I'm so old I Remember when:

[16 and me]

Once my mom was driving with me in the middle and my brother was sitting on the arm rest on the door panel so he was high enough to see out the windshield.
We went around a corner and the door popped open and out he went. I watched him cartwheel into the ditch. Mom stopped retrieved him. Gave him the once over while dusting him off. Back in the car he went and off we went.
I don't remember him sitting on or against the door ever again.

That happened to me! Old green station wagon, leaning against it eating cornflakes out of the box on my way to school! There were cornflakes everywhere Mom did the same thing - and off to school I went.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

That's right! If you survived you must be okay, life goes on. Doctors were for emergencies!

 

[Nomadicus]

I remember when men got what was considered bad language out of their system out behind the barn and not in the family room.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I remember when men got what was considered bad language out of their system out behind the barn and not in the family room.

And ladies didn't use that language at all? I remember too, Larry.

 

[Folly's place]

Ladies and men were more likely to vent with their friends of the same sex... Not always, but often.
When writers of plays and movies wrote actual dialog, not just strings of bad language. So unoriginal!
Mary

 

[Coffetym]

Party lines & rotary dial phones.

 

[Coffetym]

Kids riding to town in the back of a pickup truck.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Jenny went out without me today! Well ... sorta. I still had to walk with her up the stairs and open the door for her, but then she went out by herself.. and looked over her shoulder as if to say, Well? Are you coming? But it was raining and I decided not to. And she needed to go, so ... off she trotted, to go do her business. Without me!

When we are not here, she certainly goes out without us, so I know she can do it.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Oops, meant to post in a different thread.

 

[Coffetym]

Black Droth, 3 Sixes, & home remedies!

And ladies didn't use that language at all? I remember too, Larry.

When ladies were more likely to be ladies & men were usually gentlemen!