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Meditations on age
Oct. 6th, 2011 11:10 pmThere's the usual things--I can remember not only the first PCs and when milk costs fifteen cents a carton in the school cafeteria, but reel-to-reel tape and transistor radios and Styrofoam containers for Big Macs.
But my parents remember the first TVs appearing in their neighborhoods, and not going out without a hat and gloves, and glass shampoo bottles.
And most of my grandparents were born when Teddy Roosevelt and William Taft were still living--indeed, when the latter was in office. They were adults before spaceflight, before nuclear power or weapons, before the widespread use of antibiotics. I've had long conversations with people who were born before the start of World War I.
Up until three years ago, I could still talk to one of them.
Time's funny, it is.
But my parents remember the first TVs appearing in their neighborhoods, and not going out without a hat and gloves, and glass shampoo bottles.
And most of my grandparents were born when Teddy Roosevelt and William Taft were still living--indeed, when the latter was in office. They were adults before spaceflight, before nuclear power or weapons, before the widespread use of antibiotics. I've had long conversations with people who were born before the start of World War I.
Up until three years ago, I could still talk to one of them.
Time's funny, it is.