I am going to date myself...
Remember the TV show, This Is Your Life?
"Each week, an unsuspecting celebrity would be lured by some ruse to a location near the studio. The celebrity would then be surprised with the news that that they are to be the featured guest. Next, the celebrity was escorted into the studio, and one by one, people who were significant in the guest's life would be brought out to offer anecdotes." IMDB review
I was pretty young and impressionable when I watched that show...pigtails and plaid jumper, black patent leather Mary Jane's and white lace socks...sitting in front of a black-and-white TV on an avocado sofa.
Saturday morning cartoons, Lawrence Welk, My Three Sons, The Dick Van Dyke show...
I grew up on a veritable smorgasbord of what are now TV classics.
And I loved them all...still do.
But I have to wonder now how impressionable I was then...
For instance, in one Brady Bunch Show there was a contest to see who could keep the cleanest house...a judge would stop by unexpectedly to rate their home, and if they had the cleanest house, voila! they would win...new appliances I think. You can only imagine how that played out!
I was so naive, that for many years I thought this would happen to our family also...one day, someone would knock on our door and, with checklist in hand, determine whether our house was worthy of a prize.
I wanted a prize so badly that I worked hard at keeping our house spotless.
You got it...no one ever came...but we did have a clean house.
Silly, I know. Childlike...
But back to the series, "This is Your Life"...