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At 09:16 PM 09/19/2000 -0500, you wrote: >And.......with all our progress......don't you just wish......just > once......you could slip back in time and savor the slower >pace.......and share it with a child of the 80's and 90's........... Thanks Lanny, That's beautiful!! But in all honesty, if I had to learn as much as these Children of the 80's and 90's have to, when I was going to school, I'm not so sure I'd make it. The first year that the history of WWII hit the history books was the last semester of my senior year of high school!! Telephones had operators who made the call for you, information from Southwestern Bell was free, and they'd even tell you the time if you asked! There was no Television, and the Motion Picture Show only changed twice a week, and you could only buy popcorn the first 30 minutes of the movie, and you couldn't take any liquid drinks inside. I learned to drive in 1948, on an old 1939 Plymouth with the gear shift on the floor, people kept cars a lot longer then. No one thought anything about who had the newest car in the neighborhood, because you only bought a new one if the old one couldn't be fixed, or you had a wreck! Most children had after school jobs, and any spare time you had you spent at the public library, and day dreamed about becoming a librarian someday. There was no forced air furnaces nor air conditioning---Thanks but no thanks-- I kind of like my life the way it is. If it gets too hectic for me I can always go to Barnes & Nobel, get a cup of tea, and lose myself in a book. But thanks for making me remember for a little while. just me, Marjorie