Posted on 08/26/2021 2:47:32 AM PDT by sodpoodle
How Old Is Grandfather?
Stay with this -- the answer is at the end.
It may blow you away.
One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather about current events.
The grandson asked his grandfather what he thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general.
The Grandfather replied, "Well, let me think a minute, I was born before:
' television
' penicillin
' polio shots
' frozen foods
' Xerox
' contact lenses
' Frisbees and
' the pill
There were no:
' credit cards
' laser beams or
' ball-point pens
Man had not invented :
' pantyhose
' air conditioners
' dishwashers
' clothes dryers
' and the clothes were hung out to dry in the fresh air and
' space travel was only in Flash Gordon books.
Your Grandmother and I got married first,... and then lived together..
Every family had a father and a mother.
Until I was 25, I called every woman older than me, "mam". And after I turned 25, I still called policemen and every man with a title, "Sir".
We were before gay-rights, computer-dating, dual careers, daycare centers, and group therapy.
Our lives were governed by the Bible, good judgment, and common sense.
We were taught to know the difference between right and wrong and to stand up and take responsibility for our actions.
Serving your country was a privilege; living in this country was a bigger privilege...
We thought fast food was eating half a biscuit while running to catch the school bus.
Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with your cousins.
Draft dodgers were those who closed front doors as the evening breeze started.
Time-sharing meant time the family spent together in the evenings and weekends-not purchasing condominiums.
We never heard of FM radios, tape decks, CDs, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings.
We listened to Big Bands, Jack Benny, and the President's speeches on our radios.
And I don't ever remember any kid blowing his brains out listening to
Tommy Dorsey.
If you saw anything with 'Made in Japan ' on it, it was junk.
The term 'making out' referred to how you did on your school exam....
Pizza Hut, McDonald's, and instant coffee were unheard of.
We had 5 &10-cent stores where you could actually buy things for 5 and 10 cents. Ice-cream cones, phone calls, rides on a streetcar, and a Pepsi were all a nickel. And if you didn't want to splurge, you could spend your nickel on enough stamps to mail 1 letter and 2 postcards.
You could buy a new Ford Coupe for $600, ... but who could afford one?
Too bad, because gas was 11 cents a gallon.
In my day:
' "grass" was mowed,
' "coke" was a cold drink,
' "pot" was something your mother cooked in and
' "rock music" was your grandmother's lullaby.
' "Aids" were helpers in the Principal's office,
' "chip" meant a piece of wood,
' "hardware" was found in a hardware store and
' "software" wasn't even a word.
And we were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed a husband to have a baby.
How old do you think I am?
I bet you have this old man in mind...you are in for a shock!
Read on to see -- pretty scary if you think about it and pretty sad at the same time .
Are you ready ?????
This man would be 74 years old today.(2021)
GIVES YOU SOMETHING TO THINK
The younger generation would not understand.
I’m a bit younger than that, but have older siblings who talked about a lot of this, plus my own parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. I was amused about the ball point pen. I do remember wanting to learn to write cursive with a fountain pen, and then the ink got all over my fingers. The ballpoint pen was a nice invention.
When you get past average life expectancy, you are old. That is pretty objective.
I turn 70 tomorrow. This one hits home.
I see. Because I don’t look at the world with rose-colored nostalgia goggles on I must be stupid and acceptevil. They probably said the same thing to people who thought tractors would replace the horse and plow. All you have done is proven the adage that there’s no fool like an old fool.
I save old hymnals and books for “special music” at church. I was cruising through Amazon the other day and found that one of my books from 1966 is being sold new for $806! (Mine isn’t new.) I have boxes full, but I couldn’t part with them. They’re what I use when I’m relaxing at the piano.
I remember every bit of that. Of course I’m a bit older than the person they had in mind, so I SHOULD remember it. I’m constantly amazed by all I have seen & experienced in my lifetime so far & I plan to see a bit more before my time has ended. Some of it has been good, even VERY good, & some of it has been very bad. Based on the last several years of what I’ve observed, I’m sorry to say that the last several years have trended very badly. If you trust in the Lord, this will all turn out at some point in time for the VERY BEST.
I might add that during my time overseas in the service, that I remember cigarettes being $1.25 a carton. I didn’t smoke, so never took advantage of that one.
70 last March. What a long strange trip it’s been.
Speaking of wisdom, think about all of the things you were whining about in your other reply. Then think about who caused it and what their ages are.
I’m 66 and I remember a lot of that, but wasn’t born before television or penicillin...
Coke and candy bar were both a nickel, my grandmother would send me to the store to get her a pack of Camels, about a block away, I could get myself a Baby Ruth and I damn well better bring her the penny change.
Milk in glass bottles, either a cardboard stopper in a little indent, or a foil cap, delivered twice a week by the local milkman. When you went on vacation you had to leave him a note - no milk next week...
Tonka trucks and other toys actually made out of metal that would outlast a 4 year old boy...
Cooties...
Mr Potato head was a new thing...
Just Barbie and Ken and a couple of changes of clothes...if you wanted a doll house you had to build the thing. And you couldn’t get Barbie with anything but blonde hair.
Pledge of Allegiance every day at school, first thing, no exceptions...
GI Joe was a toy, not a movie...and a franchise...
McDonald’s and Burger King didn’t exist, nor 99% of the “fast food” places we see today, nor most of the franchise greasy spoons like Waffle House.
Burma Shave signs...
Stuckeys...
I liked those Marvel westerns, too. In addition to those two, I also liked Kid Colt.
About 10 or 15 years ago, Marvel rebooted The Rawhide Kid as, you guessed it, a "gay"character.
Tell that to Sherlock Holmes or the millions of ordinary citizens who got hooked on hard drugs that were in over the counter medicines
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional person.
There are millions who were addicted to laudanum, and other drugs, but Sherlock was most definitely not one of them.
In the late 1950’s we’d spend Saturday nights drinking beer and waiting for early morning to lay back and follow the milkman. Stay a block behind and run to porches looking for the treasure, chocolate milk. 😀
But Arthur Conan Doyle wasn't and he wrote about things he saw going on in his world, just like many modern authors. If I would have named Millie Jones or any other of the millions you mentioned you would have had no idea what I was talking about. Sherlock Holmes you recognized.
Years ago I went through a program (12-14 weeks, I can’t remember exactly) called ‘The Truth Project’.
In it, they used a quote from Sherlock Holmes to try to convince any skeptics of the fact that Jesus was a real live human being on this planet.
It’s typically bad form to use fictional people / things to back up facts.
And, if someone doesn’t know who Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is in this day and time on Free Republic, I doubt they’ll know who Sherlock Holmes is as well.
Heck, there’s British folk who think King Arthur was real.
You never had shooting teams in high school, AP classes are racist, you get to be searched by the popo every morning, "as a safety precaution." That enlisting is admitting that you are too stupid for a degree in gender studies. After all, getting up in the morning, for work, is what Proles do.
You've been hosed, and you don't even realize it, and think that being raped from the day you were born, by the Left, was a GOOD thing.
You think too much freedom is bad. Big Fed will protect you, all the days of your life. And we're the Unaware Generation, not fascinated by the latest bauble, because YOU think a $200,000 debt for a useless degree is the cost of life in the Modern Age. After all, tats are anti-gravity, and you need them because your memory isn't good enough.
We're the fools?
All you have done is proven the adage that there’s no fool like an old fool.
……. All you have done is proven the adage that there’s no fool like a GRUMPY old fool.
There fixed it for ya, oldtimer..
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