CHANGING TIMES

Ok, its been a wierd road since the 40's. I grew up in the South, in a segregated world, with no tv, one phone,

no car at 16, during WW11 and the Korean War. I think those of us who have done that have come a long way

baby! Right after i was born, my Dad went to the war as did all my uncles. My mom and I (baby) travelled back and forth to my grandmas house and the Aunts did too.

To help her with the crops and the house since all the men were gone and she only had one son living at home and he was at war too. She even took in borders to help pay for stuff. We had a radio, listened to soaps and news at day, I grew up about 6 or so, listening to Hoppalong Cassidy, The long Ranger, Sky King and The Shadow.

We had one phone and at my grandmas the phone was a crank one, you could crank it, talk to someone in town and ask where someone was and they could tell you right away...I could call and ask where my mom was, and she would dial where she was for me. Sweet! But, we did have an outhouse, one bath and had to tote hot water to wash in, and one bathroom cabinet that didn't have much medicine in it. I bet we had : one large bottle of asprin, alcohol, peroxide,

idodine, bandaids, gauze, paregoric, ipecac, baking soda and thats it. Everything thing else my grandma made up from stuff in the yard or kitchen. We ate cheap, grits and sliced tomatoes for supper lots of times, and only bought maybe bread and sugar..we had chickens(my gran could wring a chickens neck and have it on the table for lunch in a flash!) eggs, hogs, cow(milk), and vegatables we grew...oh, the ice man came with a block of ice for the icebox and sometimes we had a man with watermelons, cantalope and peaches come by in a mule drawn wagon. It was

soooo simple and so just family. So now here I am addicted to movies on tv, using a computer, have friends that are different races, genders and gay. Yep, we have come a long way but some of it, I wish we still had.