The other week i was walking near Accy college when i was approached by a (young) lad who asked "oh Mr,What was ya favorite fast food when ya was growing up?"
I politely informed him,"We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,it was all slow"
"C'mon man, Where did you eat?" he said with a puzzled look on his face.
I explained "It was a little place called home''.
I also informed him "my mum cooked every day of the week and when my Dad got home from work, we all sat at the dining room table together" and
"if I didn't like what she put on my plate,there was always the option of going to my bedroom till i did like it
(such a lonely place,I remember it well
).
He started asking other questions about my childhood but i said i was "really busy"(truth is, i don't think his system would of been able to handle my answers) For example, Pizzas were not delivered to our home,milk was.
Here are some of the other things I would have told him about my childhood (if I'd figured his system could have handled it):
1.All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers.
2.There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost anything offensive.
3.Trouser leg clips for bicycles with one gear (slow) and without chain guards.
4.TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.
5.The bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons
These memories are some of the best parts of my life.But my Question is this:
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, and a youngster asked you about your childhood (plus you thought there system could handle it),"what memories would you liked to of shared"?.....
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