Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for March 31, 2016

I guarantee my great-grandfather had no electricity… when living on an Amish plantation!

Soiooo Bev what’s the question, hmmm?

California, about 30 miles from where I live now as a matter of fact.

Hahaha … Bev had to get the question!

Serves you right, Bev…. after all that work I did for you during your long incarceration,

(Does the air smell sweeter now that you’re free?)

Anyway… in a hospital!We were civilised.Did you think I’m so old I was born in a log cabin?

Where were you born?

Me? Jersey City, NJ.

In the state of innocence. Didn’t stay long.

The Appalachian corner of Ohio; we all had electricity (thanks, FDR!), but indoor plumbing was by no means universal.

I exist, therefore I am. . . . an Army Brat. I have no feelings toward the state I was born in and left 4 months later for Germany.

Montreal.

What?

Southern Wisconsin.

Was your first cry that loud?

I was born in Santa Ana, California in a small hospital that has long since been demolished. We had all all the amenities of the time. I think I would have Eliot (the little brat) look up electricity and learn about when it was discovered and how we got to where we are today.

The correct response here is: “No, we had to watch TV by candlelight.”

Church Home Hospital, Baltimore City.

My younger sister did actually ask our dad once “When you were a little boy, and George Washington was president…” He stopped her, there. “I wasn’t here yet. (He was from Melbourne, Australia) Go ask your mum. She’ll know.”

I resemble that remark. Born on the South Platte between Denver & Nebraska. On the prairie we used to beat impudent kids. (Mostly just threaten, a light smack now & then to get their attention.)

Another Montrealer here now living in Ottawa

TonyDowntown Los Angeles in the California Hospital, a huge old Victorian Pile that has long since crumbled to dust.And it was a Cesarean birth, its a wonder I’m even here.And the reason I’m an only child! lol

I have got to get hearing aids,……. what?

QOTD #2: A question I ask often as my father has hearing aids but refuses to wear them before he takes his shower. Not a problem except he doesn’t do that until after noon, as he says: “It’s nice to be retired.”

@TonyDon’t know for sure, I had my eyes closed the whole time.

Marshalltown, Iowa. In a hospital that has been completely rebuilt since then. But, at 74, I suspect most hospitals have been rebuilt or replaced since then.