Chapter 493

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Older than dirt ... No doubt about it, remembered every last thing (at least memory is still relatively intact). But that’s not so bad, we never knew we were poor done by, thought life was quite wonderful, full of adventure and friends. Three cheers for our side!! Millie

All too true!...

Darn, I’m older than dirt!! Someone 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 I informed him.

C’mon seriously All the food was slow.’ Where did you eat?’ ‘It was a place called ‘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 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. 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 Levi’s, 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 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 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...