A backward glance shows how I was before.
Before I knew much at all and without any clue as to my future.
Before I went off to war, yet while I was being picked last for the
team. “OK, we’ll take ZC, if we must.”
Without direction or a paycheck my friends and I strayed as far as we
could, being sure to be home when the streetlights came on. That was our only instruction and time limit.
The car was made of steel, no plastic, no seatbelts and no computerized
systems. No power brakes or power
steering, hand crank windows and at 18 cents a gallon our pocket change took us
anywhere we wanted to go. If the car broke down, we could fix it in the driveway.
But this is now. This is the
future I couldn’t have envisioned.
Plastic cars full of computers, pumping gas through their system at
$3.00 or more a gallon. Most repairs are a $300.00 computer chip.
We have strayed far beyond our pocket change.
1 comment:
Last time I bought gas it was over $4.00 a gallon! Agreed!! The younger generation has no idea what they missed!
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