Nostalgia

I didn't write this, I got it in a email, but it applies to me as much as the person who did write it:

'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 'at home,'' 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  wore Levis,  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  at Sears  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  13.

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 18  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.