Things

The other day I asked my son, to take me to pick up our car, which was done with its tune-up.

When we got in his car, my son pointed out that a tune-up actually involves plugs and points, and our car has none.

I had to laugh at that. The word tune-up is so much a part of my unthinking vocabulary.

As I waited in line to pick up my car, I start thinking about all the little phrases, and objects, there were so much a part of my everyday life that are gone now.

“Tune-up” goes back to my teens, when m...