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re: What were things you couldn’t believe we used to do?
Posted on 6/28/20 at 7:26 am to jlovel7
Posted on 6/28/20 at 7:26 am to jlovel7
Calling anybody in your town on a land line and dialing just 4 numbers. Go to the movies and watch the same movie 3 times with cartoons in between. Produce truck used to cruise the neighborhood on Saturdays. Ice cream trucks also. Staying out late during the summer riding bikes all over the neighborhood. Riding bikes out to the local lake and fish. It was over 5 miles.
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Posted on 6/28/20 at 7:26 am to jlovel7
A guy at work was telling me his baby is cranky because she's teething, I told him in the old days you'd put some beer in the bottle to fix that problem.
Posted on 6/28/20 at 7:27 am to FightinTigersDammit
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Mom dropping you off at the ballpark for your Little League game with no cell phone, and a couple of bucks, and picking you up later.
This doesn’t happen anymore? Why? Do these 7-13 year olds all have phones now?
Posted on 6/28/20 at 7:30 am to jlovel7
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What were things you couldn’t believe we used to do?
Respect history
Posted on 6/28/20 at 7:31 am to jlovel7
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This doesn’t happen anymore? Why? Do these 7-13 year olds all have phones now?
In 1971, no one had cell phones.
Posted on 6/28/20 at 7:38 am to 007mag
Riding in the back of pick up trucks like it was completely normal, a fender bender could have been a potential life and death situation.
Posted on 6/28/20 at 8:22 am to jlovel7
When we were kids we spent a lot of time during the summer playing down by and IN the Mississippi River.
Posted on 6/28/20 at 8:26 am to jlovel7
used to water ski on the miss river, being pulled by a 56 chevy using about 200 feet of tow rope.
Posted on 6/28/20 at 8:27 am to jlovel7
No seatbelts
Smoking in restaurants
Taking off with your friends in a boat or in the woods for 8-10 hours at a time with your parents not knowing where the hell you are.
Long distance charges on land line within the same state
Smoking in restaurants
Taking off with your friends in a boat or in the woods for 8-10 hours at a time with your parents not knowing where the hell you are.
Long distance charges on land line within the same state
Posted on 6/28/20 at 8:31 am to OmniPundit
practice spin outs on gravel roads
Posted on 6/28/20 at 8:33 am to Trevaylin
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used to water ski on the miss river, being pulled by a 56 chevy using about 200 feet of tow rope.
Now that is awesome
Posted on 6/28/20 at 8:42 am to ByteMe
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. We had to turn the antenna to watch NBC in Lake Charles.
Rob "cucumber" Robin
Posted on 6/28/20 at 8:43 am to jlovel7
Going on family vacation in August, in a vehicle with no A/C, driving 8 hours with all the windows only slightly cracked open, both parents chain smoking, not stopping to eat or piss, (we had hot sandwiches and ziplock piss bags or an empty beer or soda bottle) and we don’t remember ever being the least bit uncomfortable.
This post was edited on 6/28/20 at 8:48 am
Posted on 6/28/20 at 8:46 am to jlovel7
On senior trip riding all the way to Panama City, Florida in the back of a pickup truck. I know, trashy but we had a ball. Good times.
Posted on 6/28/20 at 8:49 am to jlovel7
Think rationally
Posted on 6/28/20 at 8:51 am to jlovel7
Use a hoe to trim the grass from the driveway edge.
Posted on 6/28/20 at 8:57 am to jlovel7
Live in a house in La. with no A/c.
Posted on 6/28/20 at 9:32 am to jlovel7
Roaming the neighborhood to cut grass for money as young as 9 years old. I don’t remember the last time I’ve seen a young kid cut grass.
Sneaking in the house through a window I strategically cracked. Wouldn’t happen now with all of the camera/notification systems on houses now.
Playing king of the hill on whatever object we could find.
Knowing where everyone was based on the amount bicycles you’d see in the yard of someone’s house.
Setting up video game consoles on the porch or backyard and having neighborhood video game tournaments
Sneaking in the house through a window I strategically cracked. Wouldn’t happen now with all of the camera/notification systems on houses now.
Playing king of the hill on whatever object we could find.
Knowing where everyone was based on the amount bicycles you’d see in the yard of someone’s house.
Setting up video game consoles on the porch or backyard and having neighborhood video game tournaments
Posted on 6/28/20 at 9:43 am to TypoKnig
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Leave the house with no form of communication with the outside world.
I remember telling a young guy I worked with about going to the mall with friends and how we’d call them on the land line at their house and set a time and a meeting spot and then just see them there.
He said “ but...what if you couldn’t catch them at their house to tell them where to meet?”
And I said, “well, you just didn’t see them that day...and that was ok too.”
He legit seemed puzzled that you could manage a social life without cellphone or text.
Posted on 6/28/20 at 3:52 pm to jlovel7
Sell empty pop bottles back to the store for 5-cents each.
Use gasoline to take paint off of our faces and arms
Eat sugar and bread sandwiches
Play war games with bb-guns (must hit the body only)
Hand write 100 to 500 lines as punish-work in school
Use gasoline to take paint off of our faces and arms
Eat sugar and bread sandwiches
Play war games with bb-guns (must hit the body only)
Hand write 100 to 500 lines as punish-work in school
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