Older 'n Dirt!!



"Hey Dad," one of my Sons asked the other day, "What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?"



"We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All the food was slow."



"C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?"



"It was a place called "at home," I explained. "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it."



By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it:



Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or...Read