It's a sure way of knowing you're getting a bit older.
You think back to what, for you, are 'the good old days'. Now, depending on your age it could be that 'ol Model T (really?? You remember the Model T?). Maybe it's when you got that first color TV set (Living color according to NBC's peacock)...
A really super cool toys was only fifty cents and a few cereal box tops away!
Now, the half-buck could be gotten by cleaning out the hog house. And the cereal box tops? Oh, that was easy. Just head with Mom to the grocery store and be sure and pick out the right kind of cereal...
Don't be looking in a woman's purse. Not even if it's your wife's or belongs to your significant other. Nope. Doing something like that will get you an angry stare, a slap or shot. Maybe sued.
Nothing good happens there.
But what the heck, we can go back, back, back and see what Grandma hauled around in her purse...
There were a few absolutes for me growing up on that little farm.
There was a test at the little two-room school tomorrow and I wasn't ready.
The pigs had to be slopped (If you don't know what slopping pigs is, ask your dad...or maybe granddad...