By Staff
My child bride wife did it again the other day. She burned our breakfast toast.
I told her not to feel bad, as when it happened to my mother whenever she did the same thing she would tell me that burned toast is good for a tummy ache.
This was one I could never figure out because at the time I didn't have a belly ache, and when I did have one she never made me burned toast.
My son recently installed three new smoke alarms for us with guaranteed 10-year batteries, so I don't have to worry for a decade, if I'm still around that long.
I'll never forget years ago when in our bedroom we kept hearing a chirp-chirp sound, which we both swore had to be a cricket.
We moved everything in the room looking for the critter, which was driving us crazy.
We finally found it was a warning that the battery was going dead in the ceiling smoke alarm.
I swear that sound seemed to be from everywhere but the ceiling.
Speaking of crickets, remember those little tin ones you squeezed between your fingers that made a chirping sound when you clicked them years ago?
Didn't we in Dowagiac used to have instead of 782- just S.T. (7-8) for the prefix before the phone number?
Remember the days when a kid got a soap mouthwash if he said one of those really bad words?
Boy, if this method was still in use, I'd sure like to be in the soap business.
Years ago, as I look back when ladies went to town shopping, they had to be dressed to kill.
Wow, look at the shopping ladies of today. Enough said.
Did you know that in 1948 you could buy Woman's Day magazine for just two cents?
The other day I saw a truck driving right down the railroad tracks.
I guess it had iron wheels that dropped down and fit the rails.
Years ago they had what was called a hand car that was moved down the tracks by one or two men hand-pumping the handles.
When they got to where they were to work they could just lift it off of the tracks.
I haven't seen a hand car for a long time.
I read the other day that years ago in the days of those old hand-cranked Victrolas that pine needles were an alternative to steel phonograph needles.
We had some needles made of bamboo for our old machine years ago.
I can't remember the sound difference between the two.
Women used to use the Calumet baking soda can with the lid off as it made the best biscuit cutter because of its sharp rim.
I wonder if today's fishermen or women spit on their bait for good luck before putting it in the water.