Remember the good old days? - not the good old days you're thinking of, though - I'm talking about the good old days of my childhood. I was born in 1982.

I remember I rode my bike to school and never once had to worry about perverts kidnapping me. Now you can't leave kids alone at the bus stop.

I Remember when playsets at the park were built real high, and it was there was a good chance you'd kill yourself if you slipped and fell. Our solution was simple: Don't slip and fall. Now they've got these bloated, plastic, totally un-fun playgrounds for kids because somebody got hurt and somebody else got sued.

Remember the toilets that weren't the ultra-efficient, water saving kind? You could flush a football down those things.

Remember when spankings were standard punishment? I got "the belt" once, and I didn't act up ever again.

Now we've got kids that run amok and parents trying to negotiate with them "now Billy, we don't run in the store, do we? If you sit still I'll buy you ice cream" - YOU ARE THE PARENT. YOU MAKE THE RULES.

Remember when the occasional fistfight at school was just part of growing up? I'll admit I got stomped a few times; it's part of life. Nowadays, they call the police, lawsuits run rampant.

And that doesn't even account for the times when the "loser" comes back with a gun.

Heck, sometimes the fighting is done with guns.

So what the hell happened, anyway? I'm 21 years old, but the world is so different that I feel like I'm 100.

XXL

 

Matt I feel your pain. I was born in 1980. I too have seen the world "fall apart"... The problem is that the hippies that are now having kids thought it was wrong that their parents used forceful discipline, so they try to talk the kids into it.. That and the yuppie families where both parents work from the time the kid is born to the time they move out... These people really irritate me. The kid grows up thinking that the babysitter or the day care mom(s) is(are) the parent(s), and parent(s) is(are) a live in friend... So the kid has no reason to respect the authority of the real parents. This is also part of the downfall of the country. I blame it mostly on feminism. The woman want to be men.

 

Just Imagine how you would feel if you were born in the '50's like me. I just heard that Capt. Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan) died. But you probobly don't even know who that is. Think a wholesome Pee Wee Herman.--Jack

 

I remember a lot of those days when i respond to threads relating back to the times you are speaking of.My younger years were quite exciting as well.But if I was to go back to those times I would miss the things i now enjoy.Fond memories and a time of innocence.It's all part of growing up.I too wish things could be as they were,but time is one thing that never stands still.Been there,done that.Time for new adventures.Just enjoy each day to it's fullest.

 

amen matt, amen. I know what youre saying, don't forget the mile-high METAL slide that burnt ALL the way down. I was born in 84, and I cant even find a playground for my nephews with slides taller than three feet tall. I jus't dont understand.

 

ah. the good old days. i remember when i was 16, i use to walk into a business, ask if they were hiring, and start the next day. when i was 14 i never looked either direction before i crossed the street. if you didnt hear a car coming, there were no cars. when i was 10 i ran around playgrounds and parks doing whetever i desired with no worry of strangers, except maybe an older kid who wanted my bike. all the fights i got into at school were diciplined by being sent home for the rest of the day.

now i sit here waiting for a temp agency to call me for work, $10.00 an hour if im lucky. i was making $15.00 and hour a few years ago. i cant wait til spring so i can get back to tree removal.

i too was born in 1982. i am 21 years old. i feel like im 50 . sometimes i wish i were 50 so i could have grown up with cool cars and trucks, when life was real.

 

yeah its crazy how true all that is, i turn 18 in march and even i have witnessed all those things change over the years. its sad that it had to come to this.

 

Um…. Matt…. You are acting old, but that is OK

Heck I have to teach the lovelies. Have you ever had a parent tell you that you should not tell their child that they are wrong, because it harmed their psyche? HUH, OK your kid is not wrong they are just stupid. I know what you mean. I am 6’2” and weight 280 and my mom is 5’1” 122lbs and can control me like a cow. I have RESPECT for things and people, but that is not the case and I was born in 1972.

I do know who Captain Kangaroo is and no Pee-Wee would never be a replacement for him.

 

I'm a decade older than you but know where you are coming from. I just can't believe some parents nowadays. My kids got a belt when they neede it and I'll do the same to my grandkids if neccesary. They will grow up with respect.

 

Born in 67. I remember during summer vacation, my sister and I would be out of the house first thing in the morning and weren't back home until supper time. We were out exploring, and our parents never had to worry.
Now I have to walk my daughters just to the neighbors house next door, when they want to play with their child.
Scary world.

