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Yesteryear
As a young child, seven to eight years of age, my parents would take me to the Chicago Northwestern train depot. I would then take a five hour train ride to the town my Grandfather lived in. He would pick me up at the depot. After my allotted time with Grandpa, I would do the trip in reverse.
I miss that type of innocence.
What do you miss?
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Then the same in reverse. I particularly remember the store that served as a bus depot in that town. In winter, it was always hot and steamy inside from a wood stove.
Posted by: Alana at February 25, 2018 11:56 AM (o3d0j)
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Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2018 11:58 AM (EyPfd)
Posted by: Miklos at February 25, 2018 11:58 AM (zCyNd)
YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!!!
Posted by: Insomniac at February 25, 2018 11:58 AM (NWiLs)
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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 12:00 PM
Going up to the flight deck of a 727 before takeoff and looking around, getting a little plastic set of wings from the captain. And then a full omelette breakfast with OJ and a muffin included in the price of the cattle car-class ticket.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 25, 2018 12:00 PM (y87Qq)
I could always hear Mom call for dinner no matter how far away, sort of like Fat Freddy's Cat could always hear the electric can opener.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at February 25, 2018 12:00 PM (qJtVm)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 25, 2018 12:01 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Traveling Man at February 25, 2018 12:01 PM (fIn37)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at February 25, 2018 12:01 PM (qJtVm)
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Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at February 25, 2018 12:01 PM (Vqe4u)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at February 25, 2018 12:02 PM (Vqe4u)
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Was it ever safe to do that?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at February 25, 2018 12:01 PM (qJtVm)
Hide the knives!
Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2018 12:03 PM (Pz4pT)
Posted by: Fritz at February 25, 2018 12:03 PM (bJ0w+)
Posted by: crisis du jour at February 25, 2018 12:03 PM (qVX10)
Make me a Pez disenser with Pez-shaped Sweet Tarts and now your talking.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at February 25, 2018 12:03 PM (qJtVm)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 25, 2018 12:04 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Sebastion Melmoth at February 25, 2018 12:04 PM (2DOZq)
I miss the certainty that every other American I crossed paths with wasn't a wanna-be commie.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 25, 2018 12:04 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at February 25, 2018 12:04 PM (Vqe4u)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 25, 2018 12:05 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at February 25, 2018 12:01 PM (qJtVm)
Why wouldn't it be? He was on TV advertising the car we'd be renting when we got to Miami!
Posted by: hogmartin at February 25, 2018 12:05 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at February 25, 2018 12:06 PM (qJtVm)
Valuable lessons can be learned, when boys (and men) have an awareness that they can get punched in the nose for saying/doing some things.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2018 12:06 PM (Pz4pT)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 25, 2018 12:06 PM (YYYb4)
We would go home for lunch, and then off we went until dinnertime. The mom network always seemed to have an eye on us. I always thought it gave them an excuse to call each other.
We owned that neighborhood of a few hundred houses.
Now, vanished.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 25, 2018 12:06 PM (UsCnO)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 25, 2018 12:06 PM (Ckg4U)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 25, 2018 12:07 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Hands at February 25, 2018 12:07 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 25, 2018 12:04 PM (NWiLs)
All this and go go dances with 'rib tickles'. And cars that don't yell at you when you go near the lane line. Fucking nags.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 25, 2018 12:07 PM (70cRb)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at February 25, 2018 12:07 PM (qJtVm)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 25, 2018 12:07 PM (70cRb)
Posted by: hogmartin at February 25, 2018 12:00 PM (y87Qq)
Airplane food is not so bad now that's its crappy bag of pretzels. Last time I had that experience (and the first time in many, many years) was Finnair about 12 years ago. Liked the elbow high black velvet gloves and vaguely S&M stewardess outfits too
When I was 8 I was tucked into a 727 by myself for a vacation with the Tennessee relatives.
Posted by: Keith at February 25, 2018 12:08 PM (USf3s)
The smell of diesel fuel. The frosted glass transoms on the roof. That train station, like so places back then was an entire experience. It seems that most of what made that period unique and memorable has been replaced by cheap replicas. Yes, I guess they might even be better, but they are as memorable as a cloudy day.
Posted by: Absinthe at February 25, 2018 12:09 PM (Pby3z)
Posted by: Kim Jong-Un at February 25, 2018 12:10 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Drew in MO at February 25, 2018 12:12 PM (cGlgB)
Though the neighborhood and walk between the dimly lit station and the stadium was a number of blocks, and sketchy to say the least at 10 at night, there were plenty of fans out and police at every corner, and I always felt totally safe with my Dad. I KNEW, just like believing in a higher power, that I was always absolutely safe when I was with him.
It was always a magical night, seeing my boyhood heroes play with the grace of professionals, plenty of ballpark food, being with my Dad, cheering myself hoarse, getting home half asleep after midnight, and bragging to my buddies the next day about having been to the game. Often I was exhausted at my own little league team's baseball practice the next day from the late night. I would try to apply what I had seen the pros do to my own childhood game.
Once we were seated in the front row behind first base. A player (Walt Bond-Houston Astros) hit a chopping foul ball toward the railing. My Dad leaned over the rail, snapped the ball up on the bounce with one hand, and handed it to me. Incredible.
A flood of memories. MisHum. Thanks for asking the question of us.
Posted by: RM at February 25, 2018 12:13 PM (U3LtS)
Posted by: PhilDirt at February 25, 2018 01:56 PM (RIsTZ)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2018 01:56 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 25, 2018 01:57 PM (+y/Ru)
Just about every weekend we would go over to my grandparents house and visit with them and any/all of my aunts and uncles and cousins who would come over.
My grandfather had his own business as an electrician and his garage was a treasure trove for exploring. Additionally, he had all sorts of wheeled vehicles -tractors, carts, minibike, etc. Two ponds on his property were there for swimming and rowing a boat in the summer, ice skating in the winter.
After hours of playing we would go in for my grandmother's chocolate chip cookies which were always hard.
He was a great man. A proud man. And I miss him even 20 years after his passing.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 25, 2018 01:59 PM (D3cJf)
Posted by: George Carlin at February 25, 2018 01:59 PM (/qEW2)
All of the people who were good to me in the beginning of my life departed too early.
All of the people who piss me off and work against me grow in numbers as I grow older.
I wish it were the reverse. I wish all of the people who piss me off died when I was young and people who support and love me are with me as I grow old and depart this world.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 25, 2018 01:59 PM (arhmY)
Posted by: Bosnian Sniper at February 25, 2018 02:00 PM (D3cJf)
Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at February 25, 2018 02:01 PM (rdl6o)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 25, 2018 02:01 PM (YU27p)
Posted by: Diogenes other brother Darrel at February 25, 2018 02:01 PM (ICWiF)
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We did the same.
I miss those days.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 25, 2018 02:01 PM (arhmY)
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at February 25, 2018 02:03 PM (jWe5r)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 25, 2018 02:03 PM (84F5k)
Posted by: Weasel at February 25, 2018 02:04 PM (Sfs6o)
Posted by: Ripley at February 25, 2018 02:05 PM (MxEKc)
It does not take a village to raise a child, but it is useful to kids and parents to have a village of (mostly) decent people keeping an eye on things.
Posted by: chuckR at February 25, 2018 02:05 PM (9qifp)
Posted by: Diogenes other brother Darrel at February 25, 2018 02:05 PM (ICWiF)
After a long week of hard work on the farm.
Posted by: 2soonold2latesmart at February 25, 2018 02:05 PM (I0FO9)
When I was six, my grandfather, born in 1878 and a veteran of the Philippine Insurrection, would send me around the corner to the drugstore to buy his tobacco and cigarette papers. I walked to school by myself, later rode a city bus to school, with transfer, at about age eight. All sorts of freedom.
Posted by: Miss Sippi at February 25, 2018 02:06 PM (DchWU)
Building tree housed wherever we could. Nail 2x4s for stairs and make plywood decks with NO HAND RAILS OR GUARDS. Imagine that would now be multi-thousand fines and some jail time.
BBgun wars later. Again get you shot, fined, jailed.
Playing all summer long from breakfast to being called home for dinner. We had neighborhood versus neighborhood softball, basketball, and football games we organized.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 25, 2018 02:06 PM (3BFzK)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 25, 2018 02:07 PM (yQpMk)
On the upside, I suppose this madhouse cannot survive in its current form. Madness burns out or dies out sooner or later. Something, somewhere has to break.
Posted by: doomed at February 25, 2018 02:07 PM (UW4Uc)
Posted by: Infidel at February 25, 2018 02:07 PM (a3OL0)
And a Military that was filled with warriors, with merit determined your position until O-6. Then it got political. Not like today.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 25, 2018 02:08 PM (hyuyC)
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Same here, but it was a 1971 Plymouth Fury station wagon with a rear facing back seat in the cargo area.
It didn't matter how far we were from my mom. She would throw her shoe at us with pinpoint accuracy when we were acting up.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 25, 2018 02:08 PM (arhmY)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 25, 2018 02:10 PM (3BFzK)
Great topic! Makes me quite nostalgic. Marbles ad mumbly peg, bailing out of swings at recess; playing away from home all day long. Tree climbing.
Building models, then taking them to the dump to see if they survived incoming combat rocks. Playing war.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 25, 2018 02:10 PM (hyuyC)
When I was six, my grandfather, born in 1878 and a veteran of the
Philippine Insurrection, would send me around the corner to the
drugstore to buy his tobacco and cigarette papers. I walked to school by
myself, later rode a city bus to school, with transfer, at about age
eight. All sorts of freedom.
Posted by: Miss Sippi at February 25, 2018 02:06 PM
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.My mother would send us to the store to buy her cigarettes, gave us a note and money and no one said a word.
We would leave the house in the Summer as soon as we got up and ate and not come home until it was getting dark. We had about a 5 mile radius mostly farm Country but some parts in Town where we hung out.
We would take our gas powered model airplanes on strings to the School playground to fly them completely unsupervised. Never chopped a single finger off either. My Brother had a Stuka and I had a P40.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 25, 2018 02:10 PM (+Dllb)
Posted by: Weasel at February 25, 2018 02:11 PM (Sfs6o)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at February 25, 2018 02:12 PM (TKmA0)
Some people insist that it's still possible to allow kids to do this; that it's only hyped fear of all manner of evils that don't really exist that stands in the way of letting kids today enjoy such liberty. Do I believe it? Would I let my kids do as I was allowed to do? No way. The world may not have deserved such trust for kids in 1975 but it sure as hell doesn't now. Not taking the chance.
Posted by: doomed at February 25, 2018 02:12 PM (UW4Uc)
I can confirm from a book signing of her's that I attended, she came with several large and armed men with unsmiling eyes but in nice suits.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 25, 2018 02:12 PM (yQpMk)
We've changed a lot since '62.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 25, 2018 02:12 PM (UsFoH)
in the back seat of my '60 Chevy'....
