This time I just completely felt in love with the part where Wheelan explains how does our grandmothers view the prices of last century (50 cents for milk, one buck for meat) and what the reality actually is.
Every september our family travels to visit my grandma living 100 miles from Bratislava. First of all my sister and I have birthday and secondly there is a fair in her home village. Cotton candy, cheesy music and of course fun rides and carousels...everything is there. My family already knows all owner of every single ride. They live a nomadic life and every single year come to this place. My grandmother recognise all these rides from her childhood (yes, that is how old they are). Every-time we wanted to go to a ride we bagged her for money. She of course every-time gave us some but never forgot to tell us: "one crowner then, three euros now". I always felt kind of bad for her. I tried to explain her that money gain or loose on their value and tried to construct a (vague) theory about communism and their use of finances but I have never really succeed in explaining her that she is not paying more money that she used to. I understood that I was right but never really knew why exactly. While reading this passage from chapter nine everything all at once started to make sense. I felt in love with that time analogy and m grandmother will eventually fall in love with it too. It so simple but so logic.
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