O/T... I remember when??

Bob 1 · 08-02-2007, 08:11 PM

The kids at the local Wal-Mart called me Sir or Maam because it was polite and not because they were told to do so in training.

I remember when the kids from the Misc section would romance us for a few posts before asking for reps to get out of the red.

I remember when all the really cool cars had the place where you put the gas hidden in all that chrome. The secrets will die with us if we don't pass them on to the younger generation. Do your part to make sure this does not happen.

I remember when it was important that I had a straw coyboy hat with a rattle snake on the front of it before I went line dancing at the local bar.

I remember when I gave up my leisure suit look, the urban cowboy look, and went for the Don Johnson Miami Vice look. The grunge look is the best in my mind which we invented way before it was the grunge look.

I remember when I could change the way someone looked at life, love, and the universe simply by handing them a doobie and saying let's listen to some Darkside of the moon while we have a few tokes.

I remember the night I bought the books, (The Joy of Sex) and Arnold's (Pumping Iron). It was the best night of sex I have ever had and the next day I joined a gym.

All I can say is I have lived in some really great times from the 50's to now.

Please add any other great memories.

farsscf · 08-02-2007, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Bob 1

The kids at the local Wal-Mart called me Sir or Maam because it was polite and not because they were told to do so in training.

Tell me about it, I almost choked some emo kid cashier the other day and gave him a little talk about his attitude before visiting with his manager.

newmexico123 · 08-02-2007, 08:24 PM

I really miss the cars - I got my DL in 1975 when a lot of muscle cars came up on the market due to the Arab Oil Embargo - I bought all kinds of great cars cheap!

Bob 1 · 08-02-2007, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by newmexico123

I really miss the cars - I got my DL in 1975 when a lot of muscle cars came up on the market due to the Arab Oil Embargo - I bought all kinds of great cars cheap!

You Bastard! You must have feasted on the Road Runners, Mustangs, Super Sports Chevell and Camaro, GTO's etc. You Bastard!

sytennison · 08-02-2007, 09:18 PM

I remember when me and my buddies would watch Star Trek on an 8" black and white Sony television.

I remember when Star Wars was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

Bubble gum used to be a penny a piece.

The woman at the convenience store used to allow me and my buddies to re-stock the cans of soda in the cooler during the hot, Texas summer and would pay us in candy without worrying about us stealing anything or getting in trouble with the manager.

I recall riding my Yamaha 80 mini-bike down a bumpy dirt road so fast that I knew that the slightest wrong move would end my life in an instant.

I used to keep a dime in my tool bag under the seat of my mini-bike so that I could always buy enough gas to get myself back home.

newmexico123 · 08-02-2007, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Bob 1

You Bastard! You must have feasted on the Road Runners, Mustangs, Super Sports Chevell and Camaro, GTO's etc. You Bastard!

I had a road runner 400 CI, 4 spd (the upside down pistol grip); a 1965 impala 396 SS Convertible; 1967 Chevelle SS, 1971 Chevelle SS, 1969 Z-28 Camaro; 1970 olds Cutlass 442 with a 455 4sp, - never had a stang or a goat though!

farsscf · 08-02-2007, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by newmexico123

I had a road runner 400 CI, 4 spd (the upside down pistol grip); a 1965 impala 396 SS Convertible; 1967 Chevelle SS, 1971 Chevelle SS, 1969 Z-28 Camaro; 1970 olds Cutlass 442 with a 455 4sp, - never had a stang or a goat though!

Wow, if only you had kept them, you know what they are worth now?

Tyrbolift · 08-03-2007, 02:43 AM

I remember riding bikes with friends to the drugstore for candy, and getting those little mint sticks with red tips made to look like cigarettes in cigarette boxes...with imitation names like "Sailem" or something.

Bubblegum with a little comic strip on the paper of each piece.

Comic books with Hot Stuff and Lil Dot, Casper and Richie Rich.

Little plastic rubber band powered toy cars that had snap on pieces that all break off and go flying when you run it into a wall. (and then snap it back together)

Playing kick the can with all the neighbor kids well past dark

or freeze tag

Playing a game where two kids get on the opposite side of a street and try to hit the kid on a bike riding back and forth with a frisbee.

Playing with "Jarts". What a deadly weapon that was. In fact, a lot of our toys are outlawed today.

LColeman · 08-03-2007, 04:20 AM

Toys being outlawed? Remember "Click clacks"? I almost broke my nose with those things.

