Types for Selling – Grandpa’s case

Types for Selling

4. Grandpa’s case

There’ve been some changes made since Grandpa was a boy. Today’s kids don’t chop firewood-they turn up the thermostat. They never lock the barn-just push a button to raise the garage door. The only time the family sits down to talk is when the picture tube goes dead.

Small wonder that senior citizens grow nostalgic when they see an old log cabin with chimney smoke curling into the frosty air; a cozy sight that once spelled Home Sweet Home.

Grandpa talks about the time when Melba was the toast of the town and Nordica the belle of the ball; when a seersucker suit went with each croquet set and Ma sat with her own babies. He reminisces about cronies who never heard a radio; nobody knew about joint returns or guided missiles-but they did know their readin’, writin’, and ‘rith-metic back when folks went to Church instead of to a tavern on Sunday night.

Grandpa misses the clippetty clop of horses’ hooves when horsepower on the hoof drew swaying surreys and rumbling drays. Traffic was free from hazards because horses used stable thinking and had sense enough not to collide. He can make quite a case out of people losing their horse sense since they lost those horses.

He says that simplicity has gone from our daily lives. Those yesterdays were filled with hard work, brutality and exploitation among the laboring classes but they were hardly desperate days. It’s our luxury and leisure that brought on our present anxiety and despair. Grandpa always ends up saying, “Times are much worse now than they were long ago.”
(But the other side says otherwise!)

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