The Old Folks Home

[tntchix]

re: cereal box, stuff like that makes me want to seal the box up and return it to the grocery store ASAP.

 

[RoboDuck]

I don't have the attention span to read over 25,000 posts so I will just have to tune into the program already in progress.

Here's my resume to see if I qualify to be here....

I'm old enough to remember cars with 8 track players, console TVs and stereos, LP's, using maps to get places, stopping to use a pay phone (10 cents), dialing 0 to get the operator to connect you to the police, Saturday Morning cartoons (the good ones), Full Service gas stations and you had to tell them "regular or unleaded", if you wanted to know about something you looked it up in an encyclopedia, writing letters to people and mailing them, we didn't use bicycle helmets, toys could still kill you, smoking was allowed indoors, we could carry a pocket knife to school without being considered a threat to society, people in charge actually made decisions instead of hiding behind zero tolerance policies, we played outside until Mom called us in for dinner (where we sat down at the table as a family and then we went back out and played until bedtime, and going camping or hunting for the weekend and having absolutely NO contact with the outside world.

So, do I qualify to post here?

 

[Alaskan]

I don't have the attention span to read over 25,000 posts so I will just have to tune into the program already in progress.

Here's my resume to see if I qualify to be here....

I'm old enough to remember cars with 8 track players, console TVs and stereos, LP's, using maps to get places, stopping to use a pay phone (10 cents), dialing 0 to get the operator to connect you to the police, Saturday Morning cartoons (the good ones), Full Service gas stations and you had to tell them "regular or unleaded", if you wanted to know about something you looked it up in an encyclopedia, writing letters to people and mailing them, we didn't use bicycle helmets, toys could still kill you, smoking was allowed indoors, we could carry a pocket knife to school without being considered a threat to society, people in charge actually made decisions instead of hiding behind zero tolerance policies, we played outside until Mom called us in for dinner (where we sat down at the table as a family and then we went back out and played until bedtime, and going camping or hunting for the weekend and having absolutely NO contact with the outside world.

So, do I qualify to post here?

I even carried a machete to school one day...no one even stopped me and asked me about it.

I think someone else brought a rifle.....

 

[RoboDuck]

Once I started driving to school, I took a rifle every Friday during deer season so I could leave straight from school and head to the hunting club for the weekend.

 

[ronott1]

Once I started driving to school, I took a rifle every Friday during deer season so I could leave straight from school and head to the hunting club for the weekend.

When I was in High School, the Cowboys had shotguns and or rifles in gun racks in the back window of their pickups. They parked in the student parking lot with them too.

 

[Highcotton]

Once I started driving to school, I took a rifle every Friday during deer season so I could leave straight from school and head to the hunting club for the weekend.

A rifle in a gun rack was not unusual and you didn't have to worry about it getting stolen in those days.

 

[Highcotton]

Once I started driving to school, I took a rifle every Friday during deer season so I could leave straight from school and head to the hunting club for the weekend.

Welcome to this thread Roboduck.

 

[perchie.girl]

I don't have the attention span to read over 25,000 posts so I will just have to tune into the program already in progress.

Here's my resume to see if I qualify to be here....

I'm old enough to remember cars with 8 track players, console TVs and stereos, LP's, using maps to get places, stopping to use a pay phone (10 cents), dialing 0 to get the operator to connect you to the police, Saturday Morning cartoons (the good ones), Full Service gas stations and you had to tell them "regular or unleaded", if you wanted to know about something you looked it up in an encyclopedia, writing letters to people and mailing them, we didn't use bicycle helmets, toys could still kill you, smoking was allowed indoors, we could carry a pocket knife to school without being considered a threat to society, people in charge actually made decisions instead of hiding behind zero tolerance policies, we played outside until Mom called us in for dinner (where we sat down at the table as a family and then we went back out and played until bedtime, and going camping or hunting for the weekend and having absolutely NO contact with the outside world.

So, do I qualify to post here?

Welcome to the thread Roboduck... I remember full service gas stations when there was NO unleaded... Only Regular and Super.... And with each fillup you got a set of glasses, or a toy or dishes..... and my dad saying Naw dont need a map.... Oh and cigarettes cost the same as a gallon of gas.... 25 cents.... Um er.... they still cost the same (as each other0) here.... And you could buy the cigarettes in the vending machine in the lobby... any lobby....

I remember when 8 track players were invented..... Our first color TV was a Heathkit with TUBES that had to be checked at the drug store....

My dad was the first one on our block to put seat belts in the car....

deb

 

[RoboDuck]

Thanks. I figured I would try this thread and converse with folks that remember life before internet when we still had verbal skills. I have never been on Spacebook, My Face or Tweeter. I have never selfied. I'm still not sure what an Instantgram is. This is pretty much it for my "social media" where I can share my interests with other chicken, duck, goose, turkey, guinea, donkey, horse, goat, pig, dog, cat owners.

 

[Wisher1000]

I don't have the attention span to read over 25,000 posts so I will just have to tune into the program already in progress.

Here's my resume to see if I qualify to be here....

I'm old enough to remember cars with 8 track players, console TVs and stereos, LP's, using maps to get places, stopping to use a pay phone (10 cents), dialing 0 to get the operator to connect you to the police, Saturday Morning cartoons (the good ones), Full Service gas stations and you had to tell them "regular or unleaded", if you wanted to know about something you looked it up in an encyclopedia, writing letters to people and mailing them, we didn't use bicycle helmets, toys could still kill you, smoking was allowed indoors, we could carry a pocket knife to school without being considered a threat to society, people in charge actually made decisions instead of hiding behind zero tolerance policies, we played outside until Mom called us in for dinner (where we sat down at the table as a family and then we went back out and played until bedtime, and going camping or hunting for the weekend and having absolutely NO contact with the outside world.

So, do I qualify to post here?

If we required a resume (or even that one is actually old) that one would qualify you. Since we don't , however, welcome aboard!