LOL I am older than dirt! LOL
Mary Overton 816-457-0597 >________________________________ > From: Joan Croft <[email protected]> >To: Joan Croft <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 2:04 PM >Subject: [Chihuahuas] FW: OLDER THAN DIRT > > > > >.. THOUGHT YOU MIGHT ENJOY THIS ... >>> >>>'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. >>> >>> >>>'All the food was slow.' >>>'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?' >>> >>> >>>'It was a place called 'athome,'' I explained. ! >>> >>>'Mom cooked every day and when Dad 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, never woreLevis, never set foot on >>>a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card. >>> >>> >>>In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The >>>card was good only atSears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears &Roebuck. >>>Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died. >>> >>>My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we >>>never had heard of soccer. >>> >>>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 19. >>>It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at >>>midnight, 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 was 21 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.' When I >>>bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung >>>down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the >>>best pizza I ever had. >>> >>>I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the >>>living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, 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. >>> >>>All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --my >>>brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week.. It cost 7 cents a paper, of >>>which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6AM every morning. >>> >>>On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite >>>customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the >>>change. His 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. >>>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 don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing. >>> >>>Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it? >>> >>>MEMORIES from a friend : >>> >>>My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's 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 didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old. >>> >>>How many do you remember? >>> >>>Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. >>> >>>Ignition switches on the dashboard. >>> >>>Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall. >>> >>>Real ice boxes. >>> >>>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. Blackjack chewing gum >>>2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water >>>3. Candy cigarettes >>>4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles >>>5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes >>>6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers >>>7. Party lineson the telephone >>>8 Newsreels before the movie >>>9. P.F. Flyers >>>10. Butch wax >>>11.. 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...) >>> >>>12. Peashooters >>>13. Howdy Doody >>>14. 45 RPM records >>>15.S&H greenstamps >>>16. Hi-fi's >>>17. Metal ice trays with lever >>>18. Mimeograph paper >>>19. Blue flashbulb >>>20. Packards >>>21. Roller skate keys >>>22.Cork popguns >>>23. Drive-ins >>>24. Studebakers >>>25. Wash tub wringers >>> >>>If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young >>>If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older >>>If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age, >>>If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt! >>> >>>I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of >>>my life. >>> >>>Don't forget to pass this along!! >>>Especially to all your really OLD friends.... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>-- >> >
