Re: am i old?
Speaking as a septuagenarian I KNOW I am old. But I don’t care because I have one major advantage over younger folk. If I croak today I will have lived 70 years. If the younger people croaked today they will not have.
I was born in the last millennium.
I played 78’s on a wind-up gramophone as a kid.
Our wireless had an accumulator (battery) that had to be taken to a local shop to be charged once in a while.
We had gas lighting.
We had a coal fire to heat the whole house. But it was great for making toast with real bread that tasted like bread. It didn’t stay fresh for very long though. But that didn’t matter because the confectionary shop was a short walk away.
If we wanted hot water it had to be heated on the gas stove in kettles or saucepans.
In winter there was ice on the INSIDE of the bedroom windows.
The invention of the rubber hot water bottle was a boon to cold feet.
We didn’t have all the gadgets that there are today so we were forced to use our brains and imagination in play.
I’m glad that I lived then and I’m equally glad that I’m alive today to sample the technology around.
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