Stay with this to the END!!!

One evening a grandson was talking to his grandmother about current events.

The grandson asked his grandmother what she thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general.

The Grandmother replied, "Well, let me think a minute, I was born before:

' television

' penicillin

' polio shots

' frozen foods

' Xerox

' contact lenses

' Frisbees and

' the pill

And there were no:

' credit cards

' laser beams or

' ball-point pens

And man had not yet invented:

' pantyhose

' air conditioners

' dishwashers

' clothes dryers

' and the clothes were hung out to dry in the fresh air and

' man hadn't yet walked on the moon

Your Grandfather and I got married first, and then lived together.

Every family had a father and a mother.

Until I was 25, I called every man older than me, "Sir."

And after I turned 25, I still called policemen and every man with a title, "Sir."

We were before gay-rights, computer-dating, dual careers, daycare centers, and group therapy.

Our lives were governed by the Ten Commandments, good judgment, and common sense.

We were taught to know the difference between right and wrong and to stand up and take responsibility for our actions.

Serving your country was a privilege; living in this country was a bigger privilege.

Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with your cousins.

Time-sharing meant time the family spent together in the evenings and weekends - not purchasing condominiums.

We never heard of FM radios, tape decks, CD's, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings.

We listened to Big Bands and 'Radio Luxembourg' on our radios.

And I don't ever remember any kid blowing his brains out listening to Tommy Dorsey.

If you saw anything with 'Made in Japan ' on it, it was junk.

The term 'making out' referred to how you did on your school exam.

Pizza Hut, McDonald's, and instant coffee were unheard of.

We had 5 &10-cent stores where you could actually buy things for 5 and 10 cents.

Ice-cream cones, phone calls, rides on a streetcar, and a Pepsi were all 5 cents

And if you didn't want to splurge, you could spend your 5 cents on enough stamps to mail 1 letter and 2 postcards.

You could buy a new Ford Coupe for $600, but who could afford one?

Too bad, because petrol was 4 cents a litre 

In my day:

' "grass" was mowed,

' "coke" was a cold drink,

' "pot" was something your mother cooked in and

' "rock music" was your grandmother's lullaby.

' "Aids" were helpers in the Principal's office,

' "chip" meant a piece of wood,

' "hardware" was found in a hardware store and.

' "software" wasn't even a word.

 And we were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed a husband to have a baby.

No wonder people call us "old and confused" and say there is a generation gap.

  How old do you think I am?

I bet you have this old lady in mind. You are in for a shock !

Read on to see -- pretty scary if you think about it and pretty sad at the same time.Are you ready?????

 

This woman would be only 72 years old. Born in 1942.

GIVES YOU SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By ANDRÉ PICARD Globe and Mail

Only 7,500 of the coins will be minted, and the Mint will make a $10,000 donation to a charity in the Canadian author's name

Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro's reputation as a literary great is already cast in stone, but now it will be forged in silver, too.

The Royal Canadian Mint released a limited edition $5 silver commemorative coin to honour the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for literature at a ceremony in Victoria on Monday.

"It's quite an honour," said Sheila Munro, Alice's daughter. "We didn't even know this kind of special coin existed."

The coin features an inscription of a passage from The View from Castle Rock, and above it a laurel branch celebrates Ms. Munro's distinction as the first Canadian woman to win a Nobel Prize in literature (The flip side of the coin features the Queen, not Ms. Munro.) Only 7,500 of the coins will be minted.

The silver coin itself requires a magnifying glass to read the text: "And in one of these houses – I can't remember whose – a magic doorstop, a big mother-of-pearl seashell that I recognized as a messenger from near and far," it begins.

Wearing bold, red-rimmed glasses, Ms. Munro then read a passage for a small crowd of officials from the Mint, as well as literary representatives.

As part of the honour, the Mint will make a $10,000 donation to a charity in the author's name.

Ms. Munro has decided the money will go to the Writers' Trust of Canada, a group that celebrates and supports Canadian authors.

Sheila Munro said donating the money to a charity that lends a helping hand to struggling writers seemed like an appropriate gesture. "We cast around and the Writers' Trust seemed like the right place. We know it will be used appropriately."

In 1986, the Writers' Trust presented Ms. Munro with a $10,000 prize in honour of her exceptional body of work, and she is now repaying the gift with one of her own.

"Nearly three decades later, Ms. Munro's work is lauded throughout the world, and through this generous gift, the fruits of her success become an investment in future generations of literary icons," said Mary Osborne, the group's executive director.

Ms. Munro is the author of 14 books and widely recognized as the master of the contemporary short story. Many of her stories are set in her native Huron County in Southwestern Ontario. She lives in Wingham, Ont., but now spends her winters in Victoria.

Ms. Munro is the first Canadian citizen and only the 13th woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature, the world's most prestigious literary prize for lifetime achievement. She is the winner of a bevy of other literary laurels, including the Giller (twice), the international Man Booker Prize for a body of work in 2009 and the Governor-General's Award for Fiction (three times).

Ms. Munro's first story collection was published in 1968. In 2013, she said she was retiring from writing.

The coin will sell for $69.95

Did You Know?
• In 1976 a high school principal in Peterborough, Ont. pushed to have Munro's 1971 book Lives of Girls and Women removed from the Grade 13 reading list because of "the explicit language and description of sex scenes," according to the Globe and Mail. The book was also banned in Alberta schools in the 1970s.

• The three other books targeted as blasphemous or too explicit in Huron County in 1978 were John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Margaret Laurence's The Diviners. In August 1978 the school board voted that it would ban only The Diviners from the five high schools in the county.