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| | From:  emubobber1 (Original Message) | Sent: 11/2/2003 1:20 AM |
REFECTIONS
t seems to some of us that they are buiding staircases steeper than they used to be. The risers are higher, or there are more of them or something. At any rate, it's harder to make two steps at a time. Nowadays, it's all we can do to make one step at a time.
Another thing we've noticed is the small print that they're using. Newspapers are getting further and further away when we hold them,
and we have to squint to make them out. The other day I had to back halfway out of a telephone booth to read the number on the coin box.
It's ridiculous to suggest that persons of our age need glasses, but the only way we can find out what's going on is to have somebody read aloud to us and that's not very satisfactory because people speak in such low voices these days, that we can't hear them very well.
Every thing seems further away than it used to be, it's twice the distance from my house to the station now,
and they've added a fair sized hill that I've never noticed before.
The trains leave sooner, too; I've given up running for them because they start faster when I try to catch them.
They don't put the same material into clothes anymore either, all our suits have a tendency to shrink,
especially round the waist or in the seat of the pants, andthe laces they put in shoes nowadays are much harder to reach.
Even the weather is changing, it's getting colder in the winter, and the summers are hotter than they used to be.I'd go away if it wasn't so far. Wood is tougher when I try to chop it. Draughts are more severe, too ; it must be the way they build the windows here.
I got to thinking about all this while I was shaving this morning. I stopped for a moment and looked at my refection in the mirror. They dont seem to use the same kind of glass in the mirrors anymore.
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