We sorta feel sorry for you modern day country boys and girls, and the problems you face in entertaining yourselves. And strangely enough, the thing that must bother you is not the quality of entertainment, which you have to face, but the quantity, that besets you each day. We find it very hard to comprehend the amount of mental strain which confront you each day as you have to decide each day whether you are going to watch television, play the radio, listen to the record player, go to the movies, decide which movies you are going to select for use on the VCR, what to record on your tape recorder, which person to call on your cell phone, what pictures or events to record on your camera, etc. Just think, old Country Boy is exhausted just after listing a few of the entertainment items, which these rural children have to contend with today. And when you consider the fact that we could add hundreds of other items and activities to the list – like jukeboxes, "cruising" in a car, "hanging out" at a fast food establishment, for instance – you get the idea of what these teenagers have to be confronted with each day.

On the other hand, Grandma and Grandpa didn’t have to worry about such things when they were growing up. They had enough chores assigned to them in the course of a day to keep them busy from sunup to sundown; things like slopping the hogs, feeding the horses, washing dishes, helping with the washing, chopping wood, and so on. It barely left enough time in the evening to think about going to town on Saturday.

So, we have taken a long way around to briefly tell you about a couple of things that country children used to look forward to when they lived on the farm.

Going to town on Saturday was one of them. In the earlier day, living on the farm could be a rather lonesome thing until the mailman came by, or the Singer Sewing Machine man showed up.

So it was quite a treat to go to town and see all those city people, and look at the goods in all those stores. Just that made the trip worthwhile. ‘Course, if the boys had come across a loose dime or so, they probably would end up at the movies to watch the heroics of cowboys like Tom Mix, Hort Gibson, and Ken Maynard. And the girls? Well, they were so satisfied if they could meet up with a couple of their friends and then walk up and down the sidewalks, looking at dresses in the store, and trying to catch the eyes of a few unsuspecting boys. Going to town on Saturday was enough reward for a week of hard work by these country boys and girls.

Also, there was another thing for children growing up on the farm to look forward to on the weekend, especially on Sunday afternoon. That was the time when many rural folks went visiting with neighbors and kinfolks. This activity didn’t require a formal invitation. You just showed up and the men spent most of the afternoon sitting on the porch talking, the women folks stayed inside to talk, trade recipes, holler at the kids sometimes, quilt, sort scraps for quilt tops, and discuss aches and pains; and the children would run around outside, yelling, screaming, and getting into various other types of mischief.

All in all, there is much to be said for going to town on Saturday and visiting with the kinfolks and neighbors on Sunday; when you compare it with what the world has to offer country folks and their children today. Just think about that half-time show at the recent Super Bowl – for instance!