Slinky
Generations of American humans differ from one another in many ways, as we grow apart and expand our horizon throughout the years. Somethings that will be seen today, wouldn’t pass a century from yesterday. I seen a protest occur today outside in front of the train station, the protest was about blind people and their white canes. A Wild sight to behold, signs that say “yield to the white cane”. The cops had to bring out the horses, all the horses did was help keep the blind protesters on the sidewalk. A century prior, they would have sent the horses to step on the non blind people and threw the blinds into an asylum with a leash tied to their bed. The saying “never hit a man with glasses” was probably made generations later for movies to act as some sort of propaganda to help prevent getting cuts on your hands and making the weak people even more weaker. There was a point in American history where one of the hottest things out besides World War 2 is a Slinky. This was in the ’40s, the toy was being developed during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s last run and debuted months after Harry Truman’s presidency begun. Its hard to call a Slinky a toy when a Naval Engineer created it. The kids that grew up with nothing but a Slinky must have been some of the toughest people, they were probably as tuff as modern day roofers. Calluses on the palm of their hands and defeating hepatitis from a wet rusty slinky during winter, most of the weightlifters these days wear gloves. These kids were tuff mentally as well, toys of today have to sell you this premade adventure that leads you to a website to watch a video about how to use it because using an imagination will lead to more flintstone vitamins. Those kids in the ’40s were given a tool then they had to just figure it out. It took that generation 30 years to finally switch over to plastic, they loved the sounds that the steel Slinkys made so much that they stalled a bit with Slinky Dogs and Trains.