by Apache1 » Sun Nov 08, 2009 10:41 am
My Generation (was not only a song by The Who) but people who were born before Television, before frozen foods, contact lenses, and the pill. we were born before Credit Cards, Split Atoms, Laser Beams and Ball point pens - before Dish Washers - Tumble Dryers - Electric Blankets - Air Conditioners and Tights. We used to play with marbles - Cigarette Cards and Hula Hoops (now making a come back) the best way to earn pocket money was a paper round, because your mum & dad could not afford to give you any. -- Saturday afternoons were spent at the pictures with Hoppalong Cassidy - Kit Carson - Roy Rogers and Flash Gordon, all for "one shilling" We thought that Fast Food was something you ate quickly
a "Big Mac" was an oversize raincoat and Crumpet was a "pikelet" that you toasted - we existed before House Husbands - Computer Dating - Dual Careers, We had never heard of FM radio -CDs - Word Processors - Yoghurt - Pizzas - Mobile Phones - or Men wearing Earrings. For us a "Chip" was a piece of wood or a fried potato you could buy a bag of sugar for 3d (£-s-d) "Hardware" meant nut's and bolt's and software wasn't a word. The term "Making Out" referred to how you did in your exams and a "Stud" was what you fastened your collar with. "Going All the Way" meant staying on the bus to the depot....
In our day cigarette smoking was fashionable (but stupid) "Grass" was mown "Coke" was kept in the coal shed and a "Joint" was the piece of meat you ate on Sundays...............,
The kids nowadays are so unlucky that they will never experience what we did in our youth, they will never have to get up and rake the ashes from last nights
fire before you can light another. They will miss the discipline and respect that we had that made us what we are, ---------- Grumpy Old Men.
John