Saturday, August 02, 2008
OK, not to inflate your expectations, but...
I listened to this today on my iPod and had to share it. It's a humorous tale, made more so in that it was told by a 94 year old woman as she related a story of her youth.
Sometimes we tend to create these fanciful ideas about our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, that they were prudish and cared little about the attractions of male and female. That discussions of love, sex and relationships were at most minimal.
Granted, they were much less graphic and "in your face" compared to today's mores. Still, in their own way they went about the task of attracting the attention of the opposite sex in ways not so dissimilar to today's youth.
Betty Jenkins tells a tale that, except for the technology of the times, could very well be any young woman's story today, except that today it probably wouldn't have blown up in her face.
Read about it on NPR's Story Corp website and listen here...
"We are all in the same boat on a stormy sea and
we owe each other a terrible loyalty." - G. K. Chesterson
Labels: Betty Jenkins, humor, NPR, Story Corp
