Margaret glanced up from a sink full of soapy dishes. Pa was in his element, surrounded by the grands and great-grands, telling stories of “how it was before tv’s and computers; when people called and you answered your phone, none of this texting and voicemail business.”
“How did you do it, Pa? Didn’t you wonder if you were missing something? I would!” Zachary blurted.
Pa chuckled, his eyes softened, remembering. “Well Zach, guess we didn’t miss anything ‘cause we didn’t know any better. We got along just fine, I think. Just look at all of you. Musta done something right.”
~kat
100 Words for Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers flash fiction Challenge inspired by the photo above by © Fatima Fakier Deria
like mercury colliding... 
March 29th, 2018 at 10:11 pm
i remember my grands talking about party lines and listening in, sitting in their old gossip benches, reading newsprint that smudged on your fingers, milk delivered in glass jars placed in metal containers on the front porch, taking baths once a week,and grandpa stopping by folk’s homes making collections from what was still owed him from the lay-aways from his store. Now my stories to my grands don’t seem so old – like like having microwaves, dish washers (my mother was), having to talk fast because the call was long distance, and when using beepers was new-fangled technology. Thanks for helping me remember.
Randy
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March 29th, 2018 at 10:14 pm
My pleasure Randy. It sounds like you had a pleasant walk down memory lane. I remember some of those things too! 😊
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March 29th, 2018 at 11:21 pm
That was a lovely one…
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March 30th, 2018 at 4:04 am
The wisdom of age.💜
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March 30th, 2018 at 6:14 am
Life happens in spite of our attempts to complicate it. 😉
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March 30th, 2018 at 9:48 am
Oh! It does!
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March 30th, 2018 at 10:11 am
😊
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March 30th, 2018 at 10:12 am
💜💜💜
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March 30th, 2018 at 8:52 am
Being alone with no way for anyone to contact you. Bliss!
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March 30th, 2018 at 9:10 am
I know. To be able to really disconnect! A rare gift in this modern age! 😊
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March 30th, 2018 at 11:07 am
How on earth did we survive? 😉
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March 30th, 2018 at 11:09 am
Much more blissfully unaware, I’m thinking! 😄
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March 30th, 2018 at 3:48 pm
Amen.. Patience is definitely a rare virtue. 😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀
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March 30th, 2018 at 5:07 pm
Yes. And a bit of the unknown, sublime.
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March 30th, 2018 at 6:15 pm
I try to tell myself that things are better, but ‘tween you and me I’d rather go back to phones with curly cables and hand-delivered telegrams!
Click to read my 99 words!
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March 30th, 2018 at 6:16 pm
Sometimes I wish I wasn’t so easily found. 😕
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March 31st, 2018 at 12:46 am
I don’t even have kids, and even I talk like that and miss those simpler times 🙂 Lovely story Kat.
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March 31st, 2018 at 6:18 am
Ironic that we call it simpler times when the idea of technology is meant to make our lives simpler. 😉
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March 31st, 2018 at 7:05 am
Dear Kat,
I remember teasing my parents about living in the Dark Ages and we’ve come so much farther still. Sweet story.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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March 31st, 2018 at 9:19 am
Yes! I can only imagine the tales this generation will tell!
Peace to you Rochelle
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March 31st, 2018 at 11:54 am
Granpa’s got it right 🙂 Part of romance is–ought to be–the mystery!
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March 31st, 2018 at 12:41 pm
Absolutely! 😊
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March 31st, 2018 at 5:39 pm
Our memories always make the past better than it was, don’t they? I’ve been watching a series of documentaries about the seventies and the eighties… we did have fun, but would I want to go back? Not really. To make a long story short: lovely story.
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March 31st, 2018 at 6:29 pm
Selective memory protects us from reality I think. I do enjoy my technology, I must admit! 😊
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April 3rd, 2018 at 8:08 pm
LOL…love the undertones here.
Busy getting busy! 😉
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April 3rd, 2018 at 9:14 pm
Yes. Simpler times seemed less hurried. 😊
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