Posted by: redenzo at February 25, 2018 02:13 PM (14qvS)
Posted by: doomed at February 25, 2018 02:13 PM (UW4Uc)
Posted by: Timon at February 25, 2018 02:13 PM (NTM5E)
Posted by: Weasel at February 25, 2018 02:13 PM (Sfs6o)
At least the new neighbors moving in have a nice harley. I am a little worried about the blowup doll I saw someone unload from the trunk.
Posted by: Infidel at February 25, 2018 02:13 PM (a3OL0)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 25, 2018 02:13 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 25, 2018 02:13 PM (yQpMk)
The dweeb who wrote Jarhead has spouted off and he sounds like every other gun grabber.
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=77940
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 25, 2018 02:13 PM (YU27p)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 25, 2018 02:13 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Bill R. at February 25, 2018 02:13 PM (IuYIh)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at February 25, 2018 02:14 PM (TKmA0)
Posted by: redenzo at February 25, 2018 02:15 PM (14qvS)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 25, 2018 02:16 PM (+y/Ru)
us kids would ride till about dark, several miles away from home, in the hills and creeks.
...we'd create our own trails and adventure everyday.
Posted by: concrete girl at February 25, 2018 02:16 PM (SJBL7)
Tube testers at the hardware store.
Posted by: doomed at February 25, 2018 02:17 PM (UW4Uc)
Posted by: Weasel at February 25, 2018 02:13 PM (Sfs6o)
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I struck gold when a nearby apartment house had some guy dump about 20 Playboys in a dumpster. I was rooting around for 5 cent returnable bottles to buy ice cream bars. I would charge the boys in school to look at them for quarter. My second entrepreneurial venture. It was quite successful.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 25, 2018 02:18 PM (3BFzK)
Though I'm glad for 40+ years of Moore's Law at work.
Everything else about the 21st century sucks ass with extreme prejudice.
You still on my lawn ?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at February 25, 2018 02:18 PM (H0hPC)
Posted by: Diogenes other brother Darrel at February 25, 2018 02:01 PM (ICWiF)
I never got to do any of that stuff - the usual rites of passage, in general. Might partially explain my general lack of social skills.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 02:18 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: PhilDirt at February 25, 2018 01:56 PM (RIsTZ)
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Burning leaves! That was the smell of Fall.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Gamestress of Triskelion at February 25, 2018 02:18 PM (qJtVm)
Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. Either zooming them through the flexible orange tracks, or playing demolition derby by smashing them into each other.
Posted by: Hands at February 25, 2018 02:19 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: X-ray at February 25, 2018 02:19 PM (4fiCC)
Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at February 25, 2018 02:01 PM (rdl6o)
He'll make a fine Senator.
Posted by: Mitch McConell at February 25, 2018 02:19 PM (Qy9+s)
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 02:20 PM (42M22)
Posted by: Weasel at February 25, 2018 02:20 PM (Sfs6o)
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 02:20 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 25, 2018 02:21 PM (YU27p)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 25, 2018 02:21 PM (3BFzK)
Posted by: Ripley at February 25, 2018 02:21 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 25, 2018 02:22 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Weasel at February 25, 2018 02:22 PM (Sfs6o)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 25, 2018 02:21 PM (YU27p)
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Still have a set from my childhood. Again, nobody was ever hurt.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 25, 2018 02:22 PM (3BFzK)
Posted by: doomed at February 25, 2018 02:22 PM (UW4Uc)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 25, 2018 02:22 PM (8gDQu)
yep!
the neighbor mom would dump a packet in a bowl for us kids to share.
Posted by: concrete girl at February 25, 2018 02:22 PM (SJBL7)
Yes, I miss things I grew up with--not having to lock doors, honor systems at newspaper kiosks--lots of things.
Don't like society in it's current form, and eagerly await the pendulum swing back towards civility.
In spite of the current situation, this is yet the most exceptional country on the planet, populated by an extraordinary people.
Some of you may disagree with that assessment, but examples abound of it's verity.
Our family has been historically raised in accord with those values currently derided by the left and future generations will follow suit.
It's what we are.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 25, 2018 02:23 PM (S/hVx)
I miss those days. The days of honest evil.
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 02:23 PM (42M22)
Exploring the woods.
Sneaking out to have a couple clandestine shots of whiskey with friends from that hidden bottle.
Wrist Rockets.
Playing hoops and football in the street for countless hours no matter the weather with the other 5 guys my age who lived on our dead-end street.
Decent rock music.
Being young with a bright future.
Everything, really. That's what I miss.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 25, 2018 02:23 PM (GckyN)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 25, 2018 02:23 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2018 02:23 PM (aC6Sd)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at February 25, 2018 02:24 PM (TKmA0)
Could you skate backwards? Could you foxtrot?! Ours had a big pipe organ that played for afternoon skate and then in the evening it played top 40. Oh man that was fun!
Posted by: Cheriebebe at February 25, 2018 02:24 PM (DAdSz)
If we were throwing around a football in our own lawn, an unspoken rule was whatever you do, don't let the ball cross the property line into the old man's lawn. And heaven help you if missed a catch and the ball did bounce on to his lawn.
Posted by: Hands at February 25, 2018 02:24 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: Harold at February 25, 2018 02:24 PM (lPDqu)
All of the people who were good to me in the beginning of my life departed too early.
All of the people who piss me off and work against me grow in numbers as I grow older.
I wish it were the reverse. I wish all of the people who piss me off died when I was young and people who support and love me are with me as I grow old and depart this world.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 25, 2018 01:59 PM (arhmY)
That would be nice. I'd go back and warn my sobbing, confused and broken 10-year-old self that it wasn't going to get any better. But I this is supposed to be what we miss, not what we could do over, I guess.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 02:25 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Gamestress of Triskelion at February 25, 2018 02:25 PM (qJtVm)
Posted by: Infidel at February 25, 2018 02:07 PM (a3OL0)
Those are great memories.
I miss the fact that I could give a store keeper a quarter, purchase a Milkyway candy bar and a 10 oz bottle of coke for .20 and get a nickle back.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 25, 2018 02:25 PM (3/sUh)
Posted by: xnycpeasant at February 25, 2018 02:25 PM (BsGS1)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2018 02:26 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2018 02:26 PM (aC6Sd)
Could you skate backwards? Could you foxtrot?! Ours had a big pipe organ that played for afternoon skate and then in the evening it played top 40. Oh man that was fun!
Posted by: Cheriebebe at February 25, 2018 02:24 PM (DAdSz)
I never got the hang of the fancy stuff but I was fast as hell.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 02:26 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Eskimo at February 25, 2018 02:26 PM (Xy3pu)
Posted by: Hands at February 25, 2018 02:26 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 25, 2018 02:25 PM (3/sUh)
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Oh God you sound like my Mom, except for the addendum "...but you never HAD a quarter!"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Gamestress of Triskelion at February 25, 2018 02:26 PM (qJtVm)
I'm nostalgic about playing arcade games, but I feel it would be dishonest to say I "miss" them, since if I really missed them I could just download flash versions of them.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 25, 2018 02:26 PM (/qEW2)
Today the impulse is to trust no one, to like no one, right from the start.
Posted by: doomed at February 25, 2018 02:26 PM (UW4Uc)
Posted by: jix at February 25, 2018 02:27 PM (Xx3z8)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 25, 2018 02:27 PM (3BFzK)
Kids playing football in the street.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2018 02:26 PM (YqDXo)
You have to be quicker behind the wheel if you want to stop missing them.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 02:27 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at February 25, 2018 02:27 PM (TKmA0)
Chemistry sets that let you do real chemistry. It's what got me interested in the subject.
Chemistry sets now feature "experiments" such as dissolving sodium chloride in water. See? Salt dissolves!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2018 02:27 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: temple at February 25, 2018 02:28 PM (wtu9M)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 25, 2018 02:27 PM (3BFzK)
GodDAMN you're old!
*runs*
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 02:28 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: redenzo at February 25, 2018 02:28 PM (14qvS)
Posted by: Robeartoe at February 25, 2018 02:28 PM (/ZCA9)
Most of all, I miss the sense of mystery everything possessed then.
Posted by: Surfperch at February 25, 2018 02:28 PM (Qy9+s)
*runs*
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 02:28 PM (NWiLs)
Only 29
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 25, 2018 02:29 PM (3BFzK)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 25, 2018 02:29 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 25, 2018 02:25 PM (3/sUh)
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A Nickelback what? CD? You really are 29 aren't you?
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 25, 2018 02:29 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: lily at February 25, 2018 02:29 PM (5Rl8X)
Only 29
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 25, 2018 02:29 PM (3BFzK)
Heh.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 02:29 PM (NWiLs)
Sitting on Pappaw's lap and reading the Sunday comics.
Watching Mammaw cook.
Getting up on the white rock roof with Grandpa in El Paso to fix the swamp cooler.
Grilling out with Grandpa. Always steaks.
Playing Scrabble with Grandma.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 02:29 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 02:30 PM (42M22)
Walking out my door on a spring day, through the woods to the train tracks. Then following those tracks and the smell, that incredible smell of spring and creosote. Walking about five miles back to a park, finding a tree that had fallen across the creek and making my way to the other side. Watching the fish in the creek until I got bored, then walking home.
When asked where I had been, "Just went for a walk."
I did that a lot. Walking ten miles a day was easy.
Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 25, 2018 02:30 PM (2FqvZ)
Posted by: fly gal at February 25, 2018 02:30 PM (wmQWo)
Posted by: lily at February 25, 2018 02:30 PM (5Rl8X)
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 02:30 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at February 25, 2018 02:30 PM (TKmA0)
Also, bike riding around Lawrence and Mercer counties (W. PA). Used to be fit too. I vaguely remember that. I did all this on an old 10-speed without a helmet and wearing shorts & t-shirt. The safety NAZI's hadn't destroyed fun yet.
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 25, 2018 02:30 PM (gVwwo)
Posted by: Alana at February 25, 2018 02:31 PM (o3d0j)
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 02:30 PM (42M22)
You grew up in Cali though, correct?
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 02:31 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Cheriebebe at February 25, 2018 02:31 PM (DAdSz)
Posted by: Hands at February 25, 2018 02:31 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: doomed at February 25, 2018 02:31 PM (UW4Uc)
I miss a time when men weren't allowed in the Ladies Bathrooms, and when girls weren't told there was something evil about them if they were uncomfortable undressing in the locker room around guys.
Posted by: lily at February 25, 2018 02:32 PM (5Rl8X)
What do I miss? Riding my bike everywhere. Pick up football and baseball.
Of course, my life is mostly dedicated now to forgetting my whole embarrassing past.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2018 02:32 PM (Q326l)
Posted by: Harold at February 25, 2018 02:32 PM (lPDqu)
Chemistry sets that let you do real chemistry. It's what got me interested in the subject.
Chemistry sets now feature "experiments" such as dissolving sodium chloride in water. See? Salt dissolves!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2018 02:27 PM (YqDXo)
Did you have one of those crystal growing kits? Mine had a sea chest in it. Never could quite grow the crystals on the box.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 02:32 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Cheriebebe at February 25, 2018 02:31 PM (DAdSz)
That was me, though I never did cause any pileups. I'd have epic blisters.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 02:33 PM (NWiLs)
My upbringing was the polar opposite -- a world toxic antii-capitalism and anti-Americanism, insanity, race-based hatred, and interpersonal dysfunction to an extreme degree.
