I'm so old I Remember when:

[Insnesnakos]

These?
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These look very uncomfortable

 

[Insnesnakos]

I remember getting my hand smacked with a ruler if I got caught writing left handed in school. I'm still left handed though

Left-handedness is far more accepted now. Nobody gets smacked!

 

[casportpony]

These look very uncomfortable

They were!

 

[casportpony]

Still got mine!

 

[RoyalChick]

These look very uncomfortable

You strapped them to your shoes not your bare feet.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Not if someone is holding a gun to your head. You are ordering pizza...... then.

Hmm good point

 

[Insnesnakos]

You strapped them to your shoes not your bare feet.

That sounds much better

 

[casportpony]

That sounds much better

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

They dragged wrecked car into the parking lot and had a whole play about drinking and driving at my school. That brought in police cars and EMS. They even had the funeral home drive in with a hearse to take away the kid that “died” in the crash

Yup, they were still doing that when my daughters were in jr. and sr. high (early 2000s). The kids just rolled their eyes and my girls called it "a waste of time"(except for the drama students who acted in the "play" and got out of other classes for it). Just like the D.A.R.E. anti-drug program. As with my (60s) generation, the in-school programs went so hysterical and frankly lied about so much (pot does not equal heroin, thank you) that kids experimented anyway, trusting peers more than the adults in authority. As for the careless driving, didn't seem to make any difference.

 

[Brooks_]

I remember searching change for silver coins! I always saved them aside...I still have a big box filled with old silver coins. Can't remember when I stopped looking because they'd disappeared

I've only found a couple nickles with silver content in recent years. They were less known be the gen pop.