fuel his car at a local gasoline station only to find a long line already established, prior to daybreak. Sometimes the station ran out of gas and those waiting on line, sometimes for hours, were dismissed. As many would surmise, fighting and arguing were also prevalent. Father was also given the task of fueling mother’s car. In the neighborhood, people were being robbed of gasoline during the night time through siphoning. Mother and father then purchased gasoline caps with locks.
In addition to the above aggravation, there were also shortages of certain products including sugar, coffee, Tuna fish, bread, and toilet tissue which required mother to purchase large quantities of these items when found available in stores. Later in the 1970’s, there was a water shortage where restaurants were required to stop serving water to customers unless water was specifically requested. During World War II, there was a vegetable oil shortage.
Mother had discovered a recipe for apple fritters that our family much enjoyed. We raved about how delicious this food was and so mother made these apple fritters on a frequent basis. After weeks of eating apple fritters, I however began to tire of eating this same food regularly. Politely and with consideration for mother, I decided to keep this thought to myself. A short time later when apple fritters were served again, father noticed carpet nails in his apple fritter. Bellowing, he told everyone not to eat these apple fritters and inquired of mother on how these carpet nails came to be in the fritters. Mother had no idea until she searched a bag of flour stored under an all purpose kitchen drawer that contained some hardware items. The bag of flour contained many carpet nails that apparently spilled from the top drawer into the bag of flour used in the recipe for the apple fritters. After being attacked by the family for this inattentiveness, mother never prepared apple fritters again.
Retrospective: Countries that promote tourism as a main source of income usually are blessed with beautiful natural resources. These countries should realize that a considerable number of potential visitors may not want to visit a country where many of the native people live in poverty. Vacations are to have a good time and relax, not to get depressed over the plight of people living in the country. A fair and intellectual discussion on creationism is most times not offered in secular school textbooks. Abortion is not an individual moral issue. Abortion harms everyone in the society. The truth was not provided to students regarding the birth control pill. This method and other methods of birth control (refer to the commentary on Abortion), can cause early abortion subjecting people to a wrath of God specifically lodged against the individual and the society. Some people feel uncomfortable discussing private, personal matters with other people of general acquaintance therefore causing perhaps, rebellious behavior. The reading of perverted and other immoral books influences people in a detrimental way. The interpreting of many books was a priority in schools and in media reviews of literature during this era, while The Bible was largely ignored and if read or mentioned, was left without interpretation by most readers. As many people protested the approval of abortion in the United States, evil doers in positions of power and authority created various hardships for people that resulted in the population once again, agreeing to accept more evil in their lives. Preoccupations with societal immoralities resulting in frequent problems cause people to become inattentive to tasks at hand likely resulting in more frequent accidents, satisfying an agenda of evil to inflict harm on people.