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 02:30 PM
That makes you a survivor, and better for it.
Posted by: Hands at February 25, 2018 02:33 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 25, 2018 02:33 PM (YU27p)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2018 02:33 PM (VWsDy)
Posted by: lily at February 25, 2018 02:33 PM (5Rl8X)
Per capita, crime rates were HIGHER when we were growing up.
Its just that you only heard about local crimes... not every crime across the US... and were not bombarded 24/7 by the MSM making you scared.
Its really funny now... Mom's 89.... I'm 58... when I was 11 I used to ride my bike to the river to go swimming, and it was no big deal, just be home for dinner...
Now? at 58? She's calling me on my phone if I'm gone more than a couple of hours... to make sure I'm OK...
People are both more scared... and also able to put an electronic leash on people...
Posted by: Don Q. at February 25, 2018 02:34 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: lily at February 25, 2018 02:34 PM (5Rl8X)
Exploring was key. We would discover new 'short cuts' to and from elementary school. Or explore behind school, which seemed a vast, untamed wilderness.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 02:34 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Jmel at February 25, 2018 02:35 PM (UUK4i)
What do I miss? Riding my bike everywhere. Pick up football and baseball.
Of course, my life is mostly dedicated now to forgetting my whole embarrassing past.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2018 02:32 PM (Q326l)
My parents would only let me go five miles from home before I had to turn back.
Posted by: Surfperch at February 25, 2018 02:35 PM (Qy9+s)
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 25, 2018 02:35 PM (gVwwo)
Posted by: Eskimo at February 25, 2018 02:35 PM (Xy3pu)
Posted by: Harold at February 25, 2018 02:32 PM (lPDqu)
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Hah, I remember driving through LA and seeing signs everywhere that said, "Gas War" and asking dad what that meant.
I want to say gasoline was about 28 cents a gallon at the time.
Posted by: Blake at February 25, 2018 02:36 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Hands
***************
My grandfather and I lying on the LR floor looking at the Bendix watching the Republican Convention nominate Eisenhower.
Posted by: Harold at February 25, 2018 02:36 PM (lPDqu)
My upbringing was the polar opposite -- a world toxic antii-capitalism and anti-Americanism, insanity, race-based hatred, and interpersonal dysfunction to an extreme degree.
Posted by: zombie
So, you were brought up on a university campus?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2018 02:36 PM (Q326l)
Zombie,
We're not making it up, which makes it all the sadder for us because it's pretty much gone now. My kids will never know, and trying to explain it to them is like my Dad once trying to explain Tom Mix and Lash LaRue to me. I just couldn't relate. Neither can they.
Maybe, in a way, you're luckier...you don't have the sense of loss to deal with and you grew up accustomed to all that's wrong now.
Posted by: doomed at February 25, 2018 02:36 PM (UW4Uc)
Posted by: Jmel at February 25, 2018 02:35 PM (UUK4i)
How'd you like a stick in your eye ?
Posted by: Mr Plissken at February 25, 2018 02:36 PM (VWsDy)
Posted by: Alana
My sister would send me on drug runs without telling me what I was doing, before I really even knew what drugs were. Her excuse was, "If you get caught, you're too young to go to jail!"
She'd hand me a burrito-sized package wrapped in aluminum foil (which years later she'd admit was full of cocaine) and tell me to take it to "her friend"'s house at a certain address. I'd go there, and it would be an abandoned "squat" house with a drug operation in the back room, putting coke in little baggies for individual sale. I'd walk in and hand the diseased hippie guarding the back room the package and say it was from my sister. I was eight years old at the time. This went on for years.
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 02:36 PM (42M22)
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 02:30 PM (42M22)
You grew up in Cali though, correct?
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands
Yep. SF Bay Area.
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 02:37 PM (42M22)
Posted by: Timon at February 25, 2018 02:38 PM (NTM5E)
Posted by: BluesFish at February 25, 2018 02:38 PM (Dj7U8)
Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2018 02:38 PM (0vY1N)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 25, 2018 02:39 PM (YU27p)
Posted by: Bullhead at February 25, 2018 02:39 PM (jdfqd)
Posted by: Hands at February 25, 2018 02:39 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 02:36 PM (42M22)
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Good Lord!
I did some drug dealing back in the day, but I would never have thought to involve my sibling.
Posted by: Blake at February 25, 2018 02:39 PM (WEBkv)
I miss open, unironic statements of faith in public.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2018 02:39 PM (39g3+)
"I miss all the freewheeling of the 60's-80's. In the 70's the cops would
ask if you been drinking, you could say "a little bit" and they would
tell you to go straight home. Now if you fart, they want to know where
you had dinner.
Posted by: REDACTED"
One time me on my buddies were pulled over by a cop going to a festival in some rural area, early 80's with tapped keg in the back seat. We were hopeless drunk and lost. Cop told us how to get to the concert but not after giving us a stern lecture about driving with a tapped keg and advising us to untap it until we arrived at the concert.
Posted by: Ripley at February 25, 2018 02:39 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at February 25, 2018 02:40 PM (TKmA0)
Geez. A drug mule.
The most nefarious thing my family got up to was shooting hickory nuts out of trees with a BB Gun from my grandparents front porch. Everyone took a turn with the gun.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 02:40 PM (ycWCI)
We gave our kids a childhood as close to ours as we could. I think they turned out superbly. But then I am quite biased about that.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 25, 2018 02:40 PM (S/hVx)
Posted by: Sharkman at February 25, 2018 02:40 PM (GckyN)
Posted by: Harold at February 25, 2018 02:32 PM (lPDqu)
I remember in Dallas there was a self serve station out side of the Buckner Drive in. Mid-60's, first I had ever seen.I think it was 25 cents a gallon. Thought to myself " never catch on"' A real Nostradamus, I am
Posted by: Mr Plissken at February 25, 2018 02:41 PM (VWsDy)
Fooled them though since I was working with isotopes that I got in the mail. Bet that house is still radioactive.
Posted by: Last at February 25, 2018 02:41 PM (8HiDF)
Posted by: doomed
Yeah, but I feel like the person from the village where the Plague first appeared, and then from there infected the rest of the nation and killed everyone. Sure, I'm "used to it," but there's a huge sense of guilt and responsibility for being the source-vector for the disease that destroyed your own civilization.
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 02:41 PM (42M22)
Posted by: Willow at February 25, 2018 02:41 PM (wA1aM)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at February 25, 2018 02:40 PM (TKmA0)
*fistbump*
Changing the oil and spark plugs on various company vehicles with my Dad and our Red Buick (with white interior.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 02:42 PM (ycWCI)
That ended in the late 60s or 70s.
Posted by: girldog at February 25, 2018 02:42 PM (g5YYQ)
Smart. Even if you're caught you won't face any real time.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 25, 2018 02:42 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 02:30 PM (42M22)
Sounds like where I live now.
Posted by: Surfperch at February 25, 2018 02:42 PM (Qy9+s)
Posted by: Lisl at February 25, 2018 02:43 PM (OAB5z)
The Brady Bunch wardrobe..no wait..
You could live your life without the never ending assault by the left on every aspect of everyone's lives
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 25, 2018 02:43 PM (SiINZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 02:43 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: IC at February 25, 2018 02:43 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2018 02:43 PM (aC6Sd)
Posted by: Willow at February 25, 2018 02:44 PM (wA1aM)
And this may explain quite a bit...
Posted by: Skookumchuk at February 25, 2018 02:44 PM (TKmA0)
Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2018 02:44 PM (aC6Sd)
Every so often (now) I take out the old 22 (Winchester 22 W.R.F, its heavy, surprised I carried it very far at 10 years old) single shot and clean it, bringing back memories of shooting wood chucks. Or just going fishing with my dad and hating catching brook trout with all the little bones. He would cook the trout over a wood camp fire.
Having a pack of cigarettes hidden in the basement, and maybe smoking one or two before they got all moldy.
Posted by: Colin at February 25, 2018 02:44 PM (O2JlO)
Holy smokes, zombie, why should you feel guilt when you didn't have a clue? Your sister and her skeevy pals should bear that burden.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2018 02:44 PM (Q326l)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 25, 2018 02:44 PM (YU27p)
Posted by: Hands at February 25, 2018 02:45 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 25, 2018 02:45 PM (gVwwo)
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 02:36 PM (42M22)
Holy shit.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 02:45 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Willow at February 25, 2018 02:45 PM (wA1aM)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Wish they'd make those small vent windows again, they're the best when you're smoking or someone has bad gas
Posted by: Bullhead at February 25, 2018 02:46 PM (jdfqd)
Posted by: Skip
Sadly, I'm still here. The Union of SF-Area Socialist Republics, formerly known as Northern California.
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 02:46 PM (42M22)
Posted by: zombie
Yeah, but you got to be President.
Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2018 02:47 PM (0vY1N)
Playing Last Stand with a mix of Transformers and Gi Joes. One robot is fighting all the others on the bedspread and takes down each one until shot by an unseen coward. Epic death scene.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 02:47 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: lily at February 25, 2018 02:29 PM (5Rl8X)
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I do too. But perhaps that was a mistake. Maybe if people had been more closely monitoring government earlier we wouldn't have come to this state. Like GHWB signing Schumer's bill for "diversity lotteries" and no one noticed. But I do miss that feeling - that you could just ignore government and trust it to chug along reliably in the background.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 25, 2018 02:47 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Willow at February 25, 2018 02:47 PM (wA1aM)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 25, 2018 02:47 PM (YU27p)
And yeah, I saw Jackie DeShannon open for the Beatles in Milwaukee in 1964.
Didn't hear the Beatles, but I saw them.
I so wish we could return to that age of innocence.
Posted by: Pete Seria at February 25, 2018 02:47 PM (2WfB0)
Posted by: Rex B at February 25, 2018 02:47 PM (yNMZF)
Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2018 02:48 PM (aC6Sd)
You're now part of the solution and an especially valuable one BECAUSE of where you come from.
How'd you get post 150 and 200? Wow.
