re: It wasn't that long ago that "_____"

The OT didn't exist. The horror.

You could write a “counter check” at the store. Local stores had blank check pads from the two banks in town on the counter by the register.

You picked your bank, filled out a check, and signed it. Didn’t even have to write an account number (if we had them). Your signature would make it work. This was in the 70s to maybe early 80s.

In January 2005, Youtube didn't exist.

You could say "fig" with no repercussions

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I am only 57 but I remember our phone number had 2 letters at the start of it, think it was JA2-3282 not old enough for a party line though

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I'm 65 and remember party lines and of course the two letter JA for Jackson, WH for Whitehall, TW for Twinbrook, etc.

How much better sheets smelled when hung on a line outside instead of being shoved in a dryer.

When you had to watch your fingers when wringing out clothes on those old style washers with the two roller pins on top that your clothes went through to remove water.

When stoves actually had pilot lights that burned 24/7.

Many homes, like the first one I lived in, had the electric meter INSIDE the house and the meter reader had to come in to check it.

For $1 you could go to the neighborhood show and get in and have enough left over to get a soda and box of popcorn.

Hell, I could do this all day, but I'll spare you folk.

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You had to get up to change the tv channel

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On that note: no interactive guide menu. Channel 4 scrolling all day.

Nothing was worse than wanting to see what was on channel 30 and when you turned in the guide channel you had just missed it.

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Where I was in GA, in 95, a pack of smokes was $2 even. If you bought Basics, it was $1.25 if you bought a whole carton. $0.99 smokes would have to be earlier than 95. Or maybe you lived in tobacco country?

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When I was a kid, it was OK for me to go to the store to buy cigarettes for my dad. They cost $.35 a pack back then for factory made cigarettes, or you could spend $.15 for Bugle or Target tobacco in a pouch that came with papers to roll your own.

The Mom & Pop neighborhood store owner often had 2 or 3 packs of cigarettes open to sell at 2 for $.05, that way he could make $.15 more a pack selling them loose.

My mom didn't have electricity as a kid.

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In May of 2001 gas was $.99 in LA.

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It was 23-27 cents a gallon when I started buying it.
She had to be hot stuff to spend $5 on a weekend date!

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It wasn't that long ago that "_____"

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parents drove around smoking in the car with all the windows up and the kids in the back

Mine did, well dad anyway. Mom didn't smoke