swung down & plastered itself against my chin burning it also. It's still the best pizza I ever had. The name of the Pizzaria was Luigi's.
We really didn't have a car, ever! I learned to drive on my friends father's car. We had only 2 dads with cars.
I was married for almost 2 years before we had a car of our own.
I never had a telephone in my room and I never had a room either since I slept either on a cot in the hall or later on a pull out couch in the living room.
The only phone in the house was in my parents bedroom. It was not on a party line like others had where before dialing, 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 and in Glass bottles with the cream on the top.
All newspapers were delivered by boys & "all" boys delivered newspapers. I very briefly delivered newspapers, 6 days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents.
I had to get up at 4 AM every morning.
On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents & told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing & they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies.
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?
