OT: The Good Old Days

cshank2 · #1 May 3rd, 2006, 01:49 AM

You guys are lucky to have memories like this. I moved around so much I never even got to settle in with friends or anything. :/

EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro · #2 May 3rd, 2006, 04:07 PM

Hey Atro, did you hear about one of the local schools lowering the requirements to be a valedictorian? That's so there are more valedictorians and less people will have their feelings hurt.

I miss the days of steam powered televisions!

Cipher7071 · #3 May 3rd, 2006, 05:25 PM

Well that's a switch. Schmaltz Atrocities?

ZeroAdunn · #4 May 14th, 2006, 02:47 PM

The problem is when you are a kid, you see the world through kid eyes. I could create an equally long list of things that were wrong with the 50s - 70s but have either bene improved or completely stopped.

RonGianti · #5 May 15th, 2006, 12:56 PM

Don't forget LAWN DARTS. You'd be arrested for giving a kid lawn darts these days.

My friends have teenage and early 20 year old kids. They are not "bad" kids, but MAN they have no motivation beyond sitting in the house, playing video games. Can't light a fire under them for ANYTHING.

But I hated my childhood. My parents let me know I was in the way all the time. My HS graduation gift was luggage. I took the hint and moved out before the summer was 1/2 over. I like my life now WAY better than childhood. Good job, great wife, decent health, nice quiet home to go to at night and a handful of friends to hang with. Its a quiet, peaceful life, I like it.

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 May 15th, 2006, 05:34 PM

My dad thinks we should ship teenagers off to a third world country for a year or two.

Kamog · #7 May 16th, 2006, 12:23 AM

I remember playing lawn darts when I was a kid. Nobody thought it was dangerous back then. Of course, it was common sense that you don't throw them when somebody's anywhere in front of you.

Hunpecked · #8 May 3rd, 2006, 06:15 PM

Oh wow, cshank2, you were SO lucky to see so many places as a kid! Kindergarten through high school I lived in the same old town!

cshank2 · #9 May 3rd, 2006, 07:10 PM

Hahahaha. Yeah...

I was always moving around the midwest... so different places were all the same, just a varying ammount of wildlife...

Here's a literal conversation between me and my grandma.

"Tree... tree... Dead Deer.... HEY THERE'S A COW!"
"So we're in Wisconsin?"

Yeah... My Childhood sucked.

Hunpecked · #10 May 3rd, 2006, 08:30 PM

Ask Narf for some nice cheese.