I friend of mine and I took my sisters little red wagon and went through the ditches (remember when it was OK to toss things out the window of a moving car?) along the highway and collected enough pop bottles to cash in at Safeway to go to the kids movies downtown on Saturday morning. It cost a whole 25 cents each to enter the theatre plus we had enough money left over for pop and candy.



I don't think it was the "good old days" as there were plenty of problems then too (remember the cold war, bomb shelters, bills to pay, race relations and so forth)



But it really was a simpler life. More clear cut issues.

There seemed to be a right and wrong. (My father was right I was wrong even if I did not always agree.)



My father would tell my sister and me "turn off that *&%$#(*! TV and get outside and play. Today it seems to be "turn on that TV and leave me alone.



Today the issues are kind of a muddy grey and right and wrong depends on so many factors it is usually unclear what is really going on.



It is just my view anyway.