Lessons learned along the way, filed for a later day. Some forgotten in required moment’s only to surface after their need. The list we take for granted is long.
The electric kettle that didn’t work, what do I do? I really wanted that cup of hot tea. Thank God for my husband who kindly reminded me, that my mother would probably have boiled a pot of water on top of the stove.
All bundled up, freezing to death, no heat in the jeep because it had a summer thermostat. Once inside at our destination, telling our story, here is the question, “Why didn’t you just put cardboard in front of the radiator”?
There was a time I wouldn’t have believed, I could put a plastic card in a hole in the wall and get money out.
Black and white T.V’s with rabbit ears, then to color with cable or satellite, then the advent of the remote control we can’t do without, all soon to be changed to digital.
Party line phones, operator operated. What was your ring, 1 long and 2 short! Black rotary dial phones became the in thing. Then along came the push button, colors and all. Then cordless and cell phones, blue ray and all. Satellite connections, free computer long distance, picture and all.
Cars of the day, collector classic’s today.
Camera’s with film, 120, 110 then 35 mm and Polaroid Instants, movie camera’s with reels played on projectors on white screens. Slide shows too, along the way. Then video camera’s with video tapes shown on VCR machines connected to TV’s. Digital camera’s for pictures and movies connected to computers for instant sharing with friends around the world. Cell phones that take pictures and movies too, with oodles of functions and that make phone calls too.
Wright brothers fly into the sky. Now airbuses taking us to where we have to be. Then the space travel and soon the moon landing.
We have seen so much. So many products we didn’t need, till the advertisers told us, we mustn’t do without.
Listen and learn from your ancestors well, for they have many stories, so much to tell.
By Lynn Keeling
Feb 10, 2009
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