We tend to measure everything from a 10D shoe to a terabyte. Our preferences are all over the map. We want the largest television made, yet we watch more stuff on something we can hold in one hand. I do love the fact that I can move a rather large TV by myself. I remember the days it took a crane to move a 35-inch TV.
Some folks want to live miles away from people, then others love the tight packed apartments in crowded cities. I’m a country boy. I think it was Daniel Boone who complained that if he could see the chimney smoke of a neighbor, it was time to move.
Car sizes went from gas-guzzling monsters to coffin-on-wheels back again to semi-tank SUVs. Now, the best theft prevention is a stick shift. It makes you wonder when driver’s licenses will be a thing of the past with only robotic driven cars. Here in the South, I’m sure pickups will always be in style even with drivers wearing skinny jeans.
Speaking of jeans, I remember when my mother bought blue jeans big enough for me to grow into even when I was gaining only two pounds per year. The legs were rolled up with a five-inch cuff. She must have been optimistic. I lost my lunch money in my cuffs when I was in the first grade (no joke). I thought the world was going to end, or I would starve to death. I found the quarter before lunch. Yes, a quarter! That’s how old I am.
I remember when a large church had one hundred attendees. An even larger one was two hundred, and a five hundred attendance was only at a city church that had “First” in its name. Now that has changed as the smaller churches have gotten smaller and the larger churches have become humongous.
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