- I was born.
- I have lived.
- I have bought candy, 2 pieces for a penny.
- I have watched old women dip snuff.
- I have seen my Grandma wear her prairie bonnet that hung by her door.
- I have fished with a can pole.
- I have spent and entire day playing in the woods.
- I have watched a television when there were only 3 channels available.
- I have listened to the radio when there was more static than music after dark.
- I have hung clothes on a line to dry.
- I've drank coke from paper cone cups that sat in a plastic holder with paper straws.
- I drank coke in little bottles with peanuts.
- I have attended segregated schools.
- I have road miles of dirt roads.
- I have sat in a rocking chair as I shelled peas on a porch on a hot Southern day.
- I have seen Man walk on the moom for the first time live.
- I have had milk delivered to our door in glass bottles.
- I have seen water pumped by hand from an old fashioned hand pump.
- I have watched Martin Luther King Jr. on television live.
- I have cashiered in a store with an old fashion register and counted the change due in my head.
- I have lived in a home in Florida before air conditioning was the norm.
- I have lived during the Kennedy dynasty.
- I was a child when curse words were considered vulgar.
- I have seen a time when business doors were closed on Sundays in honor of the Lord's day.
- I lived before there were fast food restaurants and drive thru's.
- I lived when you looked up information in an encyclopedia instead of google.
- I lived when "yes Sir and no Ma'am and Thank you and Please" were second nature speech.
