The Good Old Days?

Are there good old days?  Depends on how you look at it.  It never seems so good at the time.  Don't forget. Someday THIS will be the good old days.  Here's my perspective.

• TV.  I remember when you had to turn on the TV well before the time you wanted to watch what was on so the TV could warm up.  The kids were the remote.  Hour long shows were much closer to actually being an hour long. If you missed a show, you missed it; no going back, no recording to see it later.  There were only 3 channels.  The picture was black and white and you just had to imagine the color.

• Cars. The AC was an open window.  You actually had some hope that you could fix your own car.  Cars got about 25 mpg - that hasn't changed much - but, a fill up was less than $5! Someone put gas in the car for you and washed your windshield and checked your oil and would check your tire air pressure if you wanted - all for FREE! If your tires needed air THAT was free.

• Microwaves didn't exist. Dinner will be ready in two hours.

• You drank the water from the kitchen faucet - it was FREE!

• Nobody recycled.  Look where that got us.

• When you left the house, you couldn't answer your phone, and we survived!  You couldn't call whenever you  wanted and just expect someone to answer.  You were out of touch most of the time.

• You were younger back then, but now you know more - or do you?

• Movies didn't come to you, you went to the movies.  It was only a couple of bucks and you got cartoons, not advertisement.  The popcorn didn't cost $15!

• Kids spent a lot of time out doors, doing stuff, exploring.  Your parents probably didn't know where you were for most of the day. 

• When you wanted to look something up you had to go to the library.  Finding what you wanted could be a long frustrating process.  Now, you can quickly find anything about anything and you can't trust any of it.

• Can you imagine what things will be like in 20, 30, 50 years?  No, you can't.  We didn't imagine this time very well 50 years ago.  We have things no one ever thought of then and we don't have things we imagined that we would.  Where's my flying car anyway?  My early retirement?  My 4 day work week?  We were wrong.

Good old days?  Some of it.