Saturday, December 12, 2009

An Old Guy Remembering

Grandad was reminiscing about the good old days...

"When I were a lad, Momma would send me down to t'corner store wi' a dollar, and I'd come back wi' five pounds o' potatoes, two loaves o' bread, three pints o' milk, a pound o' cheese, a packet o' tea, an' 'alf a dozen eggs. Yer can't do that now.

Too many security cameras."


Thanks to Doug.

8 comments:

  1. Hi Mimi, I wanted to drop by and wish you a very Merry Christmas, nice to see your blog still brings a laugh and a smile to my heart.

    Happy New Year!

    Your old friend Florida Siren (now Shellbelle)

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  2. Hi Rhonda. Season's greetings to you. Thanks for stopping by.

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  3. This is a good one.

    word verification: sixityl Six day until Izzie and I head off to California for Christimas

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  4. DP, who said anything about an American? You should read more carefully, luv - even the jokes.

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  5. But you said "dollar". I know, I've got it. That must be how those Canadian folk talk!

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  6. DP, there is the dollar and the "momma", which point to the US. Some of the folks deep in the isolated hill country of Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia speak in a dialect that is not much evolved from its roots somewhere in England, perhaps Yorkshire. My deepest apologies.

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