Elsa jokes that her generation is stuck in
time - so many shows she grew up with are shown daily on cable stations. If we got our idea of time from the weekly
television guide, she would walk up Alden Road to school instead of driving to
work.
Now I know how she feels. The newest Wireless catalogue has arrived and
I feel like I am a time traveler. There
is a fondue pot right out of the '50s. A record turntable that plays 33 1/3 and 45
RPM records. (Do you young folks out
there even know what a 45 RPM record is?)
A Burma Shave shaving kit, complete with mug, soap and brush. A 1949 Ella Fitzgerald poster. A model of the Memphis Belle. A framed baseball card of Joe DiMaggio and
Mickey Mantle. Bubble Christmas lights –
bubble Christmas lights!
Seeing them all makes me feel like a kid of
forty.
My favorite item is current. Let me assure you that The Serenity Prayer has pulled me through some tough moments. There is, however, a parody on it that made
me laugh when I read it. It is The Senility Prayer:
God grant me the senility
to forget the people
I never liked anyway,
The good fortune
to run into the ones I do,
And the eyesight
to tell the difference.
Signed - wisely - ANONYMOUS
With that tweak of the spirit, am up the
wooden hill and off to bed - Retro Grammie
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