Posted by: doomed at February 25, 2018 02:48 PM (UW4Uc)
Posted by: doomed at February 25, 2018 02:48 PM (UW4Uc)
Wait, Zombie is Bob from NSA?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 02:49 PM (ycWCI)
and life wasn't Norman Rockwell for everybody - I had a seemingly normal middle class childhood, except for being raised in a dysfunctional alcoholic home that only looked normal on the outside
Posted by: Hands at February 25, 2018 02:49 PM (EzdLW)
The Lauren Gibbs is black and of course the left is tearing her to pieces for taking a picture with Ivanka and Sanders. Because they are taking away their rights and support hate. Gibbs is displaying a ton of class in the face of all of the left's insanity. I miss people not being able to take a picture without the Red Guard making their life miserable
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 25, 2018 02:49 PM (SiINZ)
"we had no seatbelts, helmets. . .we ate good sugary cereals. . . we were either airborne, or chugging pure sugar"
Posted by: booknlass at February 25, 2018 02:50 PM (xGMkv)
i was visiting my aunt in modesto and she told me to take my younger cousin up the street to get bean dip and fritos.
i couldn't believe she wanted us to go by ourselves and kept asking, "are you sure?" she just laughed and said it'd be all right.
i felt so proud and took great care of my cousin and that can of bean dip was my reward.
thnx MH
Posted by: concrete girl at February 25, 2018 02:50 PM (SJBL7)
Posted by: girldog at February 25, 2018 02:51 PM (g5YYQ)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 25, 2018 02:51 PM (rnAwa)
Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2018 02:52 PM (aC6Sd)
Posted by: Hands at February 25, 2018 02:52 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 25, 2018 02:52 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: concrete girl at February 25, 2018 02:50 PM (SJBL7)
I have one thing missing from my Rockwell upbringing- I never had a family member send me to the store. My family always lived way out in the suburbs or next to farm land- no stores close by.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 02:52 PM (ycWCI)
...you are among friends now
Posted by: concrete girl at February 25, 2018 02:52 PM (SJBL7)
Holy smokes, zombie, why should you feel guilt when you didn't have a clue? Your sister and her skeevy pals should bear that burden.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I'm talking about the guilt one feels having experienced all the political stuff LONG before it spread to the rest of the country, but being unable to do anything about it (because of being too young and too naive). For example, my public-school education was 100% anti-white and anti-American, back when most of the country didn't even know that Gramscian communists had taken over the education system (or were about to complete the "long march"). I realize that nowadays "social justice" education (as it's now called) is commonplace, but I was probably among the first kids to experience it -- a sort of test-run for the rest of the country. But back in my day it was much more blatant -- hence my first comment above, that what I missed about the "old days" was that back then at least the anti-American agenda was not yet disguised and ewas easily identifiable.
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 02:52 PM (42M22)
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 02:41 PM
San Francisco. Gays, counter-culture, drugs, and leftism. It should be an example of what cities should not become, instead it's become the how-to model.
Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 25, 2018 02:53 PM (2FqvZ)
Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2018 02:53 PM (aC6Sd)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 25, 2018 02:53 PM (YU27p)
Posted by: Colin at February 25, 2018 02:53 PM (O2JlO)
Posted by: Hands at February 25, 2018 02:52 PM (EzdLW)
Sparklers because Dad would not let us handle the projectile fireworks (think Mom was the culprit there)- but he would let us light them with the sparklers.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 02:54 PM (ycWCI)
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Parkland Dad Accuses Chris Wallace of Focus on Gun Control Instead of School Security for 'More Ratings'
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Ripped PISS Wallace a new one
Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 25, 2018 02:54 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Traveling Man at February 25, 2018 02:54 PM (fIn37)
By myself.
There's no way I would have allowed my kids to do that when they were that age.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 25, 2018 02:55 PM (rJUlF)
So us kids would build forts and go iceskating, and camp and build campfires and all that shit in that stretch. All without adults. It was also the kid's highway/secret passage to other parts of the hood
Posted by: Bigby's Groping Hands at February 25, 2018 02:55 PM (z2W2E)
We come here not to praise Hillarius, but to bury her.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 25, 2018 02:53 PM (YU27p)
Even Antony would choke on calling Hillary and Bill 'honorable men'.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 02:55 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Weasel at February 25, 2018 02:55 PM (Sfs6o)
Posted by: West at February 25, 2018 02:56 PM (7Ml7x)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2018 02:56 PM (VWsDy)
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 02:56 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Traveling Man at February 25, 2018 02:54 PM (fIn37)
Something I'm sure most millennials still haven't done.
Posted by: Surfperch at February 25, 2018 02:56 PM (Qy9+s)
Posted by: Weasel at February 25, 2018 02:55 PM (Sfs6o)
Oh, we have a good reason.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 02:56 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: zombie
That breaks my heart. Being a kid in the 60s and 70s was the best.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 25, 2018 02:56 PM (GckyN)
My Mom would sometimes ask me to get her cigarettes. I'd say, "Sure". But then she'd ask me where I was going to get them, and when I told her either one store that was two miles away, or the other, which was three miles away, she'd change her mind.
For me, an hour walk was a picnic. Two hours was even better.
She couldn't see things through my eyes.
Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 25, 2018 02:57 PM (2FqvZ)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at February 25, 2018 02:57 PM (hqQ+Q)
Posted by: navybrat at February 25, 2018 02:57 PM (w7KSn)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 25, 2018 02:57 PM (rnAwa)
Posted by: West at February 25, 2018 02:56 PM (7Ml7x)
Because Kites got stuck up there.
Kites. I never see a kite these days.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 02:57 PM (ycWCI)
The humorless scolds of the left have ruined all that.
Posted by: Billy Hollis at February 25, 2018 02:57 PM (sNJx5)
Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2018 02:53 PM (aC6Sd)
Whippersnapper.
Posted by: West at February 25, 2018 02:58 PM (7Ml7x)
Conneaut Lake Park, my grandparents worked there in the summer. My dad grew up in Meadville and went to Allegheny College. We spent lots of time there.
A long drive from Cleveland taking Rt 322 through Amish country to CLP...at least it seemed that way when I was under 10 y/o.
We'd stop just our side of the state line, at a Custard Stand that was to die for.
I thought the Wild Mouse was scarier than the Blue Streak.
Posted by: browndog at February 25, 2018 02:59 PM (bGMOs)
Posted by: Bullhead at February 25, 2018 02:59 PM (jdfqd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 02:59 PM (ycWCI)
Leaving my bike, unlocked, on their front lawn, with all the other kids' (unlocked) bikes.
Leaving my street clothes, towel, wallet, etc in an unlocked locker while I swam all day.
And having diving boards, over a twelve-foot-deep section of the pool.
...
A whole day, or weekend, fishing with my Dad.
...
Mom being home to take care of us (until we were all old enough, then she took a part-time job).
...
The happiness and optimism in the pop music of the 1980s. I'm still 29, though. Time is weird like that.
...
Porn that you had to work for.
Posted by: Weasel
Thinking that the SI Swimsuit Issue was the height of naughtiness. Ah, the innocence of youth...
Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2018 02:59 PM (JGBbg)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at February 25, 2018 02:57 PM (hqQ+Q)
Mary, what was your childhood like?
Posted by: Surfperch at February 25, 2018 02:59 PM (Qy9+s)
3 on the tree
4 on the floor
Posted by: navybrat at February 25, 2018 02:57 PM (w7KSn)
Still got 'em! I have a 6 speed manual, my wife a 5 speed, and both my daughters have manuals.
It'll come in handy come the apocalypse, and it makes our vehicles theft-proof.
Posted by: West at February 25, 2018 02:59 PM (7Ml7x)
jobs without having to compete with hundreds of other people, including
adults with families to feed.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 02:56 PM (NWiLs)
My son has come up against that. He finally managed to find one a year ago, and he's still working there. Now, he's trying to save money for his own car, but at what he's being paid, and with the prices of even old beater cars these days, it could take years.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 25, 2018 02:59 PM (rJUlF)
It's BS, obviously. But of course they will breathlessly 'report' on their own fudged poll to get a weeks worth of propaganda from it.
Got to keep the sheep ignorant. Can't have them realizing that their side is losing and dampen enthusiasm.
Posted by: JC at February 25, 2018 02:59 PM (mJXUS)
Posted by: Hands at February 25, 2018 02:59 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: Monk at February 25, 2018 03:00 PM (g4lFK)
Posted by: West at February 25, 2018 02:56 PM (7Ml7x)
Because Kites got stuck up there.
Kites. I never see a kite these days.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 02:57 PM (ycWCI)
Man, I used to love flying kites. A marvelously contemplative, mind-calming solitary activity.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 03:00 PM (NWiLs)
time I paid for a tank of gas with my own money after getting my
driver's license.
Posted by: Traveling Man at February 25, 2018 02:54 PM
.
.
.My Uncle briefly owned a Gas Station in Youngstown OH back in the early 60s. He was having a Gas war with another Station on 224. My dad made us kids go out there one weekend and we had to paint the damn curbs around the pumps green while they were pumping tons of gas at 20 cents a gallon.
We did get a Milky Way bar out of it but we had to split it three ways.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 25, 2018 03:01 PM (+Dllb)
Posted by: Bullhead at February 25, 2018 02:59 PM (jdfqd)
Or you might not have made it out alive and unharmed.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 03:02 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Colin at February 25, 2018 03:02 PM (O2JlO)
Posted by: DNC polling research at February 25, 2018 03:02 PM (yNMZF)
Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2018 02:59 PM (JGBbg)
Never heard of the hoary old Tome The National Geographic? The only tits I saw for most of my adolescence were the low hanging dugs of African native women. But, you know, you take what you can get.
Posted by: West at February 25, 2018 03:02 PM (7Ml7x)
Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2018 03:02 PM (aC6Sd)
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 03:00 PM (NWiLs)
We lost one once. We played out the entire string on the reel. It was up so high you could not even see it anymore. Then the reel ended and I tried to grab the string, but missed.
Wonder where it went?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 03:02 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 25, 2018 02:59 PM (rJUlF)
Yeah, it really sucks.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 03:02 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at February 25, 2018 03:03 PM (Vtmbh)
Building models, then taking them to the dump to see if they survived incoming combat rocks.
The PX had airplane models in plastic baggies for a dime. Good times.
Didn't see a yellow schoolbus until 8th grade; schoolbusses where I grew up were olive drab, like everything else.
Posted by: Anachronda at February 25, 2018 03:03 PM (2//jc)
"Peter J. Vaughn"
I still use it as an alias sometimes.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 25, 2018 03:03 PM (GckyN)
Posted by: Sharkman at February 25, 2018 03:04 PM (GckyN)
3 on the tree
4 on the floor
Posted by: navybrat at February 25, 2018 02:57 PM (w7KSn)
Fifth under the sear
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2018 03:04 PM (VWsDy)
Posted by: Monk at February 25, 2018 03:05 PM (g4lFK)
The point being - this is why Millennials are so screwed up. Instead of accepting that risks were a part of childhood and growing up, to be systematically shielded from all risk when growing up messes you up psychologically.
It also explains why they love socialism - they are used to have their decisions made for them, and to have mommy and daddy take care of them, well past adolescence. They just view the government as the replacement stand-in for their parents in adult life.
The fact that the government doesn't have their best interests at heart (the government has the government's best interests at heart), and that the government might take actions that are very much not in their interests, doesn't occur to them.
Posted by: The ARC of History at February 25, 2018 03:05 PM (dlwIY)
Never heard of the hoary old Tome The National Geographic?
The public library in Roosevelt, UT had a National Geographic collection that went clear way back into the early 1900s. Ads for cars that you could buy for $595.
Posted by: Anachronda at February 25, 2018 03:05 PM (2//jc)
If we're going to fix all this, we need you badly; you know the enemy's tactics better than most of the enemy's foot soldiers do.
