This Explains a Lot
Every once in a while we we stumble upon tiny glimpses of our past. Little bits and pieces of heritage and history. Answers to why. Snippets that account for what.
Forgotten artifacts carelessly tossed in a corner of the attic. An old coat or shirt dry rotting on a hanger in the back of the closet. Dismantled or broken appliances, furniture or toys.
They all offer insights from which we might postulate as to whom we really are and why we may be or act a certain way. Our past defining us, presently.
Solid answers, however, are in the tangible. Scrapbooks, notes, letters.
Photographs.
I spent some time in the attic a few days ago on a completely unrelated quest and stumbled upon this little gem from my past.
I think it explains a lot.
LMAO!!!!! Great picture though! So highlights the difference in how different generations grow up. How when are kids are parents they are going to gasp in horror at some of the things we thought were state of the line or safe.
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Ed Reply:
March 10th, 2010 at 9:25 am
I’m anxious to hear my kids’ interpretations of how “rough” they had it while growing up.
Susie Reply:
March 10th, 2010 at 9:27 am
LOL-at least you have your blog-a written account of their childhood. How can they argue with that?
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I remember that car seat! That is the car that Mom painted the exterior with a paintbrush. We were the envy of the neighborhood. A car with a fresh coat of flat gray paint! Yep – those were the days
Ed Reply:
March 10th, 2010 at 11:21 am
Unbelievable! I thought my Maverick was the only car she went after with a paintbrush. She was a repeat offender!!
At least they strapped you in dude, my dad loves regaling the story of me falling out of the car as he turned into the drive, which incidentally, explains a lot about me.
Ed Reply:
March 10th, 2010 at 11:21 am
We all have a source.
That has to be the oldest car seat in the WORLD! Love it, my friend . . .
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Ed Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 6:13 am
And I lived to tell the tale.
ROFL! That is a classic Ed.
It’s a wonder we ever lived to our ripe old age. Ha!
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Ed Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 6:14 am
I think this car seat was the least of my hurdles to longevity. It just made me tougher!
Wonderful
Don’t forget to add the complete lack of airbags, seatbelts and an unforgiving steel bulkhead a few inches away from where your head lay in that photo – oh yes, and a windscreen made of real glass that shattered properly like real glass is supposed to
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Ed Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 6:16 am
But consider that the vehicle body probably was completely metal — more like a tank. As opposed to the fiberglass encasings to which we trust our lives these days.
That’s actually quite safe, Ed – I think my equivalent was my mom’s lap in the front seat. Shudder.
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Ed Reply:
March 13th, 2010 at 8:10 am
Or when we got just a bit older, riding the hump in the middle of the back seat so that we could hang over the back of the front seat? We always fought over the middle.
At least you had a carseat, I was thrown on the floor in a laundry basket and this was only in the 70′s!
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Ed Reply:
March 14th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
I graduated in the 70′s from that safety marvel —-
to a Pinto!