There are so many reasons why these years are better than years in the past.....major things,  like better medicine, better safety features in vehicles, better working conditions and so on.

There are worse things too, also major, you know, things like pollution, crime and whatnot.

But its the little,small things that make me smile and make me happy that someone thought of them.

Things like the screw-off cap on the large cartons of juice...no more of the bendy/foldy spout. Man...how I hated that..especially when sometimes it wouldn't fold in and out properly and you'd then have to try and slide a knife in the seal, and it would always cut the carton in the wrong spot so that that juice would come in in four streams, two of which would invariably go on the floor.

And the plastic push-in spout on the smaller juice cartons...whoa....so much better than trying to pull up the corner of the carton and cut that heavy, waxy cardboard into a proper sized spout. And you know how that always worked....you'd have a firm grip on the carton, and the minute you cut the cardboard corner, the air would escape, your hand would squeeze the box and no matter how hard you tried, again, juice all over the place. No wonder my kids hardly ever had juice. It was far too stressful