I was reading a piece about old times, I discovered how old I was
. The article mentioned the life I knew growing up. A real eye opener for me.  What is my favorite fast food when I was growing up? Answer: We didn't have fast food.
All food was slow. Seriously. We ate at home. Mom cooked every day and when Dad|
got home from work, we sat down together at the kitchen table to eat. My childhood: ----Some parents NEVER owned their own home.
( We owned ours because it was my father's mother's home.
Grandma went to live with her daughter.)
Some never wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, (I am not sure I knew what a golf course
was until I was a teen. ), never traveled out of the country, or had a credit card.
( My mom's only trip was when she came to America at 17 yrs. from Norway.)
The only card she had was a revolving charge card from Penny's Dept. Store. Oh!--- 45yrs after Mom came to America, Mom and I did get to go again to Norway. It was
among the best trips I ever took. The people there were just delightful and friendly. It is a
Beautiful place. My bicycle was old, used, and weighed about 40 lbs and had only One Speed.
We didn't have a T. V in our home until I was about 14yrs old. It was black and white
and the station went off the air at midnight after playing the national anthem
and a poem about God. I was 19 yrs. old before I tasted my first pizza. It was called "pizza pie."
It was my first lunch time lunch with that blank blank I married. No one delivered Pizza, but
you could have milk delivered. The only phone we got when I was about 10 or so, I think?, It was a party line
with the neighbors. It was in the living room. We at first said the number we wanted.
Later there was a rotary dial to use. We had to make sure no one was already
using the line before we could dial.
We washed clothes, wringer washer, cold water heated on kitchen
stove. Hung out to dry of course, coal run trains made it
necessary to redo clothes if a train came by while clothing dried. We had no bathroom. We took baths in the round clothes wash tub. I remember when I married the biggest thrill. No Out house!
There was and inside toilet. I thought I was rich! Of course we were not.
Just for Fun: A tricky starlet.
A starlet is seated next to a lawyer on a long flight. She craves her sleep, but he
keeps waking her up. " Let's play a trivia game," He suggests. " If I answer wrong.
I'll pay you $50. If you answer wrong, you owe me $5." The starlet agrees, and the lawyer goes first. "What"s the distance between the earth
and the moon?"
The starlet hands the lawyer $5. Now it's her turn.
"What goes up a mountain on three legs and comes down on four?"
The lawyer is dumbstruck. He scans the internet, flips through his pocket encyclopedia,
and texts every scientist he can find.
Now I am trying to think what it could be? I give up like the lawyer does,
NO dice. Hours later, he wakes up the
starlet, hands her $50, and asks , "So what's the answer? Without a word, she hands him $5 and goes back to sleep. I guess there is no answer? Can you think of one? Just wondering? Good Day until we meet again.
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