That's not history, Chook Chicks. All that stuff happened in
my lifetime.
I didn't go to kindergarden as a child, because there weren't
no kindergarden yet.
We was never in preshool, or daycare...they hadn''t been invented
yet either. If we needed watching, it was the neighbor lady.
No one...
Yes, Em posted a picture of the real me. That's
the tux I got married in.
Let's see...music comes on something called a CD now.
Before that it was cassette tapes, eight tracks...and things
called records. We had a record player that had a crank on the
side...you cranked it up to play.
I...
The first telephone in our holler was a party line.
I remember there was a man, Alexander Graham Bell was his name, came
selling them door to door. He missed our house, on account of we didn't
have no door. But our neighbors had one...I seen it.
The first mobile phones? Still have that thing...
The sad part is I really don't remember how old I am.
I've been 103 for several years now. But I do look good
for my age.
I have to use a calculator to figure it out.
But I'm old...I forget things.
Now, where did I put that calculator?
But I know I'm older than 41...maybe 42...wait a...
I was telling my daughter and her friend about my
college days last week...named a few of my friends.
Bozo, Flippo, Coco, Blinky...
They looked shocked, said those were clown names.
Did I go to Clown College?
Yeah..that's where I went to college.
***No, I did not go to Clown College. But...
Happy Birthday to me.
Having discussed this with my wife, if I refuse to have a birthday
cake and the proper number of candles, this birthday will not count.
So I intend to pass...I believe I will always remain 103 years old..a 104
just sounds so OLD.
I don't want to be that old. Not yet. I'm...