The grandmother's birthday
Everybody is happy in grandmother’s house celebrating a great event: today is her 70th birthday. A girl, who is 12 years old, is talking to her grandmother and she is very interested in her talk.
Girl: When you were my age, what did you play?
Grandmother: We played on the street, or inside the house.
Girl: didn´t you have videogames or board games?
Grandmother: No, there weren´t but I with my friends.
Girl: What did you play?
Grandmother: Out of the house, we played hopscotch, wheelbarrow races or skipping rope. Inside the house, we played hide and seek or musical chairs. I against my friends in musical chairs and wheelbarrow races.
Girl: And what was your favorite?
Grandmother: We liked playing all the games; I loved playing hopscotch and skipping rope. Because I , that is why I was thin and agile
Girl: Did you talk to your friends on the phone to play together?
Grandmother: No, the telephone was not common; I liked walking to their homes or they to my home
Girl: if they lived far away, did you walk to their houses?
Grandmother: yes, taxis or buses were not common either.
Girl: When do you do your homework did you use your computer?
Grandmother: No, there were not computers, all my homework was done by hand, I by hand; my handwriting was beautiful.
Girl: And if you want to investigate what did you do?
Grandmother: We went to the library; we to the library because we could read books.
I romantic novels
Girl: And did you watch TV?
Grandmother: When I was older than you are, my dad bought a television and if I helped Mom to cook, my dad let me watch TV. All the family movies together, my mom made popcorn and everybody ate.
However, I did not like a thing; I up to change channels.
Girl: Why?
Grandmother: Because there was no remote control
Girl: Ahhhh and how did you help in the kitchen?
Grandmother: I fruit water.
I peeled the fruit and ate some of them. And I strawberry cakes, it was for special events such as birthdays
Girl: Well, I the cakes you make!
Grandmother: Yes, because they are made with love.
Girl: And when did you get married?
Grandmother: When I was 16, at that time it was customary to get married very young
Girl: Did you married?
Grandmother: Yes and not, because I my family every day;
I did not clothes.
But I with your grandfather because he was a good person.
My greatest happiness was when your father was born, I care of him; he was like a doll. The only thing I did not like was diapers.
I his diapers I used a lot of water because
I them when they were dirty even with plastic globes! there were not disposable diapers!.
Girl: How disgusting!
Grandmother: No, because I your father, well I think I did a great job. Hey, listen, someone is calling us; it is time to go to the dining room.
Girl: That is good, I love eating your strawberry cakes.