A little pick-me-up as dads in the USA celebrate Father's day...

Fast Food (a Blast From The Past!)
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"Hey Dad" one of my kids asked the other day"What was your favourite 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. "Grandma cooked every day
and when Grandpa 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 wore Levis set foot on a golf
Course travelled 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 AND 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 14 It was of course black and white but they bought a piece
of coloured plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue like the
sky and the bottom third was green like grass . The middle third was red.
It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to the front of
the TV to make the picture look larger.

I was 17 before I tasted my first pizza it was called "pizza pie." When I
bit into it I burned the roof of my mouth and tongue and the cheese slid
Off swung down plastered itself against my chin and burned that too.

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. I delivered a newspaper six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper of which I
got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday I
had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favourite customers were
the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favourite 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. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing
and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French
movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see them.

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?

Cheers!

... The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
--- MultiMail/Linux v0.52
* Origin: Carnage - risen from the dead now on SBBS (21:4/107)

A little pick-me-up as dads in the USA celebrate Father's day...

Fast Food (a Blast From The Past!)
----------------------------------
"Hey Dad" one of my kids asked the other day"What was your favourite 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. "Grandma cooked every day
and when Grandpa 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 wore Levis set foot on a golf
Course travelled 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 AND 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 14 It was of course black and white but they bought a piece
of coloured plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue like the
sky and the bottom third was green like grass . The middle third was red.
It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to the front of
the TV to make the picture look larger.

I was 17 before I tasted my first pizza it was called "pizza pie." When I
bit into it I burned the roof of my mouth and tongue and the cheese slid
Off swung down plastered itself against my chin and burned that too.

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. I delivered a newspaper six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper of which I
got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday I
had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favourite customers were
the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favourite 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. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing
and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French
movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see them.

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?

Cheers!

... The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
--- MultiMail/Linux v0.52
* Origin: Carnage - risen from the dead now on SBBS (21:4/107)