My grandmother is over eighty years and has always lived in Trecastagni, a village 15 km from Catania. He spent his childhood and adolescence during the war, the second, and his family was wealthy and has been throughout the twentieth century.
He told me that ..
... on the table is always kept in a jar of leeches , when someone had high blood pressure, these were the scattered on the chest and after a while the blood pressure returned to normal ... the
there was no toilet paper. When you buy meat at a butcher shop that was wrapped in thick paper and straw. The meat was placed in a cool and this card was cut into squares and put in a nail next to the bathroom.
... The toilets did not exist and who the family had to do their business, he went home and made them outdoor a hole in the ground used as a toilet
... the hair that broke after having combed were carefully collected and stored . Periodically passed through the houses who gave money in exchange for hair torn out.
... there was no water outside the well. When they invented the water were all amazed
... in the evening the people gathered at the home of those who had television in black and white. One day the woman said that in future the services would have bought a color TV that broadcast and took it all for mad
... games of the rich were dolls. My grandmother played attacking a string to the leg of a cricket bringing a spasso
Oggi invece siamo in crisi economica, c'è chi non riesce a pagare l'assicurazione della terza macchina; c'è chi, con 4 televisori e 4 telefonini, non riesce ad arrivare alla fine del mese; c'è chi, con un gratta e vinci in mano al giorno, ci parla della crisi della quarta settimana; c'è chi, tra un tiro di sigaretta ed un altro, dice di non potersi permettere una vacanza.
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