Nobody tested the paint on our cribs-lead based and all

We drank out of a garden hose when we were thirsty! And never caught anything awful

My first car was a 1982 Buick Skyhawk-it was so tiny! But I bought it myself, and it was a Trans Am as far as I was concerned! (I drove it like it was a porshe)

I had a 1978 Firebird for awhile-it died

Instead of making playdates-we "called for" our friends-then went to the park-walked there without parents!

Son of Sam killed someone in my neighborhood, and I had to go to school wearing a hat over my long hair.

I know there's more, I just need to get some stuff done...

blabber · 08-03-2007, 04:36 AM

I can remember when could call a business and nobody would answer with "....and how may I provide you with excellent service today?"

*SLAP!!* *SLAP!!* aaaand *SLAP!!!*

WizardGlick · 08-03-2007, 07:28 AM

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I remember when I could change the way someone looked at life, love, and the universe simply by handing them a doobie and saying let's listen to some Darkside of the moon while we have a few tokes.

Sadly, my favorite quote so far.

GI Joes! Not those little ones, but the 11.5" ones. Both the hardhead one and the ones with Life-like hair.

Riding my bike, with the banana seat and sissy bar in the back, with my friends to the community pool during the summer.

Going around my entire development on Halloween ... even after it got dark.

Playing war, with toy guns, and not worrying whether it was going to eventually make one of us kill someone just because we played with them.

Duncan Yo-yo's

Building models, never realizing how the glue was affecting me.

My first "drink". Shhhhhh .... I wasn't 18 yet.

Being in plays during HS and after.

Too many to list, really.

Hibiscus09 · 08-03-2007, 07:35 AM

I think I remember that at one time I could remember things.

emf · 08-03-2007, 07:43 AM

i also miss the muscle cars.
i drive a lightning built block programmed, 10lb boost pully of course supercharged.
it costs me 12.00 a day to get to work 26 mile round trip.

Eileen · 08-03-2007, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by LColeman

Instead of making playdates-we "called for" our friends-then went to the park-walked there without parents!

My kids still do this. In fact, the house is empty because they have all gone off to call for friends. I'll be lucky if I see them by dark.

newmexico123 · 08-03-2007, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by farsscf

Wow, if only you had kept them, you know what they are worth now?

I'm crying!

Eileen · 08-03-2007, 08:05 AM

I remember when we used to make a trapeze from bailer twine and a pitchfork and hang it from the top of the hayshed. And swing from it!

I remember almost being caught with booze at pony camp, so I poured it into my horse's bucket. Ever ridden a drunk horse?

I remember being caned at school every day for not doing homework. Five minutes of pain verses an hour of homework? Seemed like a bargain to me.

I remember being kicked out of dancing class because I was crap. There was no nonsense about "inner dancer" back then.

I remember when a couple of biscuits or a piece of cake was a major treat. It wasn't a food group. Oh yes, and I remember when dieting advice was "Eat your meat and vegetables, and stop eating sugar, cake, bread and potato."

I remember when you got treated like royalty on a plane, not like cattle.

ChocoChick · 08-03-2007, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by chuckg1961

Sadly, my favorite quote so far.

Mine, too!

michaeljazz · 08-03-2007, 08:22 AM

I remember when we used to ride our bikes without helmets down the big hill. If we wiped out, all we got were scrapes and bruises... maybe some unlucky kid ended up on crutches for a couple weeks. Didn't seem like major head injuries existed back then, for some reason?

I remember when we got yelled at for running in and out of the house. Either you stayed out.. or you stayed in. And if you stayed in.. you got yelled at for sitting in front of that damn TV for so long.

I remember when hyperactive, non-attentive kids got sent to the principal's office for a paddling in school.. then got sent home with a note. The parents read that note when they got home, and whopped the kids again! There was no ritalin to "take the edge off"

I remember when you rang a girl's doorbell, and asked her mom or dad (who met you at the door) for permission to take their daughter out. Then you opened doors for her, and had her back when they told you to have her back. You didn't call the house at 11pm asking, "yo, where my girl at...." (a friend of mine recently had this type of late night phone call for his 14 year old daughter!!!!)

newmexico123 · 08-03-2007, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by emf

i also miss the muscle cars.
i drive a lightning built block programmed, 10lb boost pully of course supercharged.
it costs me 12.00 a day to get to work 26 mile round trip.

Gas is really hurting!

carbotoo · 08-03-2007, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Eileen

I remember when you got treated like royalty on a plane, not like cattle.

I remember when you were treated like royalty on a train.

AM radio!

StartinOver-68 · 08-03-2007, 09:34 AM

I remember portable radios didn't exist, we made crystal sets when we went camping in the woods.

