How old is Grandpa?

[Old]

 

How Old Is Grandpa?

 

Stay with this -- the answer is at the end.  It may blow you away. 

 

One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather about current events. The grandson asked his grandfather what he thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general.

 

The Grandfather replied, "Well, let me think a minute, I was born before: 

 

'     television 

'     penicillin 

'     polio shots 

'     frozen foods 

'     Xerox 

'     contact lenses 

'     Frisbees and 

'     the pill

 

There were no:

 

'     credit cards 

'     laser beams or 

'     ball-point pens

 

Man had not invented:

 

'     pantyhose 

'     air conditioners 

'     dishwashers 

'     clothes dryers 

'     and the clothes were hung out to dry in the fresh air and

'     space travel was only in Flash Gordon books.

 

Your Grandmother and I got married first, and then lived together. 

 

Every family had a father and a mother. Until I was 25, I called every woman older than me, "mam". And, after I turned 25, I still called policemen and every man with a title, "Sir".

 

We were before gay-rights, computer-dating, dual careers, daycare centers, and group therapy. 

 

Our lives were governed by the Bible, good judgment, and common sense. We were taught to know the difference between right and wrong and to stand up and take responsibility for our actions. 

 

We thought fast food was eating half a biscuit while running to catch the school bus. 

 

Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with your cousins. 

 

Draft dodgers were those who closed front doors as the evening breeze started. 

 

Time-sharing meant time the family spent together in the evenings and weekends-not purchasing condominiums.

 

We never heard of FM radios, tape decks, CDs, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings. 

 

We listened to Big Bands, Jack Benny, and the President's speeches on our radios. And, I don't ever remember any kid blowing his brains out listening to Tommy Dorsey. 

 

If you saw anything with 'Made in Japan ' on it, it was junk. 

 

The term 'making out' referred to how you did on your school exam. 

 

Pizza Hut, McDonald's and instant coffee were unheard of. 

 

We had 5 & 10-cent stores where you could actually buy things for 5 and 10 cents. Ice-cream cones, phone calls, rides on a streetcar and a Pepsi were all a nickel. And, if you didn't want to splurge, you could spend your nickel on enough stamps to mail 1 letter and 2 postcards. 

 

You could buy a new Ford Coupe for $600, ...but who could afford one? Too bad, because gas was 11 cents a gallon.

 

In my day:

'     "grass" was mowed, 

'     "coke" was a cold drink, 

'     "pot" was something your mother cooked in and 

'     "rock music" was your grandmother's lullaby.

'     "Aids" were helpers in the Principal's office, 

'     "chip" meant a piece of wood, 

'     "hardware" was found in a hardware store and 

'     "software" wasn't even a word.

 

And, we were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed a husband to have a baby.

 

How old do you think I am? 

 

I bet you have this old man in mind...you are in for a shock! 

 

Read on to see -- pretty scary if you think about it and pretty sad at the same time.

 

Are you ... ready ?????   

 

This man would be 75 years old today (2021).

 

GIVES YOU SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT... PASS THIS ON TO THE OLD ONES.  The younger generation would not understand... 

 

 

I saw this on face book. In reality the original writer errored on a number of items, he is probably too young to really know.  

Can you pick out his errors?

[EccentricM]

14 hours ago, Old said:

 

'     television 

'     penicillin 

'     polio shots

'     Frisbees

 

'     credit cards

'     ball-point pens (?)

 

'     pantyhose 

 

 

 

Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with your cousins. 

 

Draft dodgers were those who closed front doors as the evening breeze started. 

 

We never heard of FM radios, yogurt (?)

 

If you saw anything with 'Made in Japan ' on it, it was junk. (?)

 

We thought fast food was eating half a biscuit while running to catch the school bus. Pizza Hut, McDonald's and instant coffee were unheard of. 

 

You could buy a new Ford Coupe for $600, ...but who could afford one? Too bad, because gas was 11 cents a gallon.

 

In my day:

 

'     "rock music" was your grandmother's lullaby. (?)

 

 

These are the things I think are wrong. Without doing any research.

 

If he's 75, he'd be born in the 1940s.

 

They had television, and I 'think' those medicines, and certainly fribees (at the very least in the 1950s). Credit cards I'm unsure, they were not electronic like today, but there may have been a "form of credit", as the old ones in the 80s-90s you had to slot on a mechanical device. As for ballpoint pens, I don't know really, but... it doesn't seem all that advanced to not exist in the 40s-50s, though plastic was far less mass produced, so.. it's a maybe.

 

Pantyhose, (what we call tights in the UK) have existed for hundreds of years, so that's stupid. In fact, in WW2, some women used to paint their legs in gravy (I'm not joking) and use an eyeliner pencil to draw a line, because they couldn't afford or get their hands on tights, so they'd make it look like they were wearing them.

 

I'm sure people used to get about more to see people, and didn't just hang out with their cousins. If it's about the "term", I wouldn't know...

 

Radios existed throughout WW2, yoghurt, I don't know, but it's been known of for hundreds of years also, whether it was in America at that time, I can't say.

 

"Made in Japan", well if it was automatically junk, either it could stem from racism, but if about the qualilty, then I'm unsure, because back then, the Asian market had not taken over the world (and really it applies more to China than Japan), so I'd imagine some good things may have come from Japan....

 

McDonalds existed in the 1950s. Not sure about the Pizza takeouts though, or the instant coffee, that may be a later invention (then again it could have been devised for soldiers in the wars).

 

The car for $600 brand new, even back then, sounds far fetched to me... maybe $1000-2000?

 

 

I've never heard of lullabies being called "rock music" (as if to refer to "rocking yourself to sleep") but maybe I'm wrong. If refering to the genre, it's not putting anyone to sleep, and rock was "rock and roll" in that time.

 

 

Edited April 28, 2021 by EccentricM

[Shawnster]

On 4/28/2021 at 5:39 AM, EccentricM said:

They had television

It's one thing to have something invented, and quite another to actually own it.  My dad was born in 1944 and remembered when there was only 1 television set on his entire street (not at his house either). People would literally gather in the yard of this neighbors house and watch TV through the window. 

 

Plus, there weren't that many TV shows even after TV was first invented 

 

On 4/27/2021 at 2:49 PM, Old said:

 

I bet you have this old man in mind...you are in for a shock! 

 

Read on to see -- pretty scary if you think about it and pretty sad at the same time.

 

Are you ... ready ?????   

 

This man would be 75 years old today (2021).

Um, nope.  I was pretty spot on with the age group before I got to the end.  

[Dages]

Imagine doing this in Paradise when you are 10 000 years old.  

[dove]

I remember the first tv I ever saw was one my grandfather had; it was 9", black and white of course, only on a few hours a day. It had many problems; the picture always turning into horizontal lines and rolling upwards, snow instead of a picture , et. And all those tubes always going bad...we've come a long way in the last 75 years..