Posted by: doomed at February 25, 2018 03:06 PM (UW4Uc)
jobs without having to compete with hundreds of other people, including
adults with families to feed.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 02:56 PM
The girls I knew did it for free
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2018 03:06 PM (VWsDy)
My
son has come up against that. He finally managed to find one a year
ago, and he's still working there. Now, he's trying to save money for
his own car, but at what he's being paid, and with the prices of even
old beater cars these days, it could take years.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 25, 2018 02:59 PM (rJUlF)
I hope he is making $15 an hour!
Posted by: Colin at February 25, 2018 03:08 PM (O2JlO)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2018 03:06 PM (VWsDy)
To be fair, these accommodating lasses did not look at it as a job.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 03:08 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Cheriebebe at February 25, 2018 03:08 PM (DAdSz)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2018 03:08 PM (7iLWw)
Interesting idea, but it doesn't entirely explain the Boomer generation (no I'm not trying to start a generational fight) who took over as professors and congressmen and pushed socialism through with extreme vigor.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 03:08 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 03:10 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2018 03:11 PM (VWsDy)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2018 03:12 PM (Q326l)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 25, 2018 03:12 PM (/qEW2)
Glorious.
Posted by: Noam Sayen at February 25, 2018 03:13 PM (611Lm)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2018 03:06 PM (VWsDy)
To be fair, these accommodating lasses did not look at it as a job.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 03:08 PM (ycWCI)
I always thought they should be paying me but no, I'm a nice chap
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2018 03:13 PM (VWsDy)
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 03:13 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Colin at February 25, 2018 03:13 PM (O2JlO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 03:08 PM (ycWCI)
I wouldn't know.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 03:14 PM (NWiLs)
My first car cost $600. Used, I might add indignantly.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2018 03:12 PM (Q326l)
$400. An '84 black Olds Cutlass Ciera with red interior and bench seats. Bad paint. A big dent in the fender. In '92.
Cash for clunkers got rid of so many old cars.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 03:14 PM (ycWCI)
out of, move them around and make them say whatever you wanted them to
say. No picture ID. I lived on that a while.
Posted by: REDACTED
Wisconsin had the same paper licenses which we manipulated to serve our purpose. I didn't get a license with a photo until I got out of the Marines!
Posted by: Bullhead at February 25, 2018 03:14 PM (jdfqd)
Used to ride my bike on a 4 lane highway, a few miles north to fish a place called Rocky Ford. Had a man made waterfall and out of use electric generating station, or mill, or something.
A mile or so further was the outlet for Tuttle Creek. Fished that too. A few times all night. Knew half the men there due to hanging out in a bait shop, helping the old guy who gave me my first two years of fishing lessons and listening to fish stories. Mom had no worries since I knew so many of em.
Same age, if I wasn't at the bait shop or fishing, why, little league baseball, neighborhood pick up games or hunting for snakes, of course.
Posted by: teej at February 25, 2018 03:14 PM (9razJ)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2018 03:11 PM (VWsDy)
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My plastic IL DL did have a picture on it, but I discovered I could change my birth year from 1962 to 1960 with a pin, whiteout and a black fine point marker.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at February 25, 2018 03:15 PM (/zp4x)
Posted by: Bigby's Groping Hands at February 25, 2018 03:15 PM (z2W2E)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 03:14 PM (ycWCI)
And resultantly jacked up the price of used cars by shrinking the supply and leaving only newer used cars available, pricing most high school kids and the working class people out of the market.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 03:16 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2018 03:16 PM (7iLWw)
Posted by: Insomniac
Progressives have always been here.
It wasn't boomers who opened the barn door.
Posted by: Harold at February 25, 2018 03:16 PM (lPDqu)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2018 03:12 PM (Q326l)
My first car was gift from older sister who just went off to med school. It was like a Renault 4cv, totally fucked up pos
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2018 03:16 PM (VWsDy)
If we're going to fix all this, we need you badly; you know the enemy's tactics better than most of the enemy's foot soldiers do.
Posted by: doomed
A good example of what I'm talking about:
My elementary school had a "free lunch program" that was for black kids only. I mean, it was literally called something like "The Afro-American Nutrition Program" -- there was no attempt to hide what it was about. The program worked like this: If you were black, you got free food. If you were not black, you go no free food.
This applied to all the kids in the school, the entire student body. All blacks got free lunch. No non-black kids were allowed to get free lunch. Period.
When I was in fourth grade, a cafeteria worker was fired for giving a free lunch to a white kid, in violation of the program's rules. We all knew the kid too -- he was a pathetic hungry barefoot hippie kid who told everyone he was going to see if he could deceive the cafeteria workers by wearing a hoodie and hunching over and just lining up at the end of the black kids' free-lunch line, and maybe they'd give him some free food without realizing he wasn't really black. He succeeded, and afterward all the kids in the playground were giggling about it, and I guess the monitors heard the rumors and it got back to the school administration. The next day, the cafeteria worker was gone (she was an old white lady who had worked there for years) never to be seen again, and we all had to go to a mandatory school assembly where we were warned not to try anything like that again. The principal said she knew who the offending student was, and out of the kindness of her heart she wasn't going to punish him, but this was the last time any forgiveness would be shown -- if any other white or Asian kid tries to steal the black kids' food, they will be punished. Understood?
This is what it was like in my area. The institutionalized anti-white agenda was VERY overt. It was only later that the toxic leftists in charge learned that it was wiser to hide their agenda with euphemisms and convoluted "rules" which produced the same results without being overtly race-based. So, now, there are in fact still programs that are essentially still blacks-only, but this is achieved by applying various non-racial criteria which when all added up will only result in an all-black demographic in the program.
I knew what was coming for America LONG AGO, before anyone here (or anywhere else) had a clue. But I could do nothing to stop it.
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 03:17 PM (42M22)
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 03:16 PM (NWiLs)
Which makes it hard for them to get a job. Why it was almost like it was a huge plan to get people more accepting of socialism and living on the government dole!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 03:17 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2018 03:16 PM (7iLWw)
*fistbump*
Did your clutch plate stick in cold weather?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 03:18 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Nlynch at February 25, 2018 03:18 PM (7fWk8)
Posted by: Insomniac
Progressives have always been here.
It wasn't boomers who opened the barn door.
Posted by: Harold at February 25, 2018 03:16 PM (lPDqu)
That isn't what I said. And I'm not looking to restart the generation wars. I don't think it can be denied, however, that's when the one of the biggest pushes took place.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 03:18 PM (NWiLs)
. It was like a Renault 4cv, totally fucked up pos
Posted by: REDACTED
Well, what do you expect from a car built by French communists?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2018 03:18 PM (Q326l)
Posted by: West
The articles on the Amazon were prized!
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 25, 2018 03:18 PM (UsFoH)
Not bad in the pennies-per-day sense.
Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2018 03:19 PM (JGBbg)
Posted by: X-ray at February 25, 2018 03:19 PM (4fiCC)
===
Imma walk my kid through this book
www.cavemanchemistry.com/
Posted by: Bigby's Groping Hands at February 25, 2018 03:20 PM (z2W2E)
I mostly miss dungeons and dragons and building model airplanes.
Posted by: Gator70 at February 25, 2018 03:20 PM (9f/mv)
Where you wouldn't be called a murderer or a monster because of the political party or group you belong to.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 25, 2018 03:20 PM (xJa6I)
all the parents were inside, having drinks, enjoying themselves while we were out in the dark for hours.
my boyfriend and i, laying side by side in an empty bathtub, holding hands trying not to laugh while the rest of the kids screamed because they couldn't find us, not 20 feet away.
Posted by: concrete girl at February 25, 2018 03:21 PM (SJBL7)
Where you wouldn't be called a murderer or a monster because of the political party or group you belong to.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 25, 2018 03:20 PM (xJa6I)
Remember conservative democrats? My grandparents on my mom's side were. But my grandma loved Rush Limbaugh (back in the 80s.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 03:21 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: BluesFish at February 25, 2018 03:22 PM (Dj7U8)
1963 Ford Falcon. Seventy. Five. Dollars.
Posted by: teej at February 25, 2018 03:22 PM (9razJ)
Posted by: REDACTED
Well, what do you expect from a car built by French communists?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2018 03:18 PM (Q326l)
I had to rebuild it. The motor was so small, I think about 25 hp, my cousin and I lifted out of the back, no hoist
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2018 03:22 PM (VWsDy)
Chemistry sets that let you do real chemistry. It's what got me interested in the subject.
"Slowly drip the water into the trimethylaluminum..."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2018 03:22 PM (Q326l)
Oh, a lot of Boomers correctly viewed increasing the size and scope of government as a way of giving themselves more power.
But that is only a minority of the Boomer generation - which is why "progressives" are impatiently waiting for that generation to die, so they can seize complete power.
Posted by: The ARC of History at February 25, 2018 03:22 PM (dlwIY)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2018 03:22 PM (7iLWw)
Posted by: Colin at February
That milk wasn't homogenized, i.e.
the cream wasn't mixed with the milk. You would have to shake the bottle before you used it to mix the cream with the milk.
The cream was what popped out of the top.
As a kid, I helped my dad on his milk route.
When it was below freezing, we'd wrap the bottles in newspaper to prevent this from happening.
Posted by: JT at February 25, 2018 03:22 PM (DMET3)
Posted by: Colin at February 25, 2018 03:23 PM (O2JlO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2018 03:22 PM (7iLWw)
Mine was too. Crap, I meant choke plate. I'd have to get a screw driver to hold the choke plate open whenever the temp got into the teens.
My headliner was collapsing too.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2018 03:24 PM (ycWCI)
Interesting idea, but it doesn't entirely explain the Boomer generation (no I'm not trying to start a generational fight) who took over as professors and congressmen and pushed socialism through with extreme vigor.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 03:08 PM (NWiLs)
Hard Times create good men, etc., etc.
Posted by: West at February 25, 2018 03:25 PM (7Ml7x)
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 03:17 PM (42M22)
My RC high school was the incubator for this brave new world. They had free lunches for black or Hispanic kids (no matter how much their parents made) which turned to free tuition which turned to begging alumni for money which turned to going broke and closing. They had a black and Hispanic student organization but no white one because that would be racist. We had to do a who are prejudice against assignment and let's blame your parents for that. Let's go protest nukes rally and all other assorted lefty BS. This was in the 80s.
P.S. I laughed in their faces when Reagan won.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 25, 2018 03:25 PM (SiINZ)
I totalled the Falcon. Nose broken, ear mostly off, glass shards that would keep coming out of my forehead for years.
But I was really pissed that I had just put $3 of gas in it.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 25, 2018 03:26 PM (fuK7c)
I miss being able to say I miss a nostalgic thing without being called a racist or wanting black people in chains.
Not that I really care, but politics has invaded everything.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 25, 2018 03:27 PM (r+sAi)
I'm guessing Berkeley - I grew up elsewhere in the Bay Area, and managed the Rockwellesque upbringing.
Fun fact: in the 1940's and '50's, Berkeley had the lowest teacher salaries in the state of California, because the reputation of the schools was so wonderful that teachers would accept a modest salary, just to be able to teach in Berkeley public schools.
