Yesterday evening, while enjoying the sounds of the heavy rain and rumbling thunder,
Mom (ever the optimist) mused out loud, "I hope we don't lose power, I need to do laundry tonight."
Son replied, "That's okay. You can do it by hand."
To which Mom replied, with a stifled laugh and roll of her eyes, "You can do it by hand."
Son reflected, "Hmm. It must've been hard in the 70's."
Now, I know I joke about being old all the time. I don't really mean it. The 1970's are not that long gone. I will concede there are a few things we did not have in the 70's:
The internet.
CDs.
MP3s.
Cell phones.
Airline deregulation.
DVDs (you should have seen the mechanical monster of a VHS player we had!)
Digital cameras.
Laptop computers.
Go-gurt.
Yes, son, life was hard. But we most certainly did have washing machines.
And an Atari.
Lighthouses
5 years ago
3 comments:
And I'm going to guess that that monster VCR was a Betamax!!!
Oh so apropos! Did you see my post last night? My 80s washer finally bit the dust.
A few weeks ago, one of my kids asked me - seriously - if we had television when I was a kid. "Yes, honey, but we had to watch it by the light of our tallow lanterns."
chuckle chuckle :)
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