A World gone away

There was a world where guys were married with three children at age thirty and working in secure jobs for companies. Their wives weren’t working. They had two cars. They lived in a house with a garage, basement and attic, with a front and back yard, and neighbors. Back then, no one in our parents generation was outsourced, downsourced,and there wasn’t a Home Office. There was a Home. On Friday, when my Dad put down his attache case with woerk in it, it stayed leading against the wall behind the living room chair by the door, and wasn’t touched until he left on Monday. WOrk never called him at home. There were no townhouses or condos, there were apartments, and housing developments. And in town people could make a living selling you hardware, TVs, office supplies, books, records. ANd there were usually a couple industries too, big companies were people lived in the town and worked for twenty-five years and received a pension not a useless 401k.

And that world is gone for most people,

It was a world I grew up in,