Things You Never/Seldom See Anymore...

• "Real" Cokes (made with sugar)
• Entertaining shows on television
• Pay telephones
• Strangers who say "thanks" or "excuse me"
• Children with manners
• Quiet movie theatres
• Cashiers who care about customers
• Parents who pay attention to their children
• Proofreading of public documents or signs
• Food products with contents you can pronounce
• Doctors who give spend more than five minutes listening to you
• Doctors who don't automatically distribute Rx slips
• Television shows with actual stories
• Television shows with equal portions of commercials and story
• Gasoline you can afford
• Clothing (or anything else) made in the U.S.A.
• Live customer service
• Written communication
• Land line telephones
• People who pay attention to what they are doing
• Fast food restaurants that serve real food
• Personal pride
• Local newspapers that report local news
• Community pride
• Picture post cards
• Neon signs
• Ice cube trays
• Toys that require imagination
• Children's TV shows not designed to sell products
• Highway billboards
• Drive-in theatres
• Station wagons
• People using brooms to clean their sidewalks
• Push lawn mowers
• Personal hygiene
• Homemade anything
• Free road maps at gas stations
• People focused on driving alone
• Conversations with people who pay attention
• Spontaneity of any type
• Comfortable shoes
• Purses that hold enough
• People who think before they speak