 

Matt, i was born in 80 and i know exactly what u are talking about. I honestly wish i was born in the 30s, i know time was a little harder, but at least ppl had respect and crimes werent made by kids. They were working to much to do anything like that, and they actually had respect for their parents. Plus the cool cars where around then and maybe i couldve met bonnie and clyde . I hate how today stuff is, no spanking and if u do u may get in trouble .... well i tell ya what whenever i have kids, u can bet your sweet butt im gonna spank them when needed, and dare anyone to say a dam thing about it. And ill build my own slide 15 feet up in the air so they know how a side is suppose to burn, lol.

 

You kids..... Here's some things you probably never knew

Leaded gas, and paint
duck and cover drills (remember 'Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall).
Vinyl records
8-track tape
A cat was something that kept rodents out of the house, not a gov't mandated part on your car.
Cartoons that had no moral.
Cartoons where the character committed suicide ("well now I've seen everything" Bang!!)
Cartoons with actual violence -- ever notice some buggs/daffy cartoons seem to be missing scenes?
Sugar was a good thing ('Sugar fortified corn pops!!')
Soybeans were food for livestock.

 

Oh boy 8 track tapes I am sure glad they are gone....
CDs and dvds are much better
I remember all that stuff too but you have to admit there are some cool things about today!!!!
Internet
Great special effects in movies, go back and watch Clash of the Titans it looks cheesy now it was sure cool when it came out.
Cable TV
I miss some of the old stuff, but I sure like some of the new stuff...
Times have changed and so have people but we all still bleed red so there is still hope

 

I was born darn close to the middle of the last century.

Here are some for us older guys/dolls.


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Fw: Remember When


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>
>
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Close your eyes...And go back in time
> > >
> > > Before semi automatics and crack...
> > >
> > > Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
> > >
> > > Way back...I'm talking about
> > >
> > > Hide and seek at dusk.
> > >
> > > Red light, green light.
> > >
> > > The corner store.
> > >
> > > Hopscotch, butterscotch, doubledutch,
> > > jacks, kickball, dodgeball.
> > >
> > > Mother May I...
> > >
> > > Red Rover and Roly Poly.
> > >
> > > Hula Hoops.
> > >
> > > Running through the sprinkler.
> > >
> > > An ice cream cone on a warm summer night...
> > > Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or
> > > maybe butter pecan.
> > >
> > > Wait...
> > >
> > > Watching Saturday Morning cartoons...
> > >
> > > Short commercials.
> > >
> > > Fat Albert, Road Runner, The Three Stooges, and Bugs.
> > >
> > > Or back further...
> > >
> > >
> > > When around the corner seemed far away,
> > >
> > > And going downtown seemed like going somewhere.
> > >
> > > Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, Zorro.
> > >
> > > Climbing trees, building igloos out of snow banks
> > >
> > > Running till you were out of breath.
> > >
> > > Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.
> > >
> > > Jumping on the bed.
> > >
> > > Pillow fights.
> > >
> > > Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down...
> > >
> > > Being tired from playing...Remember that?
> > >
> > > The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
> > >
> > > War was a card game.
> > >
> > > Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
> > >
> > > Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike
> > > into a motorcycle.
> > >
> > > I'm not finished just yet...
> > >
> > > When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
> > >
> > > When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked,
> > > and gas pumped without asking, for free, every time...
> > > and, you didn't pay for air.
> > >
> > > When nearly everyone's mom was at home
> > > when the kids got there.
> > >
> > > When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up,
> > > if you even had one.
> > >
> > > It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb.
> > >
> > > When it was considered a great privilege to be taken
> > > out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.
> > >
> > > When girls neither dated nor kissed
> > > until late high school, if then.
> > >
> > > When they threatened to keep kids back a grade
> > > if they failed...and did!
> > >
> > > When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to
> >the
> > >fate that awaited
> > > a misbehaving student at home.
> > >
> > > Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't
> > > because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.
> > > Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!
> > >
> > > Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say,
> > >
> > > "Yeah, I remember that!"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Remember when...
> > >
> > > Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
> > >
> > > Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do over!"
> > >
> > > "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
> > >
> > > The worst thing you could catch
> > > from the opposite sex was cooties.
> > >
> > > It was unbelievable that dodgeball wasn't an Olympic event.
> > >
> > > Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
> > >
> > > Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
> > >
> > > Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
> > >
> > > Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare."
> > >
> > > If you can remember most or all of these,
> > > then you have LIVED!!!

 

man, im young and I remember MOST of that. those where the good old days. I remember when in school, when you where in trouble, you got your name on the board.