Here
are some memories from The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet Days
(I
give you a Fella Permission to Google, “The Adventures of Ozzie &
Harriet”)
Do you know what time the movie starts? No, I don’t,
and I don’t care what time it starts.
- Today
people who go to movies think you must be there at the time the movie is
scheduled to start.
- If they
get messed up and realize they can’t be there for the Start of the Movie, it’s
a no-brainer that they must wait for a night when they can be there for the Start
of the Movie.
- This
was not the case in the old days.
- We
went to the movies when we went to the movies.
- I’m
not sure if the movie theatres even bothered to publish the Starting Times of
the movies.
- I am
sure that, if they did publish the Starting Times, we did not bother to look up
the Starting Times because the Starting Times were not important to us.
- We
just went, bought our nickel bag of fresh hot popcorn and sat down.
- This
means this was sure to happen all around us as we watched our movie…People all
around us who realized that this is where they had come in would say to each
other, “This is where we came in” and they would get up and leave because this
was where they had come in.
If I close my eyes and concentrate just a
little bit, I can still hear the jingling.
- Remember
coins?
- Back
when I was growing up there were lots of coins in church.
- The
coins made their presence known at collection time as they started jingling all
over the church.
- When
the jingling started, we knew it was time to offer up our offering.
- Those
that were sleeping were jingled awake by the sound of the jingling and
frantically started reaching into their pockets to get their coins (to prevent
them from going to hell).
- Nowadays
we use checks which don’t jingle.
- Later
in life I passed the collection basket and used to chuckle at the those who
were afraid to be seen not contributing anything so when the basket came by
they would hold a closed hand over the basket and dip their hand down a bit
into the basket and open their hand and drop nothing into the basket (these
people were sure as hell going to hell).
- Today
there is no jingling noise nor is there concern that people will see you put
nothing into the basket because of Online Giving.
- People
who give nothing just smugly sit there with an I Give Online look on their often-lying
faces.
What are those handrails for?
- Do
you remember when you used to climb stairs 2 and 3 at a time?
- As
you shot up those steps, do you remember noticing out of the corner of your eye
those handrails on either side of you?
- Do
you remember asking yourself, “I wonder what those things are for?”
- Now
you know that they are for grabbing a hold of and pulling your aging body
slowly up those same stairs you used to shoot up.
- They
could be called grunt rails because each pull up is accompanied by a grunt.
(Yea man, I got carried away with this last bullet…Or did I?)
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
