Random Thoughts on Society/Aging

[Capfab]

When I was younger, I remember thinking my parents and grandparents were nostalgic; longing for the "days of old". Lately, I can relate.

Remember:

"Are you ready for some Football"? Hank Jr. got me ready!

I could drive all week for $ 20.00.

Etch and Sketch was cool.

Christmas was Christmas, and people would say Merry Christmas!

I'm a small towner, but everybody went to Friday night games.

My little girl will never know a cassette tape, VCR, bread box, CB radio or carburetor.

I didn't fear the future.

[quarterback]

Sadly, I remember the day I went out and forced myself to buy one of those personal computers. Sat it on my desk and turned it on......and just sat there in bewilderment. Had to get a young person to come in and show me how it worked. At that point I Did Fear the future.

[Capfab]

Laying in/on the back dash of our Ford LTD.

Taking it for granted that almost no boys would be in school on opening day of hunting season, including many teachers and Mr. Vance, the principle.

Dressing up to fly.

Canning parties. ( We still can but no neighbors do)

Leaded or Unleaded and Full Service option.

[TimH]

as kids, walked or rode our bikes miles to the creek or someone's stock tank to go fishing or swimming and didn't come home until dinner time..... no way to check in with mom and dad and didn't have much of anything to worry about accept digging up worms or finding bait.

NO WAY i would let my kids do this today.

[dawgkllr]

Chasing the mosquito sprayer truck and ducking in and out of the thick white fog coming from the machine.
Getting up early in the summer and mom dropping us off (or riding our bikes) to the gravel pits to fish all day and no one checking on us until they came to get us in the late afternoon.
wakin up at 5 AM in the winter to go chase cottontails with our old recurves on a vacant property a couple of miles from the house. The police would just drive by and wave as we were walkin to the hunting spot. Now we would be face down, spread eagle and probably tazed just for walkin down the street with an unstrung bow.
Yep, I miss the good ol days!

[boh347]

We were cleaning out the closet at the ranch the other day and I came across some clothes from when I was a kid. Talk about 80’s clothes were horrific.

[GTRH8R]

When I was younger, I remember thinking my parents and grandparents were nostalgic; longing for the "days of old". Lately, I can relate.

Remember:

"Are you ready for some Football"? Hank Jr. got me ready!

I could drive all week for $ 20.00.

Etch and Sketch was cool.

Christmas was Christmas, and people would say Merry Christmas!

I'm a small towner, but everybody went to Friday night games.

My little girl will never know a cassette tape, VCR, bread box, CB radio or carburetor.

I didn't fear the future.

I remember all these...funny about the last comment. My 15 year old had to send a letter for a volunteer job she wants to do and had no idea how to do it. After showing her how to address the envelope, I told her to get a stamp and she looked at me like I just told her to pack up and get out of the house. in 15 years, it has only been emails for her.

[grizzman]

Yeah, you could put a rifle or shotgun in your vehicle in HS to go hunting after school. No one would think twice about it. No one shot up our school.

I remember getting two channels on a B&W TV.

You could still get gas for seventy-five cents a gallon. I could fill up my 66 VW Beetle for under $10 and have money left for a hamburger,coke, and fries.

No one leased land. Hunted a lot on pipeline and high line right of ways.

Had my HS graduation picture made in a leisure suit with a silk shirt.

[Matt_C]

The further we move into the future, the further back I go.

[wow]

.25 a gallon gas, if a gas war was on it was .15 a gal.
We walked, rode a bike, or a horse every where.
Everybody knew everybody in town.

[BrianL]

To change the TV channel was a two person job, you not only had to get UP, but you had to take the pipe wrench outside to turn the antenna, all while yelling back and forth "is it clear yet?"

I rode my bike to White Auto to buy my first 22 lr.

New guns where shown off in the school parking lot. Teachers came out to look as well.

No internet, no cell phones except in the movies, and gas was less than a $1.

Kids over 6, left to play in the morning, and had to be back at dark. Remember no cell phones

[BrianL]

I had 1000s of acres to roam, hunt, ride motorcycles, and just had to ask...

[Bullydog]

I remeber leaving the house at dawn and coming back at dark, with no way for my parents and loved ones to get ahold of me or find me.

Yet, when I got home there were no CPS case workers, freaked out family members or search teams readying the horses to come look for us. Its was just a typical day in the life of a kid.

Simpler times, less stuff to look at, and social media didnt have us all tied to a stupid smart phone all the time.

I truly miss my younger years...

[LuBowhunter]

I remember going to school with a rifle and a shotgun in my truck. Being allowed to miss 1st period just as long as I brought my teacher a picked duck or goose. Missing school on opening day. Just having to ask for permission to hunt any property around town. Crawling countless beds of snow geese until our truck beds were full, then meeting the old timers at the KC hall to clean them for the KC gumbo fundraiser.

[Goldeneagle]

Nailing clamp on sidewalk skates onto 2X4's for a skateboard.

Waiting until after dark and draining the pump hoses at the gas station for mini bike gas.

Getting to wear that cool white belt and be a crossing guard at school.