I remember....
I remember....
My brothers and I used to take rolls of caps (remember them?) and hit the little exploding dots with a rock or hammer. Sometimes we’d fold them so we were striking several caps at a time. I can still remember that smell. We were warned over and over again we would lose a finger but we did it anyway. We all still have ten fingers.
I think it's less about the kids and more about hysterical and over-managing parents (and govt).
I never did shoot my eye out.......
They take lead out of paint but put mercury in your light bulbs.
Mom's what smoked?
Regards,
True for Laz, if you leave out the "Base paint" part...
Coke was that bottle you shook to spray at your friends rather than snort.
I rode my bike through the mosquito spray cloud for fun.
If I got in trouble at school it was going to be twice as bad when I got home.
Remember the days when Americans could, without the help of computer software, write well and use standard grammar and punctuation?
And today, many Americans even with such technologies could not write a simple paragraph that would earn a passing grade in a 7th grade English Composition class.
School started with the pledge AND the Lord’s Prayer. I remember that, 55 years ago.
I also remember wandering the hills all day with my friends and we would drink any water we could find, creek water, dirty cow troughs out in fields, anything. We would also swim in any waterhole we could find, even if it was covered in scum and god knows what else. We never seemed to get sick though.
Tackle football with no pads, sometimes in the snow. Entertaining yourself. Settling your own disputes with other kids.
I’m too young to remember the good old days.
When I was growing up, something called “diversity” was all the rage, and the promotion of this “diversity” was considered what made America so great. Al Sharpton was considered a respected political commentator.
Japan, for example, built consumer electronics. America is great because we have a “black president.”
American culture is a moral and aesthetic sewer. The government is unresponsive to our concerns. It seems to be controlled by millionaires who want to dismantle this country, but who say whatever they need to say to get elected, and then do whatever they please.
I can’t remember a time (having entered adulthood around the time of the Monica Lewinsky scandal) when I was satisfied with either the government or the economy. This whole setup never seemed right to me.
Something went seriously wrong with America before I was born. It seems to have happened in the 1960s and 1970s. You can see it in pictures: how nice people dressed and looked back then compared to how they look today.
I identify with America as it existed before the Baby Boomers went to college. You can look back at previous generations and marvel at their accomplishments. They “won the West” and built the Panama Canal and put a man on the moon.
The last two generations have utterly squandered their inheritance. They drove America off the cliff.
Certainly, I will live to see the inevitable bankruptcy of this whole rotten society, after it finally collapses under its own weight when the people who live here realize they nothing in common with each other, and get fed up with paying the annual tribute to Washington which can’t do a single thing right.
yeah, my mom smoked and drank...
And I was born 6 lbs 6 ozs and with a club-foot...