Mustn't Tell My Age

Thanks, Ginger!



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


I was 21 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.'

When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung
  down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the
  best pizza I ever had.


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 --
  my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.

On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite 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. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for
  everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything
offensive.


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.

MEMORIES
  from a friend :

My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.

How many do you remember?

Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.

Ignition switches on the dashboard.

Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.

Real ice boxes.

Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.

Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.

Using hand signals for cars without turn signals..

Older Than Dirt Quiz :

Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.

Ratings at the bottom.

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines on the telephone
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10.Butch wax
11.TV test patterns that came on at night after the last
  show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.
(there were only 3 channels... [if
  you were fortunate])
12.Peashooters
13.Howdy Doody
14.45 RPM records
15.S&H greenstamps
16.Hi-fi's
17.Metal ice trays with lever
18.Mimeograph paper
19.Blue flashbulbs
20.Packards
21.Roller skate keys
22.Cork popguns
23.Drive-in theaters
24.Studebakers
25.Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt!

WHAT HAPPENS IN HEAVEN WHEN WE PRAY?

Thank you Beaulah
WHAT  HAPPENS IN HEAVEN WHEN WE  PRAY?  

  I dreamt  that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing  me around. We walked side-by-side inside a large  workroom filled with angels. My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said,  ' This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are  received.' 

I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the  world.  

Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached  the second section.    

The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging  and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and  blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for  them." I noticed again how busy it was there.  There were many angels working hard at that  station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth.    

Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we  stopped at the door of a very small station. To  my great surprise, only one angel was seated  there, idly doing nothing. "This is the  Acknowledgment Section," my angel friend  quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed.   'How is it that there is no work going on  here? ' I asked.    

"So sad," the angel sighed.  "After people  receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments."  

"How  does one acknowledge God's blessings? " I  asked.    

"Simple,"  the angel answered. "Just say, 'Thank you,  Lord.'"  

"What  blessings should they acknowledge?"  I  asked.    

"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have  money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare  change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of  the world's wealthy. "  

"And if  you get this on your own computer, you are part  of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity."  

"If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day. "    

"If you  have never experienced the fear in battle, the  loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of  torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 700 million people in the world."  

"If you can attend a church without the fear of  harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world."  
   
"If your parents are still alive and still married, you are very rare."  

"If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're unique to all those in doubt and  despair."

"OK,  what now? How can I start?" 

If you can read this message, you are more blessed  than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all. 

Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you care to, pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are.  

ATTN:   Acknowledge Dept.  
"Thank you Lord, for this message and for giving me so many daily blessings - for everything mentioned above, for my family and my friends, and for thy Son, my Savior, Redeemer, and Friend. "   

some positive economic thoughts

Some thoughts from my educated and smart friend Lynda P - whose economic reflections are often somewhat alarming - words of hope?

A rambling look at my economic brain in action.

I find it interesting that the dollar is so high compared to the rest of the world. The Libyan dinar (.80), Behrain (2.65), Kawaiti Dinar (3.55), Jordanian Dinar (1.41), Omani Rial (2.59), Turkish Lira (.64), British Pound (1.56), Bulgarian Lev (.68), The Euro (1.33), Latvian Lats (1.88), Australian Dollar (1.01), Brunei (.77), Fiji (.54), New Zealand (.77), Singapore (.78), Bahamian dollar (1.01), Bermudan dollar (.99), Brazil (.60), Canada (1.01), Cayman Islands (1.21), Cuban Peso (1.00), Netherlands (.55), Panama (1.00).  All other countries are under .50 to the dollar and most are under .10 per dollar.  I can see the reduction of the dollar giving us massive inflation in our imports but do not see how we can easily fall so far as to be worthless if the Philippines at .02 per dollar is still a functioning money.  Granted, the Philippines is a third world where 40% of its citizens make under $2 per day and it does not have an entitlement class.

Perhaps the problem isn’t the dollar in comparison but the dollar compared to the dollar debts.  No matter how we rate compared to other countries-if we are bankrupt, we are bankrupt.  But . . . that should show in the exchange rates.  Does that mean we are all bankrupt? or at least almost all of us?

As the dollar falls we become a great tourist destination.  We are still one of the safest places in the world to visit.  We are a society of servers (now doesn’t that sound 3^rd world?) in a service jobs economy.  Our hotels are some of the cheapest in the world.  Our natural beauties are unique and plentiful and well preserved in a world so filled with people and destroyed nature.  The lowering of the dollar is good for what we have to offer since we no longer have manufacturing.  It will hurt our gas prices-but they are so far below what the rest of the traveling world is used to paying that a significant rise will mean little to them. I saw this personally when we went to Disneyland last year amidst crowds of Australians who said it was cheaper to fly here and do things here then stay home and do them in Australia.

If the government can refrain from adding huge taxes and regulations, the lowering dollar will make our exports more attractive and should jump start new manufacturing (so long as it doesn’t price out the core production commodities). 

Compared to most of the rest of the world, it seems we have a long way we can fall before it kills the dollar-but the fall will create a significant change in our standard of living.  In our spoiled society that will probably not be accepted without unrest, particularly among the “entitled” whose government checks will soon only cover food and housing instead of all the liquor, drugs, televisions, cable, cell phones, etc that they have been spoiled with from other’s labors.  Really, the biggest danger to our society is the large number of people who expect toys and pleasures as well as food and housing for doing absolutely nothing.

The reality is that it would do us all good to have less material things-the excess of which can be seen around most the waists of America (including my own)  We could do with less of our exorbitantly sized homes, bells and whistles vehicles, fancy furniture, endless gadgets, endless tech, etc.  Think how green that change would be to our nation and others.  Not only would our trade deficit be reduced dramatically, we would have less in the dump because we would buy less but better while using things longer, less pollution because we would produce less and drive less, and perhaps more time with our families planting our back yards with food instead of just looking at the thirsty green grass. 

If the government can just get out of the way with taxes and regulations, this could actually be a very good thing.

Do you have an opposing opinion?  See something I am missing?

I know, I know.  Get up off the floor now.  I actually said something good about the current economic situation.

Written by a 90 year old

 Thanks for sharing, Lori.   



Written by a 90 year old

     This is something we should all read at least once a week!!!!!
Make sure you read to the end!!!!!!

     Written by Regina Brett , 90 years old, of the Plain Dealer,
Cleveland , Ohio .

     "To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life
taught me. It is the most requested column I've ever written.

     My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

     1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
     2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
     3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
     4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends
and parents will. Stay in touch.
     5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
     6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
     7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
     8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
     9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
     10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
     11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
     12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
     13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their
journey is all about.
     14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
     15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry;
God never blinks.
     16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
     17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
     18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
     19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second
one is up to you and no one else.
     20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take
no for an answer.
     21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy
lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
     22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
     23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
     24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
     25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
     26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five
years, will this matter?'
     27. Always choose life.
     28. Forgive everyone everything.
     29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
     30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
     31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
     32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
     33. Believe in miracles.
     34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything
you did or didn't do.
     35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
     36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
     37. Your children get only one childhood.
     38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
     39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
     40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone
else's, we'd grab ours back.
     41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
     42. The best is yet to come...
     43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
     44. Yield..
     45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.."