Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for May 25, 2021

I believe there was no electricity at my GRANDparents’ childhood homes.

In that little house?

Tony asked, about 7 hours ago

How’s your hearing?

Sensitive. You don’t have to shout.

What??? I hear what I want to hear!!!

My first five years were spent in a “little house on the prairie” in a small town, pop. 50. We had no electricity, no indoor plumbing and the water supply was the pump in the town square. Then we moved to a city, pop. 9,000 and I was amazed by all the conveniences we had been missing. TV TOO!

There has been electricity for an awfully long time on this ball of mud and rock.

Another smart alec discussion.

Carp….

I have assistance devices

He’s cruisin’ for a bruisin’

actually, my mother grew up on the prairie (Saskatchewan) and didn’t have electricity until they moved into Saskatoon. …so, not that long ago really

No….

60 years ago my brother asked my mother, “What was it like in Christ days?”.

Thinking back at some of the dumb questions I asked as a kid, this isn’t so bad. BTW, we did have a cabin by a lake up in Washington that didn’t have electricity until around 1960ish. We actually had an icebox and a wood stove.