Have a great day and a remarkable Fall-filled weekend.
This question would probably be better served by Millennials and Generation Z. I, myself, as a member of the Baby Boom generation (Post WWII), am not really into podcasts, so-called reality TV, or the gaming generation that spends hours on end glued to their phones, gaming chat rooms, and the like. The rest is insight as to why!
Point to Ponder: I guess I officially graduated to be the old geezer’s generation, but by today’s standards, we were pretty bad ass. The get out and go generation and be home when the streetlights came on in the street where you lived. You wanted money, you worked for it mowing lawns, shoveling snow, or other odd jobs around the neighborhood. You probably collected glass bottles for cash and had a wagon for paper routes, or collected paper/metal to take to the junk shops that paid cents per pound. No computers, laptops, or otherwise, no cell phones, no central A/C, some homes still heated with coal, and had a coal room. When milk, Chips/Pretzels, and bread were delivered to the house, nothing came in plastic.
In our youth, aka the Wonder Years, most folks had black-and-white television with 4 channels—3, 6, 10, & 12—and remember when we got the UHF channels 17, 29, & 48. Remember when the National Anthem was played after 11:30 pm, and a test screen was the only thing on television until 6am the next morning. A time you rode bikes without helmets, went to the shore without interstate highways, and had no A/C. We used and knew what a skate key was for or how to make a boxcar (with a soda crate, some nails, 4-5 ft. 2″x4″, a broken pair of skates and some bottle caps), drank from a hose, or grabbed a piece of ice from the mailman on a hot summers day, played tackle without pads, only played hardball and with a “Pimple ball or Pinky” played – Stick ball, wire ball, sock-it-out, box ball or step ball. We slid down sliding boards in summer, you could fry an egg, and climbed hot metal monkey bars; if you fell, it was onto asphalt. Hey! Walk it off.
We built snow forts to have battles with the neighbors, actually knew, and had a transistor radio, Hi-Fi Stereo in a furniture-box cabinet —with the slip-on disc tube for 45’s. Tape Recorders, pre-tape cassette players, had unpleasant consequences for acting up both at home and in school, and actually knew the board of education and what the pointer was really used for. We had weekly chores before you could go out on Saturday morning, went to church on Sunday, and usually had to be home for the family dinner. A time before cassette tape decks, VHS, Beta, V-8 tapes, and many other modern conveniences.
However, your grandmothers weren’t like ours—they wore hot pants, tube tops, flares, or bell-bottom pants —and they got taken to the dance, the parking lot, or the prom in a pretty sweet ride. Check out the cars of the 50s, 60s, and early 70s, and still sang, danced, or parked to the best music to drive to the movies, dances, roller rinks, burger joints, or malt shops, drive-in movies, or just parking. Ahem! The only offense I made was jokingly saying I was from the old geezer group, as we live life, we will go to the grave kicking, dancing, laughing, and having fun until we run out of gas
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