Then, in the '60's, the New Left and the cultural revolutionaries arrived, and everything changed.
Posted by: The ARC of History at February 25, 2018 03:27 PM (dlwIY)
old beater cars these days, it could take years.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 25, 2018 02:59 PM (rJUlF)
I have a 2003 Toyota Avalon with about 130k miles. Excellent mechanical and very good cosmetic.
I can't find anyone who will make a serious offer!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2018 03:28 PM (wYseH)
No one lost their lives due to this dangerous equipment, but my older sister did break a collarbone when she fell off the top of the slide!
Posted by: George V at February 25, 2018 03:28 PM (LUHWu)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2018 03:29 PM (VWsDy)
Posted by: Liv Ullmann's smegma at February 25, 2018 03:29 PM (B6UVL)
Wilson
FDR
LBJ
I'm a boomer and I was eight and a half when LBJ took office.
Posted by: teej at February 25, 2018 03:30 PM (9razJ)
The "big kids" at my school were assholes. I don't miss that.
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 03:30 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Infidel at February 25, 2018 03:31 PM (a3OL0)
Posted by: Colin at February 25, 2018 03:31 PM (O2JlO)
No one lost their lives due to this dangerous equipment, but my older sister did break a collarbone when she fell off the top of the slide!
Posted by: George V at February 25, 2018 03:28 PM (LUHWu)
Sounds just like my childhood. Built a log cabin off in the woods. We had rock fights. Literally (and not misusing the word), we would just chuck rocks at each other.
Posted by: West at February 25, 2018 03:31 PM (7Ml7x)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2018 03:29 PM
Do you remember where you were, what you were doing when you found out your number?
Mine was damn near 300.
Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 25, 2018 03:31 PM (2FqvZ)
Posted by: booknlass at February 25, 2018 03:31 PM (xGMkv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2018 03:33 PM (7iLWw)
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 03:17 PM (42M22)
My RC high school was the incubator for this brave new world. They had free lunches for black or Hispanic kids (no matter how much their parents made) which turned to free tuition which turned to begging alumni for money which turned to going broke and closing. They had a black and Hispanic student organization but no white one because that would be racist. We had to do a who are prejudice against assignment and let's blame your parents for that. Let's go protest nukes rally and all other assorted lefty BS. This was in the 80s.
P.S. I laughed in their faces when Reagan won.
Posted by: TheQuietMan
Interesting -- your high school was similar to my schooling, but the difference was yours was a private school, whereas I went through the public school system. We too had a very blunt anti-American and anti-white curriculum, long long before it became trendy. The teachers in high school just straight-up told us, "We're not going to teach you white history; we're going to teach you black history." And then "black history" turned out to be nothing but endless diatribes about how evil white people are and always have been.
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 03:33 PM (42M22)
Used to be my favorite hotel in Paris
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2018 03:33 PM (VWsDy)
Posted by: Traveling Man at February 25, 2018 03:34 PM (fIn37)
Posted by: Colin at February 25, 2018 03:35 PM (O2JlO)
Right now we are chasing a term that a realtor in TN used, "unrestricted land use". Imagine the concept of owning property that you can use as you choose!
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 25, 2018 03:35 PM (Lqy/e)
Found out when I was in the USAF kids from NY and Boston played the same game with different names.
Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2018 03:35 PM (aC6Sd)
All the way into the middle 1980's.
I absolutely loved visiting them every year.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at February 25, 2018 03:36 PM (2kiKp)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 25, 2018 03:36 PM (UsFoH)
Our grade school had those!
A sleet storm, so the slide got glazed with ice, plus nylon-shelled snow pants or snowmobile suits. I think you could break the sound barrier on the way down.
It's a small miracle the entire school didn't have broken ankles and/or tailbones all winter long.
And the merry-go-round, with a gang of sixth-graders pushing it. See how long you can hang on before centrifugal force launched you into the sandbox (read: gravel pit) around it...
Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2018 03:36 PM (JGBbg)
Also ... good lord, zombie. Glad you made it through that.
Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at February 25, 2018 03:36 PM (dj96+)
With mom and dad knowing you'd show up, like an animal, for feeding at dinner time.
Posted by: Very Unstable Semi-Genius, AKA rhomboid at February 25, 2018 03:36 PM (Pby3z)
Posted by: MaddyMass at February 25, 2018 03:37 PM (J1xuv)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2018 03:38 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 25, 2018 02:33 PM (YU27p)
Now that was a favorite movie of mine growing up.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at February 25, 2018 03:38 PM (2kiKp)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2018 03:29 PM
Do you remember where you were, what you were doing when you found out your number?
Mine was damn near 300.
Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 25, 2018 03:31 PM (2FqvZ)
I know exactly where I was. I was at a friend of mine house. His name was Larry and his parents had bought a house from a newscaster in Dallas. They bought it from Ted Cassidy, AKA Lurch. That will make you remember where you were
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2018 03:38 PM (VWsDy)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 25, 2018 03:38 PM (72Mp/)
The anti-war movement was like catnip to the KGB. They weren't behind all of it but they exploited the hell out of it, planting the seeds of the cultural Marxism of today. The 'don't trust anyone over 30' crowd was empowered by protesting against the war. And worse, they 'won'.
They took over the Democratic party, took over the schools, took over the media; all flushed with victory and knowing that they'd been proven 'right' by our failure in Vietnam and by Nixon's disgrace.
Honestly, it's so systematic and through the way they mocked and belittled those who believed in fighting Communism, it almost feels like there's a larger hand guiding it all.
I know it's tempting to look at history and see patterns where there may not be any. Or maybe hindsight lets you see the patterns after all.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 25, 2018 03:39 PM (xJa6I)
Activists Tell Illegals Not to Travel in Florida as Arrests Mount...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 25, 2018 03:39 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: X-ray at February 25, 2018 03:39 PM (4fiCC)
Walking with a friend, in 8th grade, through the neighborhood to a nearby quarry, carrying a Springfield rifle, the dispatch guys in the shack at the quarry entrance barely looking up as you entered, saying "stay in the back". Then shooting in the back corner of the quarry.
Not some idyllic Midwestern or western rural small town. A major SoCal city, in the totally developed inner suburbs. All of this.
Posted by: Very Unstable Semi-Genius, AKA rhomboid at February 25, 2018 03:39 PM (Pby3z)
Posted by: Insomniac
Part of the plan dude.
Posted by: Barry at February 25, 2018 03:40 PM (lPDqu)
Posted by: KWDreaming at February 25, 2018 03:40 PM (mBmTz)
Posted by: dartist at February 25, 2018 03:40 PM (nisXv)
Activists Tell Illegals Not to Travel in Florida as Arrests Mount...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 25, 2018 03:39 PM (+y/Ru)
Works for me. And tell those damn Yankees to stay up north while you're at it!
Posted by: Insomniac - We Are All Hands at February 25, 2018 03:40 PM (NWiLs)
pushing it. See how long you can hang on before centrifugal force
launched you into the sandbox (read: gravel pit) around it...
Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2018 03:36 PM (JGBbg)
When in maybe first or second grade, the older boys on the playground would come over and push us around just being bullies. Scaring the hell out of us little ones. I went to a all grades country school, still that way now.
Posted by: Colin at February 25, 2018 03:41 PM (O2JlO)
I gave a divorce party for a couple of my friends. Seemed like a good idea at a time. We were too poor to get a black frosting cake with a broken heart on top.
Lawn darts contest --- Bad Idea! I learned something that day.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 25, 2018 03:43 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: W. Brimley at February 25, 2018 03:43 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 25, 2018 03:44 PM (ks6bw)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 25, 2018 03:44 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: girldog at February 25, 2018 03:44 PM (g5YYQ)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 25, 2018 03:45 PM (ks6bw)
irongrampa@113
I agree; still a lot of good people in America.
They are the only reason that there is still hope for the Founders great experiment.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at February 25, 2018 03:45 PM (H0hPC)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 25, 2018 03:46 PM (+y/Ru)
old beater cars these days, it could take years.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 25, 2018 02:59 PM (rJUlF)
I have a 2003 Toyota Avalon with about 130k miles. Excellent mechanical and very good cosmetic.
I can't find anyone who will make a serious offer!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2018 03:28 PM (wYseH)
Heck, hang onto it then!
Or try Facebook sales or Craigslist if you must.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 25, 2018 03:46 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: girldog at February 25, 2018 03:44 PM (g5YYQ)
Yep, one of the last remaining few it seems. Multigenerational too.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 25, 2018 03:47 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 25, 2018 03:47 PM (hyuyC)
Found out when I was in the USAF kids from NY and Boston played the same game with different names.
Posted by: Skip
Hey, even I (in my crazy-world) played that game -- except we called it "Sharks and Fish."
Our rules were slightly different. It was set up exactly like a football field -- there was a playing area and two end zones at each end. One single kid at first was chosen to be the first "Shark." He stood in the middle of the field. Then at first ALL the rest of the kids were the "Fish," and we all started in one end zone (or as we called it, "Safety"). The goal at first was to run across to the other Safety without being touched by the Shark. If you reached the Safety, you were safe. But if the Shark touched you. then you became a Shark as well. So the first run, only a few kids would get touched. Thus, on the second run, there would now be, say, three or four Sharks, and fewer Fish. And then again you'd try to run across to the other Safety without getting touched. Each back-and-forth got more difficult, as each time more kids had been touched and turned to Sharks. Eventually, there would be a breaking point and there would be 50 Sharks on the field and just 5 Fish left trying to cross. What made it interesting is that those five Fish were always the fastest kids, and could be hard to catch, even for 50 Sharks. The goal was to be the last surviving Fish; then you would be declared the Winner. But your "prize" was that NEXT time, you had to be the first Shark.
Basically, it was just training for football. Each "run" was essentially the same as a kickoff in a football game -- tacklers trying to get the guy who's trying to run the length of the field.
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 03:48 PM (42M22)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 25, 2018 03:44 PM (ks6bw)
Yes but...that was rapidly being ground away. It wasn't as in-your-face everywhere like it is now, but it was there.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 25, 2018 03:48 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Colin at February 25, 2018 03:48 PM (O2JlO)
HATERZ!!!!!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 25, 2018 03:46 PM (+y/Ru)
I don't get why they don't ban it for doping.
Posted by: X-ray at February 25, 2018 03:49 PM (4fiCC)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
How to treat a sucking chest wound?
Posted by: Sharkman at February 25, 2018 03:49 PM (GckyN)
Posted by: Infidel at February 25, 2018 03:49 PM (a3OL0)
I can't find anyone who will make a serious offer!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Keep it and keep it in good shape.
Estimate what the payment would be if you purchased a new one then put that payment in an account. Then use that account for upkeep on the Avalon. At the end of the year you will be the better for it.
Do the same for insurance costs.
