| Re: Monday Chat 11.03.14 |
Subject: Re: Monday Chat 11.03.14 by TommyT-Bone on 2014/11/3 13:03:55 Quote:
Back in the olden days lots of people delivered direct to the door. The Fuller Brush Man, milkman, Electrolux vacuum cleaner man and host of repairmen. The neighborhood women frequently gossiped of each other's horology. Flashback .....Last night out of the blue I had a flashback of families filling up a station wagon with family and friends and heading to the beach or the lake. Some station wagons back then could accommodate 10 or more. It was a relatively low cost outing. I remember standing and watching as the car was getting ready to pull away and someone might yell "Do you want to come along?". A hasty request to mom and we were on our way. If I wasn't invited it often meant playing alone with my toys, a stick and a rock. One time as a kid, a friend and I caught a pigeon using the classic box, stick with a string method. We were about 5 or 6 y/olds. We had this brilliant idea to tie a string to the bird's foot so the bird would fly around in circles. We quickly found that a bird will not fly in circles when tethered to a string. It wasn't pretty. |
