<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><h3 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: rgb(63, 71, 133); font-size: 1.3em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 1.3em;">Wasn’t This Us?</span></h3></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Author unknown</div><div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A little house with three bedrooms,<br>one bathroom and one car on the street.<br>A mower that you had to push<br>to make the grass look neat.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the kitchen on the wall<br>we only had one phone,<br>And no need for recording things,<br>someone was always home.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We only had a living room<br>where we would congregate,<br>unless it was at mealtime<br>in the kitchen where we ate.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We had no need for family rooms<br>or extra rooms to dine.<br>When meeting as a family<br>those two rooms would work out fine.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We only had one TV set<br>and channels maybe three,<br>But always there was one of them<br>with something worth to see.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For snacks we had potato chips<br>that tasted like a chip.<br>And if you wanted flavor<br>there was Lipton's onion dip.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Store-bought snacks were rare because<br>my mother liked to cook<br>and nothing can compare to snacks<br>in Betty Crocker's book.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Weekends were for family trips<br>or staying home to play.<br>We all did things together --<br>even go to church to pray.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When we did our weekend trips<br>depending on the weather,<br>no one stayed at home because<br>we liked to be together.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sometimes we would separate<br>to do things on our own,<br>but we knew where the others were<br>without our own cell phone.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Then there were the movies<br>with your favorite movie star,<br>and nothing can compare<br>to watching movies in your car.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And there were the picnics<br>at the peak of summer season,<br>pack a lunch and find some trees<br>and never need a reason.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Get a baseball game together<br>with all the friends you know,<br>have real action playing ball --<br>and no game video.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Remember when the doctor<br>used to be the family friend,<br>and didn't need insurance<br>or a lawyer to defend?</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The way that he took care of you<br>or what he had to do,<br>because he took an oath and strove<br>to do the best for you.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Remember going to the store<br>and shopping casually,<br>and when you went to pay for it<br>you used your own money?</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nothing that you had to swipe<br>or punch in some amount,<br>and remember when the cashier person<br>had to really count?</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The milkman used to go<br>from door to door,<br>And it was just a few cents more<br>than going to the store.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There was a time when mailed letters<br>came right to your door,<br>without a lot of junk mail ads<br>sent out by every store.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The mailman knew each house by name<br>and knew where it was sent;<br>there were not loads of mail addressed<br>to "present occupant."</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There was a time when just one glance<br>was all that it would take,<br>and you would know the kind of car,<br>the model and the make.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They didn't look like turtles<br>trying to squeeze out every mile;<br>they were streamlined, white walls, fins<br>and really had some style.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One time the music that you played<br>whenever you would jive,<br>was from a vinyl, big-holed record<br>called a forty-five.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The record player had a post<br>to keep them all in line<br>and then the records would drop down<br>and play one at a time.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Oh sure, we had our problems then,<br>just like we do today<br>and always we were striving,<br>trying for a better way.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Oh, the simple life we lived<br>still seems like so much fun,<br>how can you explain a game,<br>just kick the can and run?</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And why would boys put baseball cards<br>between bicycle spokes<br>and for a nickel, red machines<br>had little bottled Cokes?</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This life seemed so much easier<br>and slower in some ways.<br>I love the new technology<br>but I sure do miss those days.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So time moves on and so do we<br>and nothing stays the same,<br>but I sure love to reminisce</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Comic Sans ms", "Lucida Casual", Textile, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and walk down memory lane.<strong style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: normal;">.</span></strong></p></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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