I remember when I was real young people sat on their porches in the evening and talked to their neighbors. Kids played under street lights because there was little traffic. TV did not exist. Kids would stand outside a friends house and holler their names when they wanted them to come out. Nobody locked their doors.

Tomcat1066 · 08-03-2007, 09:46 AM

I remember playing football in the street, two-hand touch. If someone got knocked down, it was an accident and you dealt with a skinned knee or something and moved on.

I remember riding my bike for miles without a helmet. No brain trauma...from riding a bike anyways

I remember when my parents said that if I wanted a TV in my room, I had to buy it myself...so I did.

I remember when I played sports, and other kids played sports, and even though video games came out when I was a kid, we played them for a while and then went outside to do the serious playing!

I remember when people took responsibility for their own actions (more or less) and didn't want someone else to make decisions for them.

I'm sure I could come up with more, but I figure that's good for now

Tom

farsscf · 08-03-2007, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by michaeljazz

I remember when we used to ride our bikes without helmets down the big hill. If we wiped out, all we got were scrapes and bruises... maybe some unlucky kid ended up on crutches for a couple weeks. Didn't seem like major head injuries existed back then, for some reason?

I remember when we got yelled at for running in and out of the house. Either you stayed out.. or you stayed in. And if you stayed in.. you got yelled at for sitting in front of that damn TV for so long.

I remember when hyperactive, non-attentive kids got sent to the principal's office for a paddling in school.. then got sent home with a note. The parents read that note when they got home, and whopped the kids again! There was no ritalin to "take the edge off"

I remember when you rang a girl's doorbell, and asked her mom or dad (who met you at the door) for permission to take their daughter out. Then you opened doors for her, and had her back when they told you to have her back. You didn't call the house at 11pm asking, "yo, where my girl at...." (a friend of mine recently had this type of late night phone call for his 14 year old daughter!!!!)

Yeah, did kids get hurt as bad as they do now before the internet and video cameras?!? I remember doing stupid things and getting hurt but nothing like what I see on the internet.

michaeljazz · 08-03-2007, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by farsscf

Yeah, did kids get hurt as bad as they do now before the internet and video cameras?!? I remember doing stupid things and getting hurt but nothing like what I see on the internet.

Yeah my wife and I were just having this same conversation the other day. It does seem that kids get hurt more seriously nowadays. No way to explain it though!

I did some pretty crazy stuff also.. like jumping out of a moving truck when I was around 13. It had a rusty nail sticking up out of the tailgate.. which I caught squarely.. of course! It dug deep into my shin.. and when I looked into the gash.. I saw white! My Grandad brought me to the doc, who gave me a tetanus shot and about four butterfly stitches.. then I was off!!

These days, in that same situation.. a kid would probably have lost his leg!

michaeljazz · 08-03-2007, 10:00 AM

I've also seen head traumas on TV that baffle me. Caused from simple falls off bikes or skates.. while wearing helmets.. that didn't even phase me when I experienced some of the same types of falls... without helmets!

farsscf · 08-03-2007, 10:05 AM

Maybe kids today are just too soft?

surlycurmudgeon · 08-03-2007, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by farsscf

Maybe kids today are just too soft?

Ding ding ding!!! We have a winner!

farsscf · 08-03-2007, 10:16 AM

Of course some of us probably should have been diagnosed with head injuries back then.

pastorgbc · 08-03-2007, 10:21 AM

Getting up at 7 on a summer morning, getting to the baseball field by 8, and playing till noon with whatever number we had, adjusting rules as necessary.

At noon we would swim at the park pool till 2. At 2 we would go home and eat chipped ham sammiches and milk. We would head out and do something else until dinner.

At dinner, the WHOLE FAMILY would sit at the table and eat what mom had prepared, and there was nary a chicken nugget on the table. After dinner we would go back to the park and play basketball until it got too dark to see. We then would get a 16 oz iced tea and a bag of chips for a quarter. We'd go home, go to sleep, and start all over.

Ray

michaeljazz · 08-03-2007, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by pastorgbc

Getting up at 7 on a summer morning, getting to the baseball field by 8, and playing till noon with whatever number we had, adjusting rules as necessary.

At noon we would swim at the park pool till 2. At 2 we would go home and eat chipped ham sammiches and milk. We would head out and do something else until dinner.

At dinner, the WHOLE FAMILY would sit at the table and eat what mom had prepared, and there was nary a chicken nugget on the table. After dinner we would go back to the park and play basketball until it got too dark to see. We then would get a 16 oz iced tea and a bag of chips for a quarter. We'd go home, go to sleep, and start all over.

Ray

Now that's what I'm talkin' about!!