The Times They Are a-Changin’ Again

Actually the word “again” is not needed in the above subject because the times never stops a-changin. Bob Dylan probably should have sang, 

The Times Are Always a-Changin’

Allow me to give you some examples...

First Example: There was a time when everyone knew what a Buggy Whip was because Buggy Whips were everywhere. Everyone had Buggies and everyone had Horses hooked up to their Buggies and everyone had to have Buggy Whips to make the horses pull the Buggies. (I sure hope the PETA people don’t read this Blog Posting)

Ø Hazel, where are the Buggy Whips?

Ø Horace, you are show ‘enf starting to lose it.

Ø Don’t you remember we keep all the Buggy Whips in the Buggy Whip Box right outside the barn door?

Second Example:

Grandpa, you just said that when you were young and you wanted to mail a letter you used to lick the back of your 2-cent postage stamp with your tongue to wet the postage stamp glue and then you would stick the stamp on your letter.

I’m beginning to worry about you, Grandpa, because that just cannot be true. If you did that, even one time, you surely would have caught COVID-19 and died before you got to be as old as you are.

Third Example:

How to get from Point A to Point B in the Old Days...

Grandpa explains to Grand Whippersnapper (Grandchild)...

Ø Grandpa went to the Service Station to fill up the Packard.

Ø He tries not to obsess because the price per gallon is up 5 cents to 17 cents a gallon because he knows he has no other option but to pay what those crooks are charging.

Ø He makes a mental note that while he is out and about to stop in at the Five and Dime Store and buy some fine letter writing paper so you can write his congressman about the high price of gas (he knows he is wasting his time because he wrote his Congressman when gas went up to 12 cents a gallon and he paid him no never mind).

Ø While the smiling Service Station Attendant is pumping his gas, wiping his windshield, checking his oil and his tire pressure, he goes inside the service station and gets a supply of Free Maps for the trip to Point B.

Ø He resists the guilt feeling of his being wasteful because he knows he already has these same maps from his last trip to Point B but they got all crinkled up when Hazel sat on them.

Ø When he gets home he lays out the maps on the kitchen table and writes down every turn and the mileage he will drive before he gets to every turn on some loose leaf paper.

Ø The day of the trip he sets himself up in the driver’s seat and gives the maps and loose leaf turn sheets to Hazel with these exact instructions...
”Hazel, you are the Trip Navigator. I need you to keep me informed of the next upcoming turn. Don’t give me more than just the next upcoming turn like you kept doing last time went to Point B. That caused me to make a wrong turn. Remember not to sit on the maps.”

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How to get from Point A to Point B in the New Days...

Grand Whippersnapper (Grandchild) explains to Grandpa...

Ø Plug the address of Point B into the car’s GPS.

Ø Click Go and Go.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Did I just hear a couple of my Dear Readers say, “Wasn’t it a waste of time to Whip A Buggy?”