I was watching the late news last night, and, of course, the top story was the death of new anchor Walter Cronkite. He had retired from being the regular newsman before I was old enough to remember, but is such a legend that his passing is definetely notable.
On the same news cast, they pointed out that McDonalds is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the Happy Meal. This struck me for a couple of reasons. First of all, I myself had my 30th birthday last year September (coming up on 31 in a couple of months). That means that I don't remember a time there were not Happy Meals. I have a lot of fond memories of the fun had with Happy Meals (both the toys and the boxes they came in! LOL!), and the clips they aired with that story brought back some of those happy memories.
Then it occured to me, that I'm having fond memories of fast food meals? I'm not sure what that says about me. I guess all that's left to do is to paraphrase the words of a famous TV man. Thats just the way it is.