One of my Mom’s expressions was “Well, I never” and most of us had heard it enough to realize that the end of that expression was, “heard of such” and therefore she did not have to finish that statement. It was an expression like, “dad-barn it”, dad-gum-it”, “shoot fire”, “what’s the world coming to” and you can add hundreds more. I was wondering  what Mom would say if she were alive today concerning  same sex marriages, about legalized abortions, legalized drugs, nudity on TV and the internet and numerous other happenings. I am pretty sure she would say about either of those subjects, “Well, I never…..” Every morning I read the paper and I am of a different generation than Mom, but as I read even I think, “Well, I never…” I guess it’s just me, that I am an old codger  and not a forward thinking individual and that I am really living in the past, believing in an old fashion book call the Bible. A book that seemingly  has gone out of style and many think it certainly has no place in a modern society such as ours. A younger generation runs our major television networks and movie studios, where most of American’s get their educations, and the stories they want to tell seems to be about explosives, fires, modernistic weapons of destruction, folks killing folks, the more outlandish the death and destruction the better, vampires, far out fantasies and on and on……You know what, I watch mostly sports, because to the rest of that stuff it’s, “Well, I never….”  Thank you, Mom, you were right…. Pete Hester