\n\nGrandboy (scrolling through images of the USS Titanic sinking): Wow Gwumpa those are sad pictures. Whoever took them must have been brave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me: O no, these aren’t pictures. They are paintings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grandboy: What? (scrolling) Where are the photos from people who were there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me: They didn’t have mobile phones then. The paintings are made from descriptions of what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grandboy (processing this new information): No cell phones. That’s a hard life, Gwumpa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
—<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yep, grandboy, it was. And your grandchildren will wonder how life was possible before spinal implant networking, back when people drove their own vehicles and even owned them as well.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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