[Cowperson]

I remember seeing my first calculator in school and thinking that must be a helluva lot easier to use than the slide rule I was carrying around. It was like magic. WTF? I think the first ones you saw in school were like $100 - which is about $1000 now - and then they'd get stolen. The rich kids bought them and the poor kids acquired them.

My grandfather and grandmother lived on the edge of our dusty prairie town and you'd use stacks of old Readers Digest to wipe your bum. You pumped rusty water out of a well when you were at their place.

Breakfast cereal was broken up bread in a bowl of milk with some sugar thrown in. Thanks Gramma!!! WTF? Even then you'd wonder WTF.

I remember watching the Leafs win the Cup in black and white and then, a few years later, marvelling at colour tv and the Flyers having an unbelieveable orange uniform as they won the Cup. WTF?

Going over the handlebars of the bike and skidding on your shoulders along a gravel road . . . . . getting up, getting back on, going home, hoping it was going to heal up fairly fast. Antiseptic? Doctors? Fuggedaboudit.

Falling out of trees. Kids probably still do that.

Smart guys in school driving down main street in hot rods with the radio blaring . . . . the timeless method for picking up chicks in dusty prairie towns. One older lady client of mine said that worked in the 1930's too, just as it does today. Some things never change.

Cowperson