Our changing times.

[Sqad]

I have breakfast most mornings with a man and his wife, he being 89yrs old and she being 85yrs old, both bright and alert.
He was in WW2 in the R.A.F flying Blenheim aircraft with Coastal Command and when the German battlleship Scharnhorst and pocket battleship Prinz Eugen, surrounded by seven destroyers and a flotilla of 70 support vessels, made the famous Channel dash in broad daylight, his was one of the squadrons orderded to intercept the armada.

My point: …..they do not smoke, they have been married for 65yrs and are a pleasure to talk too.

Yesterday, at breakfast, they had a sort of family reunion and mrs sqad and I were invited to join them.

Son…smoked incessantly and had been married and divorced three times.
Daughter….smoked incessantly and had been married twice.
Granddaughter (1) smoked incessantly, had a child with an unnamed man and was co habiting with another man.
Granddaughter (2).Smoked incessantly, hair looked unwashed, ring in nose and 6 months pregnant.

No point to the story really………………or is there?

[pericat]

Were the kids/grandkids interesting to talk to at all

[mrs.chappie]

Sqad - man says to new girlfriend, "Do you smoke after sex?"

Girlfriend replies, "Dunno, I've never looked".

(The old ones are the best).

[pericat]

The old nature V nurture debate !

[Sqad]

peri...yes they were quite interesting.

No nature versus nurture.......just a little story for you.

[dothawkes31]

Backtracking slightly, if the son and daughter have been brought up in an RAF environment they maybe felt the need to not conform in later life, if their father was an officer maybe they went to boarding school and so there could be very deep reasons that they have lived their life in such a contrast to their parents. Only a random guess though.

[pericat]

Smoking is unfortunately a sign of the times - this generation are not learning

[Sqad]

dot....maybe.

peri ..exactly.

[pericat]

I was told by my 12 year old this morning that her generation don't watch everything they say to each other like my generation - that they don't take offence as much. She could buy and sell me

[Sqad]

"She could buy and sell me"......with or without the leggings? LOL

[dothawkes31]

My 10 year old grandson asked me a few things today:

Was I alive when shakespeare was.
Was i alive when Jimiu Hendrix was.
Was George Best the best footballer ever.
(they are doing the 1960s in history and shakespeare in english)

he also said he only realised he was alive when he was 6.

After abit of discussion he means he can only remember being 6 years old onwards!!

[pericat]

LOL off to the fair bye

[Sqad]

dot.....LOl LOL well, were you?

[Sachs]

Lol sqad,
what's a ring in the nose got to do with anything? Was she a nice person? ;0)

[Sqad]

sachs....how can someone with a ring in their nose be a nice person........be fair!!!