Obama and Me
Woman in the Middle | July 17, 2012You know you are getting older when….the president of the United States is the same age you are! The fact that President Obama was born the same year I was is just wrong. Aren’t presidents supposed to be gray-haired and MUCH older than I am????? Oh, that’s right, I have gray hair myself. Sigh!
The age thing was brought home to me recently when I heard a sound bite on the radio of the Prez talking about childhood vacations staying in Howard Johnson motels and how exciting it was to swim in the pool, no matter how small it was. Then, after the swim how thrilling it was to go down the hall to check out the ice and vending machines. Wow, that brought back childhood memories!
I grew up in a middle class family but the money never stretched to a pool in the back yard. So when we headed out on those road trips to Texas, Tennessee, and Arkansas to visit relatives those little motel pools were very inviting and exciting. Just like President Obama, I didn’t care how big, or small, the pool was, I just cared that there WAS a pool! And then the ice machines! What wonders of modern civilization! Believe me, the ice maker in the freezer at home was still a ways off for us and I didn’t know anyone with such a device, either. So to see a machine that made all that ice automatically, well that was quite the wonderous thing!
I wonder what vacation memories my children are going to reminisce about? I have a feeling I know one of them. We have never had cable television in our house so a hotel room always meant, to my kids, exciting and new TV offerings! I have a feeling that is what they will remember – the wonders of 27 channels of TV in a hotel room somewhere in the southwestern United States.
Prez Obama isn’t that old. He’s one of the youngest prez we’ve had.