Olden Times

Back in the old days, like the 1960's, when a mother wanted to communicate with a son who had moved a distance away, she would write a letter.  Of course there was the telephone, but in those days telephone calls were pretty much reserved for special occasions.  It was expensive to call, and to converse for more than a few minutes.  So the letters would come, not that often really, but often enough to elicit either minor annoyance or amusement on the part of the recipient. The envelopes would often contain newspaper clippings or written accounts of what was happening "back home,"  and the reaction would be that if he was interested in the hometown news, he wouldn't have moved away in the first place.  So young, so supercilious, so cruel.    
      But letter writing is in the past now, replaced by Email or  FaceBook.  And their use bears the unwritten rule----no communications should be more than twenty words, and that's stretching it.  LMFAO