[ansel12]

I consider that skit as a fairly accurate representation of America, before 1970.

In America, people trusted each other, we actually left our keys in the car in our driveways, I never owned a house key, our windows were kept wide open, our bicycles lay out in the front yard.

Banks trusted us when we forgot our driver’s license, checks were passed around freely, neighbors frequently entered each other’s homes without knocking.

In a restaurant you just left the money on the table and walked out. It was assumed that people always did the right thing, that was just the norm.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Sure, but we never got free stuff. We did not get free money from the banks, free newspapers, dancing and drinks on buses, etc. Nor would we want free stuff. The ethos of America has always been to “owe no man anything but to love one another”!

[Forgotten Amendments]

I consider that skit as a fairly accurate representation of America, before 1970.

In America, people trusted each other, we actually left our keys in the car in our driveways, I never owned a house key, our windows were kept wide open, our bicycles lay out in the front yard.

Actually, crime is a fraction of what it was in the '60s and '70s. But you have a point. Back then, we were rational, free people. Today we are terrorized infants.

This is one of my all-time favorite SNL bits.

[Canedawg]

It was assumed that people always did the right thing, that was just the norm.

Sadly, those days are gone.