Subj : what we remember before a
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Dec 15 2020 14:11:00

Joe,

 JM>   I often use a line from here in Memories years ago, when someone said
 JM> they "weren't a slow driver nor a fast drive, but a half fast driver".
 JM>   That has stuck in my mind all these years.

  And, it all depends where people's minds are, or where they go.

 JM>   I have memories of my kindergarten teacher.  A somewhat large woman,
 JM> who smelled of perfume I think she bathed in.

  I have wondered about that sometimes...the perfume or cologne is so
pungent.

 JM>   And her dark blue early '50s Buick with the starter button under the
 JM> gas pedal and her starting it up, pressing down the gas with the engine
 JM> coming to life with a deep growl and rumble.

  That's nostalgia!!

 JM>   Another around that time was being fascinated by windshield wipers.
 JM>   I would get on the hood and push and pull them back and forth.
 JM>   One time my mother came to the door telling me to stop that, I was
 JM> going to break them.  I scurried off the hood at once.  (You didn't
 JM> mess with my mama.  Her word was law!)

  That's not the case today with parents...the kids just ignore them,
cuss them out, or "give them the bird".

 JM>    Time passes, and we are going down a street in a pouring rain and
 JM> the drivers wiper is going back and forth then suddenly it flew off the
 JM> car.  My mother looked at me and said "I told you where going to break
 JM> it".  Never said anything about that again.

  I'll bet you felt like crap.

 JM>   Going back to Charles' post about memories, that was burned into my
 JM> mind but years later asking my mother about it she had no memory of it.

  See the tagline below. <G>

Daryl


.... 3 things fail with age. Memory is 1st; forgot the other 2
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