I got to thinking about that. I know as time progresses so does everything else. This is what today’s Me Monday is about; three things from my childhood kids today wouldn’t understand.
Number three:
The telephone.
In my time I have seen:
The Party Line
Only for a little while when I was very young.
The Pay Phone
It’s where Clark Kent changed into Superman, right?
The rotary phone
Nothing like getting that 9 and having to wait for the dial to go back to it’s place.
The wall phone
with the 25 ft cord where you could stretch it to the next room for privacy
The answering phone
Never liked that. I don’t like the way I sound on recordings. If there was a power surge or the power went out, you lost everything
The cell phone
Oh those first cell phones, big, awkward and so exciting, yet it was nothing but the phone and the voice mail
The Pager
How many did you drop in the toilet?
Each evolution of the cell phone from the basic flip phone to the latest technology
Number two:
Games
Tidily Winks (Never very good at these)
Jacks (they had to be the metal ones, not the plastic)
Red Rover
Kick the Can
Kick Ball
Funny story here. My very first time to play (I had no idea how to) I was playing with a group of older kids, I was running the bases and they kept yelling GO HOME! GO HOME! So, I started to cry and head home, to my house. They stopped me before I got far and explained it. It’s funny now, but man I felt bad!
Cats in the Cradle
Double Dutch (I am not coordinated to jump so many ropes at one time)
Dodge Ball
Tether Ball
Bike riding (without helmets) (Dang, I was good! I could and would jump my bike like the boys. Many many scraps, road rashes and bumps)
Go Fish
Old Maid
Using your imagination (I still do)
and finally three:
RESPECT[ri-spekt] noun
1.
a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in):
to differ in some respect.
2.
relation or reference:
inquiries with respect to a route.
3.
esteem for or a sense of the worth or excellence of a person, a personal quality or ability, or something considered as a manifestation of a personal quality or ability:
I have great respect for her judgment.
4.
deference to a right, privilege, privileged position, or someone or something considered to have certain rights or privileges; proper acceptance or courtesy; acknowledgment:
respect for a suspect’s right to counsel; to show respect for the flag; respect for the elderly.
5.
the condition of being esteemed or honored:
to be held in respect.
6.
respects, a formal expression or gesture of greeting, esteem, or friendship:
Give my respects to your parents.
7.
favor or partiality. As Tina Turner Stated…R-E-S-P-ECT! Respect We were taught not to back talk our elders we had rules to follow and if you didn’t, you had consequences The word NO If it was said, you didn’t fight it No meant NO Work for what you wanted If you wanted a game or a pair of shoes, you worked for it. Whether chores or a job, it’s how you paid for things Discipline Oh I can’t even tell you how many times I was grounded privileges were revoked When our kids get into there older years, what will they remember? What will they tell their kids? Will they still have something to tell them?
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
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