Prime Timer...

The Loony Bin ( loonies@bloodaxe.com )
Sat, 14 Sep 02 03:35:23 +0100


Hiya People...

Time now to look at things from the older folks' point of view...

Wishes & Dreams...

- ANDREA
        xx

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  ------- Forwarded foolishness follows -------

 
Profile of a Prime-Timer
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Life before sixty is nothing but a warm-up.
  
We true prime-timers were here before the Pill, the population explosion
and disposable diapers. We were here before we were called "senior
citizens".
 
We were here before TV, penicillin, polio shots, antibiotics and open-
heart surgery. Before frozen food, nylon, Xerox, radar, fluorescent
lights, credit cards, ball point pens, Frisbees and fiber optics.
  
For us, time-sharing meant togetherness, not computers or condos.  
 
Coeds never wore jeans. Girls wore Peter Pan collars. We were here
before panty hose and drip-dry clothes, before ice makers and
dishwashers, clothes dryers, freezers and electric blankets. Before men
wore long hair and earrings and before women wore tuxedos.
 
We were here before Anne Landers, Grandma Moses and the Kinsey Report.
We were here before facelifts, tummy tucks, liposuction and hair
transplants.
 
We thought cleavage was what butchers did. We were here before sex
changes, before Viagra. We just made do with what we had.
 
We were here before computers. A mouse pad was where the mice hung out.
To log-on was to add wood to fire. A chip was a piece of wood. Hardware
meant hardware, and software wasn't even a word. A hard drive was a
long, gruelling journey. A CD was something you invested in. Windows
were for looking out of. A virus was a flu bug that people caught.
Backing up was what you hoped never happened to your toilet, especially
when you had company.
  
We were here before vitamins, Jeeps, pizza, Cherrios, instant coffee,
decaffeinated anything, light anything and McDonald's. We thought fast
food was what you ate during Lent.  
 
If we had been asked to explain VCR, EIA, NATO, UFO, PMS, GNP, MBA, BMW,
SDI, NFL, PSA and ATM, we'd have said "alphabet soup".
  
We prime-timers are a hardy bunch when you think of how our world has
changed, all we have learned and the adjustments we have made. I'm
pretty proud of us.
 
Let's keep in touch. Just e-mail me, send a fax, leave a message on my
answering machine or call me on m cell phone. If I don't answer, tell my
voice mail you called - after the beep, leave your name, your number and
a brief message, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. If you need
me quickly, call my pager. If all fails, come on over to my house, take
a seat in one of the rockers on my porch and we'll visit the old-
fashioned way - face to face and in person - and let the rest of the
world go by.


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