10/14/12

Just how old am I...



Well, let's see now. I am old enough to remember when you took typing classes in high school and you learned to type on a manual typewriter....not in first grade on a computer.

Vintage Typewriter Royal Working Desktop 1950s Gray Manual

I'm old enough to remember taking three years of Gregg shorthand and learning all about brief forms and transcription. And by the way, I still use my shorthand on occasion and remember a lot of it really good.



I am old enough to remember the cartridge style fountain pens. I still like to use them once in awhile.


I'm old enough to remember when you could actually count by doing math...not by using a calculator.


I'm old enough that I remember the old rotary dial phones and the private, semi-private and party lines. And your phone number may have started with numbers, but you said it as a code....we were Regent 6 which was RE6 or 736.


I'm old enough that I remember we had a green formica kitchen table with chairs.



I'm old enough that I remember Mom having to wash clothes in a wringer washer



I'm old enough to remember starting every school day with The Pledge of Allegiance...



....and bowing our heads while they prayed over the intercom before school started.



I am getting old and I am loving every memory of it. I wouldn't trade my life for anybody's.


1 comment:

Beth said...

I remember all of those things too. :-)