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    >   My father brought a Encyclopedia Britannia which I loved reading.   
      
   We had te 1867 kleather+silver bicentenniel edition of Encyclopedia Britannica,   
   & also a World Book set.   
      
    >   I would just grab a volume at random, to start, and read from cover to   
    > cover.  Later I would read it starting with Volume One.   
    >   That disappeared in a move when I was around 13/14.   
      
   I did tthat, too, but more often, I'd gran a ramdom one, start reading, then   
   start chassing citations to read more on a subject that caught my interest. (We   
   also had the yearly update volume from '68 til '80, as I was long one from home   
   by then & my younger sibs only used the Worldbook set.)   
      
    > > Yup. My tv, until I was 12, was limited to watching with my parents   
    > > whatever they were watching,    
      
    >   Same here.     
    >   Until I was 18, and on my own, there was only one tv in the house.  And   
    > before cable was thought of and only three or four channels.   
    >   Now I don't even have a tv.  Got rid of it years ago.  And I don't miss   
    > it.   
      
   Yup, we had the same, 3 or 4; likely a different set! :D    
      
   Got cable in our town in '78 & my dad got it, as his Saturday wrestling had   
   moved channels. . . I was stikl the remote, of course, & my dad would ask me to   
   put it on 10, & I'd ask "channel tewn, or number ten?" as I couldn't not   
   consider the difference & try to clue into the number he was giving me from the   
   post-delivered TV gUide(remember it?); eventually he started saying "channel   
   10(local)" or "number 10(ABC from Seattle); channel 10 moved to 13 with cable &   
   10 was 4. . . (now ABC's on 2, wheere our first on-screen TV Listing was, also   
   the old video game consoles! Like the oribinal Pong my dad borrowed one weekend   
   from a workmate; he was enrtaptured by the tech; I was already blase at 11, in   
   '78)   
      
    > > Because I was, thank God, raised properly, I did know right from wrong.   
      
    >   Same here.   
      
   Makes a nice differtence, erxcept we now know all too well what happens to   
   thosewhgo weren't. I used to get mad at them all, but now I just pity them.   
      
   Aging puts everything into new perspectives, eh?   
      
    > > First saw & rode a city bus at age 19.   
      
    >   I guess I was around 10 at the time.  Had a ride to school then get home   
    > on my own.   
    >   Today a 10 year-old riding a bus alone would cause a lot of people to go   
    > into a swoon.   
      
   Was it a city bus or dedicated schoolbus?   
      
    > > Naturally, I sat in the first seats I found empty   
      
    >   I like to ride in back.  That way I can keep an eye on what's going on   
    > around me.   
      
   I get that; I did that when on Gryhound, going cross-country.   
      
    > > When older folk, especially witgh canes, entewred the bus, I was up like a   
    > > shot &6 moving back   
    >     
    >    At my age that is getting more and more rare.  :)   
      
   I get that.   I'm allowed per my disability (using a cane when not on my   
   wheelchair) but I got wearied of riding because the only ones who got up to   
   give me a seat were white haired seniors who maty well havew needed the seat   
   that day (likely they'd only sat because there wasn't a lot of choice at the   
   ti8mie)   
      
   So, now, with a wheelchair, I have my own bays to park at & be secured; I might   
   'accidentally' run over & scuff the $400 Nike "kicks" of those college kids   
   sprawled in the seniors' seat, but never a senor, except once I bumped an 88yo   
   lafy's shoes (nor harm but she began caterwalling, to force me to be a   
   gentleman & accept her reparation dsemand of my buying her a drink at her care   
   home's pub night(that night); at $1 a drink, & bext door to my place, how could   
   I not?! It was fun -- git my arse whupped by a 102-year-old gent, twice, in   
   Checkers!  Danced with my 'date' & a few others, up when I could, in my chair   
   when I needed to.  I like older music (only as far bac, usually, as Big Band /   
   WW2 era; they were more into what your parents must've listened to as kids. . .   
      
    > > Personally I think this goes with the loss of religion being a part of   
    > > modern society/culture.   
      
    >    Agreed.   
      
   You've had a few more years to observe the change than I. . .   
      
   What year were you born? I'm only as far back as 1967.   
      
   Your friend,   
      
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