[ccmay]

It seems like each generation talks about how easy or how lost the younger generations have it.

Hear hear.

My great grandfather laughed at my grandfather for not knowing how to drive a horse and buggy. My grandfather laughed at my dad for not knowing how to hand-crank a Model T. My dad laughed at me for not knowing how to drive with a manual transmission. I laugh at my kids for not being able to navigate without a GPS. My kids will laugh at my grandkids, as they fly around in their automated jet-pods, for not knowing how to drive a car with a steering wheel.

Hindsight is always, always, always obscured by rose-colored glasses. The future always, always, always looks grim to cranky old people.

-ccm

[frannie]

I'm not a cranky old person, just one that has lived and known six generations. From my grand parents to my great grand child.

There is a change. Since my husband traveled much, I learned how to fix minor things,since mu father deserted my mother with 3 children and pregnant with the fourth I can't say what my father could do.

I will tell you about a woman, my mother, who kept these four children together with out food stamps, utility help, rent subsidies,Medicaid or any hand outs by the tax payers. The government doesn't have any money except what she takes from the tax payers. This was through the GREAT depression and some of the mothers who have all the help in the world can't spend four hours a month in neighborhood tasks. We lived as well as those on WPA.
And could go any place with out fear.

I am well enough and able enough to still survive if I have to.
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My sons were all expected to help. The worked our garden, cut the grass, an acre,and before we could afford house help were taught how to do house work.


Just thinking.

Frannie

[Old Professer]

Cranky old people aren't born that way.