[SOC] [OT] For All Those Born Before 1945

[Ian C. Purdie]

For All Those Born Before 1945 We are the survivors!!!

Consider the changes we have witnessed

We were born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, xerox, 
contact lenses, plastic, frisbees and the PILL. We were before radar, credit 
cards, split atoms, laser beams, and ball-point pens. Before pantyhose, 
dishwashers, clothes dryers, electric blankets, air conditioners, drip-dry 
clothes - and before man walked on the moon. We got married first - and then 
lived together. [How quaint can you be?]

We thought that fast food was what you ate at lent, a "Big Mac" was an oversized 
raincoat, and a "crumpet" we had for tea, a "chip" was a piece of wood or fried 
potato.

In our time, closets were for clothes, not for "coming out of". Bunnies were 
small rabbits and rabbits were not Volkswagons. Designer jeans were scheming 
girls named Jean or Jeanne out to entrap you; and having a meaningful 
relationship meant getting along with our cousins.

We thought outer space was the back of the Roxy Theatre. We were before 
house-husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers, and computer 
marriages. We were before day-care centers, group therapy and nursing homes. We 
never heard of FM radio, tape decks, electric typewriters, artificial hearts, 
word processors, yogurt, and guys wearing ear-rings. For us, time sharing meant 
togetherness - not computers or condominiums; hardware meant hardware as in 
nails, nuts and bolts, and software wasn't even a word!

In 1940, "Made in Japan" meant JUNK and the term "making out" referred to how 
you did on your exam. Pizzas, "MacDonald's" and instant coffee were unheard of. 
We hit the scene when there were 5 cent and 10 cent stores where you bought 
things for five and ten cents. You could buy ice cream cones for a nickel or a 
dime.  For one nickel you could ride a street car, make a phone call, buy a 
Pepsi, or enough stamps to mail one letter and two postcards.  You could buy a 
new Chevy Coupe for $600.. but who could afford one?  A pity too, because gas 
was 11 cents a gallon.

Pizza, Mc Donalds and instant coffee were unheard of. In our day, cigarette 
smoking was fashionable, GRASS was mown, COKE was a cold drink, a JOINT was meat 
you ate on Sunday. POT was something you cooked in. ROCK MUSIC was a 
grand-mother's lullaby and AIDS were helpers in the Principal's office. A GAY 
person was the life and soul of a party.

We were certainly not before the difference between the sexes was discovered, 
but we were surely before the sex change; we made do with what we had [literally].

And we were the last generation that was so dumb as to think you needed a 
husband to have a baby.

NO WONDER WE ARE SO CONFUSED AND THERE IS SUCH A GENERATION GAP TODAY!!!

72/73's

Ian C. Purdie
Budgewoi N.S.W. Australia - Co-ords S33°14', E151°34'
VK2TIP "I'll give ya the TIP mate" QRP-L #1978. SOC #171 FP#91
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