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Rainy Day Fun By Florence Hartman Copyright 2000 Florence Hartman

A poem about rainy day's activities in years gone by.

Rainy Day Fun When he was young, my Grandpa tells They didn't have TV And even cars were kind of scarce Which sure seems strange to me.   They had no fridge or freezer And no electric Fryer. The clothes were scrubbed and hung outdoors. They had no washer-dryer.   There were no airports anywhere. The travel was by train, And if they went to foreign shores, They went by ship, not plane.   If course they had no VCR, No Saturday cartoons. I asked him, "Just what did you do On rainy afternoons?"   He looked at me and with a smile He very gently said, "We did something quite important, Mv dear child - we read."