"What is this TURNY thing?"
Ha! I love it. We just went through that with my 8 year old a few weeks
back when i bought an older Ford 1 ton dually crew cab, he got in the
back seat starring at the window crank with a perplexed look on his face
and finally asked the same question .
I can remember filling out a census form a number of years back and
where it said "number of bathrooms in the house" I had to put 0. I
lived way out in the sticks, about 2.5 miles from my nearest neighbor
and had *running water* ( that's where when you need water, you grab
the bucket with the rope on it and*run* about 400 feet to the well :-)
That was a real blast when fetching water for a morning bath with snow
on the ground.
It's amazing how much gets taken for granted these days.
---------Robert
Christopher McCann wrote:
on the other extreme: my four year old, when in a 1991 Toyota Tercel asked (with hand on
the window crank), "What is this TURNY thing?"
My Gramma (SW PA, NW W.Va) chewed road tar for gum, had their stove repossesed by Sears & Roebuck (while in use!), and her brothers pushed coal off of moving trains, hopped off and collected it. One of the brothers is now a millionaire but that's becuase he worked four jobs his whole life and never spent a penny. The depression certainly created a mindset in that generation and it is unfortunately lost in my generation. My grandfather can BARELY pass a TV on the side of the road without pulling the copper coil out of the back (and he is by no means poor)...just what happens to people who nearly starve to death.
Chris
Harry Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When you were born, I was a Marine
without indoor plumbing in Korea.
Growing up, we moved into a house with plumbing when I was in the 2nd grade.
Harry Watkins
Newton, MS
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----- Original Message -----
From: "LT Don"
You didn't even have indoor plumbing, did you? I can still remember homes
with outhouses, and I was born in the early 50s.
On 12/3/05, Harry Watkins wrote:
Tom Wrote"
"I am sure folks older than me can remember much harder times
still than the premadonna stuff I am spewing."
Do any of you remember when all headlights were required to have the top
half of the lens blacked out?
We probably had it bad but didn't realize it. Many families did not
have
a
car, the ones that did shared.
Harry Watkins
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