Anyone who is my age or older (if there really are that many people older than I am...) has said something to the effect of "when I was your age" or "when I was young..."  I know it's annoying to those of you who have yet to climb "over the hill," but I'm going to indulge myself here.  In my day, we were not spoiled like kids are today with their cell phones and their iPods and their coupons.

When I was growing up, we didn't have any of this flashy stuff.  And we sure didn't have any coupons for them.  Heckfire, we mostly didn't even have stores.  Those were the days when men were men.  We raised our own cotton and our own sheep and our women made the clothes for the family.  We didn't have any cute logos across the chest showing what store we had bought our clothes from.  And we didn't have any coupons to help us get things for cheap.  We worked, dadgumit.

Nowadays, kids just traipse on over to the nearest store and bust out their Mommy's credit card and their coupons and they head on back home.  There's no moral value to it.  They don't know what it is to rassle the sheep into the dip to keep it from getting too many insects on its greasy hide.  They don't know what it is to pull a heavy bag behind you down the rows as you pick the cotton with faltering fingers.  No sir, they just have everything handed to them and half the time they're too lazy to put their hands out to take what's given.

So just as soon's I find my bifocals and my cane, I'm a going over to the typewriter (I got me a new electric one) and see if I can plug it in.  If I can, I'm going to write to my Congressman.  We'll get that gold standard back again, and we'll sure as shooting get them coupons banned.  Read more here.