An e-mail buddy sent me one of those nostalgia-oriented emails. The kind that makes us (old fools) reflect back to what we perceived as a much nicer time. Those yester-years, where everything was ahhh, so cool. The days of almost innocense, where having a weapon on the school grounds meant you had brought your slingshot from home. A time when our milk was DELIVERED by a milkman to our door, and it came in a glass bottle.
The good old days.
But, were they actually so good?
Taking the bad and comparing it to the good...well, you decide.

 

Unfortunately, back then, we had only 2 or 3 TV channels to watch.

Fortunately, we didn't need more because we were playing outside, or hunting, or fishing, or just walking in the woods, or down the street to see a friend, or...in my case...talking on my ham radio to people all over the world.

Unfortunately, we didn't have cell phones in case of an emergency.

Fortunately, because we didn't have cell phones, there were fewer emergencies. Maybe because there was no texting while driving.

Unfortunately, we didn't have burglar alarms and codes to remember.

Fortunately, we could leave our doors unlocked and the only non-family visitors were friends or neighbors who didn't need to knock.

Unfortunately, we didn't have computers and the internet.
Fortunately, we had paper and pencils, encyclopedias, and newspapers. And, we could actually read and write.

Fortunately, it's a long way to the sewer.

Unfortunately, we have come a long way.