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01/17/19 Grif.Net – A Different Generation

01/17/19 Grif.Net – A Different Generation

[This is a repeat Grif.Net from January 1999 when =
I’d been serving as a college professor in =
Minnesota]

Talking to my class =
the other day, I mentioned a "happy fizzies’ =
party".  Needless to say, that reference was as out of place =
as Pinkie Lee, Howdy Doody, and Archie Bunker.  This is a whole new =
generation.

 

On the =
subject of becoming a dinosaur (or as my students affectionately refer =
to me as a "fossil"), ask YOURSELF if YOU remember . . =
.

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   Being sent to =
the drugstore to test vacuum tubes for the TV.

   

   When Kool-Aid was the only other =
drink for kids, other than milk and soda pops.

    

   When there were only 2 types of =
sneakers for boys, & girls wouldn’t wear them.

    

   When boys couldn’t wear anything =
but leather shoes to school.

    

   When it took five minutes for the =
TV to warm up.

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   When at least =
one of nearly everyone’s parents smoked.

   

   When all your friends got their =
hair cut at the kitchen table.

    

    When everyone’s mom was at =
home when the kids got there.

    

   When nobody owned a purebred =
dog.

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   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 every day.

   

   When you got your windshield =
cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking . . . for free, =
every time.

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   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.

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   When colleges =
threatened to give a student an "F" if they did not do the =
work or attend classes . . . and actually did!

 

And =
though memory is not as keen as it once was, I remember all these like =
it was yesterday.

 

~~

Dr Bob Griffin =

[email protected] www.grif.net =

"Jesus Knows Me, This I =
Love!"