About Old Stuff?

I've come to the conclusion that I really like old shit. Well, I don't mean old 'shit', I mean old stuff.

I started shaving with a brush and shaving soap a few years ago. I think I got the idea from and old episode of Gunsmoke or something like that. I liked the way it looked and have used that shaving method ever since. I don't use a straight razor though, I guess I've seen to many slasher movies and don't want to cut my own throat.

I like oldies music, and some old television shows. I used to really like the old science fiction show Star Trek, but I have stopped watching it all the time because I found it frustrating. If the old series is about the new future I decided it wasn't worth the grief.

I also used to belong to a history book club, but I stopped taking those books as well. I probably would have stayed with them if they had charged old prices for books about old stuff, but when I wrote them and suggested it they ignored me, so I stopped the subscription.

I don't like old food. Apparently everyone decided they don't like that because they started to put dates on stuff so you would know it was old. I suppose that's so you don't get food poisoning or something like that. I guess that's a good idea, putting dates on food that is. If they had done that a few hundred years ago or so maybe there would have been no bubonic plague outbreak. The plague was evidently caused by rats, or the fleas on them. I don't know if rat was on the menu in those days, but if it was it's probably one of the reasons we have warnings on our food. If people still eat rat today you have to wonder what the warning says on the package. It's probably something like 'WARNING, if you eat this rat after its expiration date you might get the plague'

The funny thing about old stuff is that everything is old the second after you have used it, eaten it, opened it, watched it or put it on. Cars are old the minute you drive them off the new car lot which is a bad thing. Houses are old after you've lived in them for a while. If you've lived in a house for a long, long time (a hundred years or so) however, old is good. In fact, they put your house on a register to tell everyone that your house is very old and they make sure no one can tear it down and put up something new.

I guess thats the reason I like old stuff, it's tried and true, unless it has an expiration date, then it's just old, and it might give you the plague.