The Buckets by Greg Cravens for August 14, 2021

Tell the rest of it, how much did we make an hour?

… and the old people were complaining how they didn’t have any of those newfangled movies, candy was a penny, they’d already had a job since the age of four, people dressed right, music was music, and you should all be so lucky.

Plus ça change, etc.

. . . and the flag had 48 stars and STOP signs were yellow and pay phones required a nickel and cars had no seat belts and all airplanes had propellers and England had a king and nobody had ever climbed Mt. Everest and I read my comics in newspapers.

“What did dinosaurs taste like, Grampa?”

and cars ran on hay…

And people still hated each other because of their race or nationality, they used drugs, politicians lied through their teeth, crime was a problem, women and children were abused, and there was war in the Middle East and Asia.

No grandpa. You’ve never told us this before

Once or twice….

i walked 1.6 miles one way to school in sun, rain and snow from 5th grade to 8th grade — (googled it)

Pretty much every time you enter the room.

Ya THINK?

Just remember, If you don’t remember the past, you are doomed to repeat it. Much better to remember it and build on it.

If he is 70 then he was 12/13 in 1964 when the Beatles landed , by high school miniskirts/long hair on boys/LSD/weed/Vietnam by 18 Woodstock.

I remember being in awe when my grandma told me that when she was a kid, you could get a (bigger) Hershey bar for a nickel. then she explained how hard it was to get the nickel.

When he was their age Connie Francis was on the pop charts but The Clovers were recording a song that would make Cardi B blush.

Lost in Nostalgia….

No.

How old is Grandpa? Sounds more like a description of Grandpa’s father’s life.