I hope some of you experienced this growing up
Dec 1, 2023 13:17:21 #
FrumCA wrote:
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Sure as hell ain't the country we grew up in any more. The newer generations missed the best. They criticize our generation a lot but they really wish they could have what we had.
Dec 1, 2023 13:22:02 #
FrumCA wrote:
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I can identify with all of these no unfortunately those days will never come back kids nowadays don’t know what they are missing with their eyes glued to screens
Dec 1, 2023 13:22:15 #
in 60 or 70 years today's kids are going to be doing the same those of us in our 70s and 80s are doing today... reminiscing about the good old days of cell phones, jet skis, etc. It seems that every generation thinks their "good old days" were the best of times!! And for every generation that is true.
Dec 1, 2023 13:33:11 #
keywest305 wrote:
Here in Maryland, I have seen snow predicted two days before and school canceled then wake up and no snow on the ground and weatherman says it went around us. Ridiculous. We would wake up as kids and the snow coming down like crazy and listen on the radio for our school to see if it was closed
In my NJ hometown they would sound the fire horn for inclement days when school was cancelled. I can only remember one day that happened - Blizzard of 47'. Our entire school would walk home for lunch. If it was raining and school was cancelled for the after lunch session, a fire horn would blow. We sat quietly listening for the horn in class. "The good old days in Bradley Beach, NJ"
Mark
Dec 1, 2023 13:33:23 #
Ralphoto
Loc: Washington state; now in Pittsburgh
Stuff changes. We, too. A lot of old games have become dangerous. And I never had to wash returnable bottles--just tossed them in a bag, or took one to get a discount on cheaper drink.
Dec 1, 2023 13:36:55 #
Me too! 76 years old but feel great and except for the last item still do some of them! Be well! Ed
Dec 1, 2023 13:50:02 #
You might also add that we (and our parents) elected a government which borrowed huge amounts of money and ran up huge debts to pay for tax cuts, and left the mess to our children.
Dec 1, 2023 14:14:57 #
josh benin wrote:
You might also add that we (and our parents) elected a government which borrowed huge amounts of money and ran up huge debts to pay for tax cuts, and left the mess to our children.
Sadly, we didn't vote for the tax increases. Our representatives made the bills to garner the debt rather than having a line item veto for the President to cut the pork. Also, much of the debt was incurred for wars. On top of that look at all the bailouts of "companies that cannot fail" (cars and banks).
The founding patriots threw a revolution over tea tax. What is our tax rate overall (Local, State, Federal sales and income tax combined? 50% easily) Hmmm.
Freedom is never free.
Dec 1, 2023 14:15:55 #
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Dec 1, 2023 14:23:06 #
All those pretty much apply to me, except that bottle deposit was 2 cents, not five - and all three channels in my metro area signed off at 9:00PM Monday through Thursday and a little later on the weekend.
Dec 1, 2023 14:48:52 #
Dec 1, 2023 15:35:23 #
Oh, those were the days! At times I was lucky to survive some of the things my buddies and I would do. I rolled down the hill inside a steel drum. Dug many a fort in the hillside. Climbed trees out on limbs that even birds would not land on. Ran through burning leaves in the fall. I would ride on the handlebars of a friend's bike as fast as he could peddle down hills. We all had steel wagons with only our tennis shoes as breaks, and we would cheat death riding our "race cars" we would make from boards with wheels from wrecked wagons and baby carriages down the hills of the gravel roads. Road rashes back then were badges of honor stained from the Mercurochrome which stung like the dickens when Mom would patch me up. Empty pop bottles were a penny, then two cents, and by the time I was in high school, the returned bottles were five cents. A fellow could make his fortune back then, assuming he still had both eyes and all of his fingers from playing with the explosive fireworks back then.
Dec 1, 2023 16:33:39 #
Dec 1, 2023 16:36:11 #
and you could walk to the local playground by yourself and not risk ending up with your photo on the back of a milk carton ...
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