I'm so old I Remember when:

[Nym]

Such a great movie!!

 

[R2elk]

That reminds me of my oldest daughter. She was so excited to start school. But when she came home after her first day, she informed me that she wasn't going back. She angrily said that they were supposed to teach her to read, but all they did was color. And if that's all school was good for, she'd just as soon stay home.

All of us knew how to read before we ever started school. Of course that was before kindergarten existed.

 

[sdm111]

The Ebola outbreak

Anthrax, although that wasn't that long ago. In the fire department we had so many frivolous calls we went to all anthrax calls went out on the nextel phones.

 

[The Moonshiner]

They wired it to make it look like it was blowing

 

[Hayden Goseek]

They say Lloyd Bridges HATED water.
And Lorne Greene Hated horses.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

Fall of the Berlin wall.

I met some vacationers from West Germany at that time and was giving them a tour of New Orleans by car. I asked if they were keeping up with the news from home. They said "No."
I laughed and said "Well, your going home to a whole different country!"

 

[chrissynemetz]

All of us knew how to read before we ever started school. Of course that was before kindergarten existed.

She could read at about what you'd expect for her age, but she was really thinking she would be able to read The Call of The Wild by the first week of school.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

The Ebola outbreak

It was serious for me. I was part of a start up hospital and we were scared to death someone was going to walk in with it. No one wanted to go through all the isolation procedures.

 

[Brooks_]

3 mile island

 

[Nomadicus]

Which one?
I remember the start of the HIV/AIDs epidemic.

My mom's oldest sister was born with a rare blood disease. For decades she got a monthly transfusion until she got a bad batch before HIV/AIDs was even talked about. There were no screenings for bad blood with the virus. Even when she died no one mentioned AIDs. Some years later it was pointed out that all of her symptoms pointed to aids. She was a widow in her late 60's at the time or maybe 70's.