Black Fans....

As we are drawing the curtains closed around the house, as

the sun goes around the house, and then finally giving

up the ship, and turning on the window air conditioners...

It made me think back to the 40's and 50's, when I was

a kid.

I was telling a friend of mine, who is about my age...

Do you remember how we kept cool as kids?  You

know, before air conditioners?  She said we had some

kind of fan.. And I said yea.. remember those God

awful black fans we had. They were noisy, as they

rotated back and forth.  And we use to talk in front

of them and they make our voices sound funny.

Also it was before the days, of safety units.. Those

fans would spin around and around, with no guard

on them.. We would even get brave and stick our

fingers in them, to see if we could stop the blades.

Bruising the heck out of our fingers. How we kept

from breaking a finger.  Now people would sue..

Then there was the cars.. we didn't have air conditioners

in them either.  We open the windows.

And somehow we survived.