FROM YOUR GRANDMA AND GRANDPAS

 WE ARE THE SURVIVORS

 We were before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox's, contact lenses and the pill. We were before radar, credit cards, split atoms, laser beams, and ball point pens; before tights, washing machines, dish washers, electric blankets, drip dry clothes-- and before a man walked on the moon.

 We got married and then lived together, how quaint can you be? In our time closets were for clothes, not for coming out of. Designer jeans were scheming girls called "Jean", and having meaningful relationship meant getting along with your cousins. We were before House -Husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers, and computer marriages. We thought fast food was what you ate in Lent, and Outer space was the back of the bicycle shed.

 We were before group therapy and day care centres. We had never heard of FM radio, tape recorders, electric type writers, heart transplants, word processors, yoghurt or fellows wearing ear rings. For us time sharing meant togetherness, not condominiums; a chip was a piece of wood or a potato: hardware meant hardware and software was unheard of. In 1940"Made in Japan" meant junk. Macdonald's was a farm, and instant coffee wasn't.

 We hit the scene when the corner shop sold ice cream cones for 1d.,and for 2d.,you could ride in a tram car make a phone call, buy a glass of lemonade or stamps to mail  one letter or two postcards. You could buy a car for £150- but who could afford one?, pity though, for petrol was only 1s.3d a gallon.

 In our day smoking was fashionable, GRASS was mowed, COKE was fuel and POT was something you cooked in. ROCK MUSIC was Grandmas Lullaby and AIDS were assistants.

 We were certainly not before the differences between the sex's was discovered, but we were surely before the sex-change. We made do with what we had, and we were the last generation that was so dumb as to think that you needed a husband to have a baby.

 No wonder we are so confused and that there is a generation gap today.

 BUT WE HAVE SURVIVED !