“Did you have forks and knives in the old days"” asks a little girl in a lavender dress.
“Yes, we even had spoons!” is the slightly winking response from her elderly companion.
And so begins one of the most charming Q & A sessions since Zach Galifianakis spoke with former President Barack Obama on “Between Two Ferns.”
The recent video from HiHo Kids, a YouTube channel where real kids try new things and talk to interesting people, features some of the sweetest kids meeting and asking an equally lovely 101-year-old woman a range of questions?from the serious to the slightly silly.
Meet Alice, a sharp, white-haired Philadelphia native, who’s sporting a denim shirt that has silver spiders and other bugs pinned to it, and who seems game for any question these kids throw at her.
She first sets the scene for what life was like a century ago. “We didn’t have radio. We didn’t TV. No telephones when I was a little girl!”
“They didn’t have trucks,” she continues. “They had wagons and horses pulled them. It was a long, long time ago.”
As a little girl, she played with the usual assortment of dolls and blocks, but she reveals that she liked “boys things, like marbles and tops” and that at the time she felt that boys were luckier. “I had to wear skirts and stockings, even in the coldest weather?they didn’t have slacks for girls.”

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