03/28/2024
Thoughts While Shaving
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Did you know??? 47% of households in the US have cell telephone service only.  Just one more change occurring in our lifetime.  That number is apparently climbing daily.  There will always be landlines…for  technically challenged senior citizens and some of the younger folks as well.

Few auto and truck tires are now patched, they are plugged.

Following that line of thought……

Remember how bananas and cabbage were weighed in the produce department of an independently owned grocery store, just a few years ago. You could purchase 50 cents worth of bologna in the meat department, a dollar’s worth of gas (about 4 gallons) at the country store and an attendant would pump the gas and wash the windshield.

Who ever heard of baiting deer fields with corn?….Heck, the four legged animals could find the corn field and the garden with tender, tasty, fresh veggies.

Remember picking cotton and weighing the results at the end of the day in the field, stacking peanuts, suckering tobacco, using a peanut weeder to keep grass out of the ‘young’ corn field?  A mule or horse pulled a drag through the tobacco patch while 3 or 4 ‘humans’ cropped/picked the leaves off the stalk?  Neighbors swapping (helping each other) harvest their crops, particularly tobacco.

Few yards (dirt area around the house) had grass and they were swept by hand.  You could tell if anyone had stopped by while the family was away for a visit….could tell by the size of the foot or the tread on a vehicle, and there were very few vehicles.

There were no TV’s, a few AM radio stations that snapped, crackled and popped, very few tractors, actually a mule and wagon were the most common mode of transportation.  An orange (onion bag) or green (cabbage) ‘net’ type bag was what many used to deliver their fatback, flour, lard and other necessities from the store to their home on Saturday.

Those were the days my friend, I thought they would never end….but they did…..and the changes continue.  Now, we carry our phones with us wherever we go.  Only the Dick Tracy comic strip writer  could imagine such a time.

I just got back from a pleasure trip.  I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

We always hold hands.  If I let her go, she shops.

If you are willing to admit you are wrong when your are wrong, you are all right.

 

robert g hester

rgh4612@gmail.com

910-876-2322

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