WE ARE SURVIVORS !!!!!.... CONSIDER THE CHANGES WE HAVE WITNESSED
We were born before television, before penicillin, before polio shots, before frozen foods, Xerox, plastic, contact lenses, Frisbees and the pill. We were before radar, credit cards, split atoms, laser beams and ball point pens. Before pantyhose, dishwashers, clothes dryers, electric blankets, air conditioners, drip dry clothes... and before man walked on the moon.
We got married first and then lived together. How quaint can you be? In our time closets were for clothes, not for "coming out of". Bunnies were small rabbits, and rabbits were not Volkswagons. Designer jeans were scheming girls named Jean, and we didn't know about Designer Drugs, and having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with our cousins.
We thought fast food was what you ate during Lent. We were before house husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers and commuter marriages. We were before day care centers, group therapy and nursing homes. We never heard of FM radio, tape decks, CD's, electronic typewriters, artificial hearts, word processors, computers, yogurt and guys wearing earrings. For us, time-sharing meant togetherness... not computers and condominiums. A chip meant a piece of wood. Hardware meant hardware and software wasn't even a word.
Back then, " Made in Japan" meant junk and the term "Making out" referred to how you did on your exam. Pizzas, McDonalds and instant coffee were unheard of. We hit the scene where there were 5 and 10 cent stores, where you bought things for five and ten cents. For one nickel you could ride a streetcar, make a phone call, buy a Pepsi or enough stamps to mail one letter or two postcards. You could buy a new Chevy coupe for $600 ... but who could afford one? A pity too, because gas was 11 cents a gallon!
In our day, GRASS was mowed, COKE was a cold drink and POT was something you cooked in. ROCK MUSIC was a Grandma's lullaby and AIDS were helpers in the Principal's office. We were certainly not before the difference between the sexes was discovered, but we were surely before the sex change. We made do with what we had. And we were the last generation that was so dumb as to think you needed a husband to have a baby.
No wonder we were so confused and there is such a generation gap today.
But, WE SURVIVED!!! What better reason to celebrate?
Author Unknown.............
GETTING OLD!!!!
YOU'RE GETTING OLDER IF YOU CAN REMEMBER.....
Being sent to the drugstore to test vacuum tubes for the TV or radio.
When Kool-Aid was the only other drink for kids, other than milk and sodas.
When boys couldn't wear anything but leather shoes to school.
When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up.
When all your friends got their hair cut at the kitchen table.
When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there.
When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.
When a dime was a decent allowance, and a quarter a huge bonus.
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then.
When your mom wore nylons that came in two pieces.
When all your teachers wore either neckties or had their hair done, everyday.
When Bible reading and prayer started every school day.
When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, for free, every time. And you got trading stamps to boot!
When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box.
When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him, or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.
When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed-and did!
When women were called, "Mrs. John Smith," instead of their own name.
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home.
God grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference... Now that I'm older....here's what I've discovered:
I STARTED out with nothing....I still have most of it.
When did my wild oats turn to prunes and All Bran?
I finally got my head together, now my body is falling apart.
Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.
All reports are in. Life is now officially unfair.
If all is not lost, where is it?
It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser.
The first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging.
I went to school to become a wit, only got halfway through..
It was all so different before everything changed.
Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
A day without sunshine is like a day in Seattle.
I wish the buck stopped here. I could use a few...
Kids in the back seat cause accidents; accidents in the back seat
cause
kids.
It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at
the end.
It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.
The only time the world beats a path to your door is if you're in the
bathroom.
If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would have put them on my knees.
When you're finally holding all the cards, why does everyone else
decide
to play chess?
Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
It's not hard to meet expenses ... they're everywhere!
---Provided by Dr. Lee Thompson
HERE ARE A FEW THINGS THAT I THINK I KNOW...
Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to
wear out, fall out, or spread out.
There are three signs of old age. The first is your loss of memory. The
other two I forget.
You're getting old when you don't care where your spouse goes, just,as
long
as you don't have to go along.
> Middle age is when work is a lot less fun - and fun a lot more work.
Statistics show that at the age of seventy, there are five women to every
man. Isn't that the darndest time for a guy to get those odds?
You know you're getting on in years when the girls at the office start
confiding in you.
Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.
A man has reached middle age when he is cautioned to slow down by his
doctor instead of by the police.
Middle age is having a choice of two temptations and choosing the one that
will get you home earlier.
You know you're into middle age when you realize that caution is the only
thing you care to exercise.
Middle age is when you have stopped growing at both ends and have begun to
grow in the middle.
By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go
anywhere.
Of course I'm against sin; I'm against anything that I'm too old to enjoy.
Billy Graham has described heaven as a family reunion that never ends.
What must hell possibly be like? Home videos of the same reunion?
At my age, "getting a little action" means I don't need to take a
laxative.
Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid
you.
The aging process could be slowed down if it had to work its way through
Congress.
You're getting old when getting lucky means you find your car in the
parking lot.
You're getting old when you're sitting in a rocker and you can't get it
started.
You're getting old when you wake up with that morning-after feeling, and
> you didn't do anything the night before.
The cardiologist's diet: if it tastes good, spit it out.
Doctor to patient: I have good news and bad news: the good news is that
you are not a hypochondriac.
It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.
You know you're getting old when you stop buying green bananas.
Last Will and Testament: Being of sound mind, I spent all my money.
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