Posted by: Barry at February 25, 2018 03:49 PM (lPDqu)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 25, 2018 03:46 PM (xJa6I)
Knitting needles...eyes...some assembly required.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2018 03:49 PM (wYseH)
Warped me forever.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 25, 2018 03:49 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Hate Has No Home Here and the NRA and Gun Owners Can Go to Hell at February 25, 2018 03:49 PM (ks6bw)
I miss the lack of feeling that Western civilization is doomed and that liberals are joyously destroying it.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear
What is to replace it?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2018 03:50 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Barry at February 25, 2018 03:49 PM (lPDqu)
It was my mom's car....I have enough cars!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2018 03:50 PM (wYseH)
HATERZ!!!!!"
When the Democrats return to power, all the people who booed will be tracked down and arrested.
It's the one thing that terrifies me about the future - the D's are going to regain control sooner or later, and they will be bent on revenging themselves on the half of the country that they hate utterly.
Obama's subversion of the IRS and FBI is just a love tap, compared to what is coming.
Posted by: The ARC of History at February 25, 2018 03:51 PM (dlwIY)
When calamitously stupid policies are pushed under the guise of unintelligent moral narcissism, one wonders why some revenue gaps aren't closed by taxing previously exempt properties. Why can't we get some idiot authoritarians to push for that?
"Look we treasure the role of religious freedom in a pluralistic society, but ...... when churches start to subvert public safety, the rule of law, and moral clarity, well, it might be time to re-look at some previous arrangements".
Posted by: Very Unstable Semi-Genius, AKA rhomboid at February 25, 2018 03:51 PM (Pby3z)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2018 03:38 PM (wYseH)
Great, except for the cold and rain. We're actually staying in an Airbnb in Tuckaho. Found a bar called The Quarry, right around the corner from where we're staying.
Posted by: Traveling Man at February 25, 2018 03:51 PM (fIn37)
Posted by: Lurker at February 25, 2018 03:51 PM (5vV+V)
Posted by: Colin at February 25, 2018 03:52 PM (O2JlO)
Do not put the divorcing spouses on opposite teams.
No sucking chess wounds. Close calls, yes. But we did learn who had the faster reflexes. When I learned me some UCMJ, I remembered that time --penetration, however slight, was narrowly averted.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 25, 2018 03:52 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2018 03:33 PM (42M22)
Freshman year we had two history classes. One on African history and the other was China. The only good thing was the priest who taught African history was black and very cool and showed the movie Zulu. They used to do part of the Mass in Spanish even though a small part of the school spoke it. I was told by a Spanish teacher I had to learn the language because in 10 years most of the country would be speaking it. A "religion" teacher said that after the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor we didn't have to declare war but tell them "Okay you've got our attention. What do you want?" I mentioned the other attacks by the Japs immediately after Pearl he mumbled. Being a Catholic school the only movie remotely related to religion was Jesus Christ Superstar to which most of us laughed the entire way through and the teachers yelled at us to shut up. It was the today's insanity 30 plus years ago
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 25, 2018 03:52 PM (SiINZ)
Yeah, I'm old enough that I have Moonrise Kingdom memories, but I'm nostalgic for things from my adult life when it was my children who were the children, not me.
There's a beach called Humarock that had a party every July 3. I found it by accident, I was living out there and didn't know it was a tradition until I stumbled across it.
People would save up pallets and broken chairs and cords of wood all year long for the 3rd of July bonfire. The bonfires were massive and lined a stretch of beach 3 or so miles long. Fireworks went off everywhere, but they were like the bonfires. Not municipal, just guys who'd been planning their personal fireworks show since last year.
It was utter chaos and it was glorious. Cops were there, but not to stop anything just to keep order.
I stumbled onto this gem around Y2K and was amazed that it was a thing that could still happen in America. It finally got banned a few years ago.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 25, 2018 03:52 PM (fuK7c)
Did ya see my @314?
Was living down Allen Rd from Tuttle Creek Blvd on Northview Dr.
No apt complex then. Farm field all the day to Casement.
Posted by: teej at February 25, 2018 03:52 PM (9razJ)
Posted by: Traveling Man at February 25, 2018 03:51 PM (fIn37)
If you feel like a short drive, head over to "The Bridgeview Tavern" in Tarrytown.
Excellent tap beer, great pub food, and a nice atmosphere.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2018 03:52 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 25, 2018 03:53 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: ShainS at February 25, 2018 03:53 PM (BiLU+)
Posted by: Barry at February 25, 2018 03:54 PM (lPDqu)
Now prohibited, too dangerous. Like everything else.
Posted by: Ripley at February 25, 2018 03:55 PM (MxEKc)
The TV series "The Rat Patrol." We young boys thought those modified jeeps with the mounted machine guns were the coolest thing ever ...
Posted by: ShainS at February 25, 2018 03:53 PM
Oh hell yeah
Posted by: Hands at February 25, 2018 03:55 PM (EzdLW)
Geo-cacher?
They really screwed up Rocky Ford with all the concreting they did.
Posted by: teej at February 25, 2018 03:55 PM (9razJ)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2018 03:55 PM (wYseH)
And teachers not wanting to talk about what happened to Harlem.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Hate Has No Home Here and the NRA and Gun Owners Can Go to Hell at February 25, 2018 03:56 PM (ks6bw)
We lived in Ohio on 3.5 acres until 2009. The place next door, also on acreage, was bought by a couple with young kids. The kids would run around the front yard chasing each other and yelling with a passel of Shelties right behind barking their fool heads off.
One day the father apologized for the ruckus. Nonsense, I replied, that's exactly what kids that age should be doing.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2018 03:56 PM (YEQTW)
Posted by: Traveling Man at February 25, 2018 03:56 PM (fIn37)
I was in the army in the 60's and things were getting kind of rough at
various army installations. My room mate who was black was stabbed to
death right outside our door. (we had 2 man rooms) and we were warned
not to walk alone at night. This was the time of all the riots in the
cities.
Early 70's in Germany was bad too. Soon after I left my new guy roommate was killed. Never walked alone at night in the kaserne unless you were on guard duty.
Posted by: dartist at February 25, 2018 03:56 PM (nisXv)
How much are you looking for?
At least, around here, I can't imagine anything more than $5K and in all honesty, probably quite a bit less.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 25, 2018 03:56 PM (E3rQ4)
Posted by: girldog at February 25, 2018 03:44 PM (g5YYQ)
Yep, one of the last remaining few it seems. Multigenerational too.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 25, 2018 03:47 PM (NWiLs)
So you're an endangered species. I've been here for almost 60 years and have seen very few in their native habitat.
Posted by: girldog at February 25, 2018 03:56 PM (g5YYQ)
Posted by: Harold at February 25, 2018 03:57 PM (lPDqu)
I miss being able to say I miss a nostalgic thing without being called a racist or wanting black people in chains.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 25, 2018 03:27 PM (r+sAi)
^^This.
Posted by: rickl at February 25, 2018 03:58 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: girldog at February 25, 2018 03:56 PM (g5YYQ)
I am indeed. Where'd you come from originally? Though after 60 years you might as well be a native.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 25, 2018 03:58 PM (NWiLs)
At least, around here, I can't imagine anything more than $5K and in all honesty, probably quite a bit less.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 25, 2018 03:56 PM (E3rQ4)
$3k would be great.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2018 03:59 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at February 25, 2018 03:59 PM (prxs+)
Bicycles, sailboats, and mobs of kids and dogs wandering around. (Later, on the boats, girls with cutoffs and bikini tops. That was good.)
Posted by: George LeS at February 25, 2018 03:59 PM (+TcCF)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at February 25, 2018 04:00 PM (QMwOT)
Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at February 25, 2018 03:59 PM (prxs+)
Of course the poisoned candy/razor blade apples never actually happened. It was an urban legend turned news story turned mass hysteria.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 25, 2018 04:00 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 25, 2018 04:00 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Hans O'Lo at February 25, 2018 04:00 PM (kZUVU)
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There really were guys like that but they were Brits, not yanks.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 25, 2018 04:00 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear
What is to replace it?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2018 03:50 PM (IqV8l)
China will probably wind up the Big Dog if current trends continue.
People worldwide are going to be very sad when Uncle Sugar is replaced by Emperor All-for-China-None-for-You-Asshole.
History provides an unpleasant preview of things to come.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 25, 2018 04:00 PM (E3rQ4)
Posted by: girldog at February 25, 2018 04:01 PM (g5YYQ)
Posted by: ShainS at February 25, 2018 03:53 PM
THIS! And all those WWII movies.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at February 25, 2018 04:01 PM (QMwOT)
Posted by: Infidel at February 25, 2018 04:01 PM (a3OL0)
Posted by: girldog at February 25, 2018 04:01 PM (g5YYQ)
Honorary native, then. Glad you're here!
Posted by: Insomniac at February 25, 2018 04:01 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Gamestress of Triskelion at February 25, 2018 04:02 PM (qJtVm)
Posted by: naturalfake at February 25, 2018 04:02 PM (E3rQ4)
Posted by: naturalfake at February 25, 2018 04:02 PM (E3rQ4)
One would think....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2018 04:02 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 25, 2018 03:46 PM (xJa6I)
Knitting needles...eyes...some assembly required.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2018 03:49 PM (wYseH)
LOL
All right. I'm just saying a camera on your phone and a quick post and you'd at least see if you got any nibbles. But I can't hate on anyone avoiding failbook.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 25, 2018 04:03 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: ShainS at February 25, 2018 03:53 PM (BiLU+)
My brother had a "Rat Patrol" lunch box!
Posted by: KWDreaming at February 25, 2018 04:04 PM (mBmTz)
It was a time warp, a bubble of 'normal' I realize now. Everything seemed to be a generation behind the rest of the country or two generations behind California.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 25, 2018 04:04 PM (xJa6I)
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That sounds like an outstanding price. I sold a Camry recently from the same year. I suspect, like me, what you're running into is older folks who are the demographic for that car not really being interested in buying used, or people who might be interesting being unable to come up with $3K.
If you can stand the craigslist BS someone will eventually snatch that up. It helps if you say in the ad that the person needs to use a particular (unusual) word or phrase in the email inquiry. That does a good job of weeding out scammers.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Hate Has No Home Here and the NRA and Gun Owners Can Go to Hell at February 25, 2018 04:05 PM (ks6bw)
Posted by: Traveling Man at February 25, 2018 04:05 PM (fIn37)
Tanks, ran the post gym and taught.
Idiot 2nd louie made the driver run without safety lights on a night exercise. Over a 10 foot cliff they went.
Driver killed.
He woke up in Walter Reed with a broken back and smashed left hip.
I started taking from him in 81. He was still "damn scary."
Posted by: teej at February 25, 2018 04:06 PM (9razJ)
NRA SPOKESWOMAN DANA LOESCH HAS BEEN RAILING AGAINST NEIL YOUNG FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS
Slut!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 25, 2018 04:06 PM (+y/Ru)
It's still a nice place relative to what happened to where you lived.
Lots of particleboard houses and people with cultural ad crime issue today. And some good folk too.
