Chuckle 2691

Chuckle 2691
(Lora S of Florence OR gets today's Chuckle thanks.)

(Also: Today in History, Word for the Day, Today’s Horoscope, Maxine, and
A Couple of Ideas to Keep You Out Of Trouble! )

If you’re in your seventies or eighties you’ll probably remember most of these.

'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 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 AM. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on featuring local people.

To be continued.

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A Couple of Ideas to Keep You Out Of Trouble! From Bev.

1. Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list.

3. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

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