I watched an episode of what would you do

 They had two actors in a cafe & the boyfriend grabs the girls arm & takes her phone. Trying to force her out of the cafe. One guy stood up for her & time after time women stood up to this guy not knowing he was an actor. No one yelling just telling her she deserved better. The guy even offered her money to get a Uber home.

It made me remember something. I remember being the car in a parking lot of a K mart , my ex beating the crap out of me & I was screaming I mean screaming for help & people walked by got in their cars & drove away. He wanted my credit card so he could go into K Mart & buy things. He eventually took the card & me into the store tears on my face make up running & not one person asked if I was ok or did I need help. I probably saw 50 people that day. Not one person. 

When I got out of that situation I knew I would never walk by someone going through that & put blinders on. There has been more than  one situation that I have opened my mouth & people have been surprised that a 5 ft 1 woman is threatening to knock the teeth out of their mouth. I have called the cops to come & help a lady that my husbnad saw get pushed to the ground & it turns out when the cops got there the guy had warrants & got arrested. She was so thankful he stepped in & I think about her & hope she's ok. 

 

Things I have seen in the past almost 50 years

I was sitting here thinking the other day that one day when I'm dead my great grand kids  will say think of all of the things that grand ma saw in her lifetime.  

It's pretty crazy when I think about it but here is the list

leaded gas - you used to have to ask for unleaded if you had a newer car. My first car took leaded gas

Cable TV- we had a box with a cord that ran across the floor & you had to to position the switch in one of 3 spots to pick your channel

Remote control TV's 

Home computers

VHS -  DVD then Blu Ray Now streaming

8 tracks - vinyl - cassettes - CD's then streaming 

Micro wave ovens which my parents called a radar range

Dial up internet 

car phones - a legit phone that looked like one you had on the wall in your house 

Cordless phones

Cell phones

 Answering machines then voice mail

The birth of shopping chanels

When Amazon only sold books 

The birth of Target , Starbucks , Walmart

Y2K

9-11

Covid

I'm sure there are more for the list & I'll add on as I think of them