The history books say that Rocky Ford was the first ford on the Military Highway to Ft. Riley, and then a low-power hydro electric generating site. All gone.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 25, 2018 04:06 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: KWDreaming at February 25, 2018 04:06 PM (mBmTz)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Hate Has No Home Here and the NRA and Gun Owners Can Go to Hell at February 25, 2018 04:08 PM (ks6bw)
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Yeah, mid 80s in the South. You know. Where we grew up beside, went to school beside, worked beside, and lived beside black people our entire lives.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Hate Has No Home Here and the NRA and Gun Owners Can Go to Hell at February 25, 2018 04:10 PM (ks6bw)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 25, 2018 04:10 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 25, 2018 04:01 PM (NWiLs)
Thanks! Pleased to meet you.
Posted by: girldog at February 25, 2018 04:11 PM (g5YYQ)
Yeah, the generating station was defunct when I was there. The river backed up into those lower windows that are concreted closed now.
Posted by: teej at February 25, 2018 04:11 PM (9razJ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 25, 2018 04:13 PM (7iLWw)
NRA SPOKESWOMAN DANA LOESCH HAS BEEN RAILING AGAINST NEIL YOUNG FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS
Yeah, but Neil Young has been sucking for a lot longer than that.
Posted by: W. Brimley at February 25, 2018 04:13 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: rickl at February 25, 2018 04:16 PM (sdi6R)
Three in the front seat
they sat on each side
that green and white '58 Fairlane
it would glide
down farm roads past open fields
seeming like no big deal
as it was happening
I never felt a thing
but now looking back
it seems like it was everything
singing with Mom
just so we could hear ourselves sing
stealing a drink
from the cold can in Daddy's lap
protected by only
a small thin brown paper sack
And the wind blew the echoes
of long faded voices
And they'd sing me a song
that the old cowboy's sang
and I didn't know
what the words meant or anything
I was just singing
because I was supposed to
Saint Mother Maria
Watch over us, please
as we wander around
in this dangerous world
Saint Mother Maria,
there's nothing so sweet
as the undying love
of a south Texas girl
and with the windows wide open
it felt hot to us anyways
three bound together
on a day just like any day
they told me and taught me
and showed me and bought me
whatever I wanted
from the corner U-totem
................
And the wind blows the echoes
of long faded voices
And they sing us a song
that the old cowboy's sang
and now that I know
what the words mean and everything
I am still singing...
Saint Mother Maria
Watch over us, please
as we wander around
in this dangerous world
Saint Mother Maria,
there's nothing so sweet
as the undying love
of a south Texas girl
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2018 04:17 PM (V2Yro)
My dad taught me to check my oil and change a flat for a spare. My brother taught me how to wax a car to keep it "sharp".
I also miss being able to run the snowmobile all over the place when the lakes finally froze - but keep an eye on the fuel gauge!
I miss the corner gas and bait store that dad would take us on our way home from the dump. There was curbside pick-up back then, so we collected the garbage of all the widow-neighbors, too.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at February 25, 2018 04:19 PM (G8B7r)
All in all, this is a pretty depressing thread.
Because all of these things are gone is why kids can kill kids so easily IMHO.
Posted by: dartist at February 25, 2018 04:20 PM (nisXv)
Posted by: rickl"
What is depressing is we take my kid to South America most every summer to visit my wife's family for a few weeks, but even more to get a taste of what growing up without the nanny state is like. Kids are allowed to be kids there. My children love it, despite the poverty everywhere. Can't believe I have to do this in the "Land of the Free"
Posted by: Ripley at February 25, 2018 04:21 PM (MxEKc)
I miss Misty, the cantankerous pony and our long summer afternoon rides. The grown-up's rule was, if you can catch Misty, you can ride her. No sane grown-up was going to take time out of their busy day chasing, catching and bridling a stinker of a pony for us kids. So we learned how to lure her with apples, sweet talk and pet her, and then when she least expected it - ha! She was in the bridle.
Two girls would hop on her bare back, leap-frog style, from the rear. Misty was maybe one hand shy of being horse-sized, so she could handle to fifth-graders on her back. The remaining two girls rode their bikes, and down the country roads we would go, taking turns so that everyone got a turn to ride the pony. We'd be gone all day, or until Misty got sick of us and threw us off, whichever came first.
No matter how many miles from home, by the time we got back to the barn, riding tandem on the two bikes, Misty was always already there. She'd be standing outside the pen, nose-to-nose with the horses inside the pen, as if she was telling them all bitchy secrets about those damned kids who tricked her with apples, in order to slip a bridle over her head.
Posted by: Tired Mom at February 25, 2018 04:26 PM (A+OlC)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
How to treat a sucking chest wound?
Posted by: Sharkman at February 25, 2018 03:49 PM (GckyN)
I think all chest wounds kinda suck.
Posted by: West at February 25, 2018 04:29 PM (0BFUD)
Fishing for speckled trout in Panama City Bay w my Dad
My Yamaha 175 enduro
Surfing in tropical depressions in The gulf of Mexico
Being a long Haired Country Boy
Skynrd
Reagan
Friday night lights
Crabbing
Shucking oysters for my dad and his beer buddies
'77 Firebirds
Getting in a bar fight and shaking hands afterwards
Freedom
Posted by: George at February 25, 2018 04:32 PM (Fp8vG)
I was pretty sad to see that there are five registered sex offenders in the area, but then when I was a kid, no one knew who the convicted peeping Tom was because he had gotten out 30 years earlier and his kid was worse, a real molester.
I do miss that I can't give a lift to the neighbor kid when he got sick and couldn't remember his dad's phone number to pick him up. I remember when I broke a chain and a semi-stranger stopped, put my bike in the back of his truck, and gave me a nice slow ride home on the tailgate while my friends fell behind, pedaling like crazy. It was okay because he was a WW2 veteran and knew our neighbor.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at February 25, 2018 04:34 PM (G8B7r)
Posted by: Locke Common at February 25, 2018 04:34 PM (xS/N9)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at February 25, 2018 04:40 PM (2kiKp)
Posted by: Spacemann Spiff at February 25, 2018 04:42 PM (H8hht)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 25, 2018 04:46 PM (+BYq9)
Posted by: MassCon at February 25, 2018 04:47 PM (EIPeZ)
Posted by: rickl at February 25, 2018 04:47 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: W. Brimley at February 25, 2018 04:49 PM (oVJmc)
I really don't want to go out in the park, but I think I need to.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at February 25, 2018 04:50 PM (2sun5)
Posted by: Frank T. at February 25, 2018 04:53 PM (Izkhl)
Posted by: Morton at February 25, 2018 04:55 PM (qZ+PB)
Monthly drunk for the adults playing poker.
All the aunts, uncles and cousins for the summer picnic and winter Christmas party.
Long before geographic mobility became the norm.
sadz
Posted by: Kactus at February 25, 2018 04:55 PM (RV3mK)
with flag on my bicycle
Posted by: Kactus at February 25, 2018 04:57 PM (RV3mK)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 25, 2018 03:47 PM (hyuyC)
Rocky Ford of cantaloupe fame? Or a different Rocky Ford?
Posted by: Emmie -- please, no public display of insanity at February 25, 2018 05:01 PM (/A+Cl)
Rainy days were for inside play.
Posted by: steve walsh at February 25, 2018 05:02 PM (Y4Kqh)
Posted by: Kactus at February 25, 2018 05:02 PM (RV3mK)
Mine was damn near 300.
Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 25, 2018 03:31 PM
Mine was 3!
Damn near drove off the road that morning heading into college.
Posted by: Spun and Murky at February 25, 2018 05:04 PM (4DCSq)
Posted by: dartist at February 25, 2018 05:07 PM (nisXv)
Posted by: csmats at February 25, 2018 05:26 PM (yKiwk)
"No, I miss that kind of clarity."
Posted by: Corona at February 25, 2018 05:55 PM (2bC+G)
Tornados don't miss them though.
Posted by: Burger Chef at February 25, 2018 06:06 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: B at February 25, 2018 06:09 PM (RYU7D)
Yes. This. Very much.
We've been torn for decades.
Posted by: B at February 25, 2018 06:11 PM (RYU7D)
Posted by: rickl at February 25, 2018 06:18 PM (sdi6R)
I miss getting my pajamas on for Friday nights at the drive in. My sisters and I would grab our blankets and pillows and Mom and Dad would load us into their Ford LTD station wagon and off we went. Many times my sisters and I would end up star gazing, eating popcorn and watching people go to and from the snack bar, making up stories about their lives.
I generally miss how simple things seemed then and how time felt so much slower..... to allow us to revel in our youth.
Posted by: Smalls at February 25, 2018 06:19 PM (WInsQ)
Posted by: jakee308 at February 25, 2018 06:33 PM (/P0gj)
Posted by: dartist at February 25, 2018 06:40 PM (nisXv)
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Maybe we can give him a stroke by flashing a strobing GIF at him? Or is that a different Von Shitball?
Posted by: andycanuck at February 25, 2018 06:47 PM (ewxPW)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Disgustipated at February 25, 2018 06:50 PM (IMacf)
Posted by: Obama waving from Martha's Vineyard at February 25, 2018 06:50 PM (MQjX1)
Posted by: LGoPs at February 25, 2018 06:51 PM (UThOJ)
Posted by: Martell at February 25, 2018 06:53 PM (TnGIG)
It's a place north of Manhattan, Kansas on the Big Blue River. So a different Ford.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 25, 2018 07:09 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: tmitsss at February 25, 2018 07:25 PM (ZYgGF)
We had friendly "rock fights" where we would divide into two teams and throw dirt clods at each other; I still have the scar on one cornea to prove it. I remember that one of my buddies was a black kid and we didn't think anything about the color of his skin.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at February 25, 2018 07:28 PM (5Yee7)
I grew up on a small place 1/3 of an acre in San Fernando Ca, near Los Angeles. Imagine that!
We had goats, chickens, cats and dogs. That was the 40's...I miss that.
Posted by: Sweet Andy Licious at February 25, 2018 08:11 PM (Mo5Uy)
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Kim Dotcom Goes Scorched Earth On Obama, Hillary and the Deep State For Destroying Civil Liberties in the United States
Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 25, 2018 08:17 PM (y3aQB)
Chemistry sets that let you do real chemistry. It's what got me interested in the subject.
"Slowly drip the water into the trimethylaluminum..."
*****************
"Slowly drip the acid into the Sodium FerroCYANIDE...."
Posted by: Noam Sayen at February 25, 2018 09:44 PM (611Lm)
Our school was poor. "How poor?", you ask.
Well, you know those Periodic Table of the Elements decorating the walls in many classrooms?
All we had on our chart were the Akali Metals and the Lanthanide series.
Posted by: Noam Sayen at February 25, 2018 09:53 PM (611Lm)
She relied on people to help, and they did.
Posted by: TomP at February 25, 2018 09:58 PM (XdroR)
Posted by: Anne R. Abler at February 26, 2018 02:12 AM (gRjsG)
It's like all I get to learn now on TV or in the news is horrible shit or lies. Very depressing. I think it would do the world good if we could just turn off the media for a year.
Posted by: ripley at February 26, 2018 06:00 AM (E9t0I)
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