Every generation except mine sucks

Every generation except mine sucks

By: Herbert Ledbetter

The 133 year-old man.

People these days don't know diddly squat about anything. Take it from me, I'm 133 years old and society sucks now.

When I was growing up people knew how to get stuff done. When I was just 4 years-old, my family became the first family in Morristown, Indiana to have a telegraph, and we knew how to use it. I was able to walk when I was 9 months old and I could use the telegraph like a pro right after we got it. I like to think that I was really smart as a child, but now that I think about it, every child in my day was smart, unlike today's kids who go to sub-standard school and listen to music by Justice Beaver, Katy Pear and that Gal that wants to be called Maybe. It doesn't help that our leadership cant find their own penny farthing. This President Barrek O-Mama seems like a nice guy, but I've heard of his little plan to make sure everybody has a telephone in their bedroom. That's just plain numskullery. The bedroom is for sleeping and never anything else.

Kids are way too spoiled for their own good. I walked through the general store and there were about 50 different kinds of gum! That's crazy! I was in my twenties when the first chewing gum came out. Before gum was invented, we would chew on tree bark. I remember it well . . . going outside on a warm spring day, ripping a strip of bark off the old maple tree and chewing on it for more than 5 hours! Now that is living. Yep, the way I grew up was the only way to be raised and I feel sorry for people who were raised in any other time either before or after me since they never got to experience life they way it was meant to be experienced, my way, the right way.