Posts Tagged ‘breakdown social structure’

There was an old man I shared breakfast with most every morning at the local café, he was 96 and told of finding buffalo skulls as a kid off toward a neighboring community. This old man shared many stories about all sorts of experiences, like being a night walker on the pipeline back in 1935 to check for leaks. Said he killed 10-12 rattlers every night with the light of a coal oil lamp. I asked him about the good ole days and he said nix on that “no such thing”. He says “Why I wouldn’t go back to those times for the world” “Air Conditioning” “Best thing ever happened” says he. Well I truly have to agree, living where I did and still do and growing up without air conditioning was gruesome.   That 10 inch oscillating fan didn’t do much, just kept the mosquitoes blown away.  But life was grand and…