Back when I was your age...

when we got thirsty, we drank directly from the garden hose...

I will have to echo Turtletownman on this.

The gas wars kept prices between $.23 and .$26 per gallon.
A new Mustang pony was $2800
The 750 Honda was the biggest improvement in motorcycles in decades and was a rocket ship.
Triumph's could not be made to run reliably.
I could drive my 67 GT390 Mustang fastback all week for a couple of bucks.
I could walk a 1/2 mile to the park without my Mom getting arrested.

Marc

I remember coming home from grade school and changing out of my uniform (yea Catholic School) and into a pair of shorts. No shoes no shirt. I was gone till dark - mommy didn't know where I was but wasn't worried. I always managed to show up for dinner. Got hosed down outside to get sweat and grim off - clean pair of shorts- dirty ones saved for tomorrow. We watched black and white tv while mon and dad smoked cigs all through fried food dinner. Oh yea and "children were meant to be seen and not heard". Every hear that one.

You had to listen to the number of rings on the party line before answering.
Gas was 26cents and McDonalds was 15cents a hamburger.

BUT I still prefer NOW! Sorry but I live a better life now than dem good old days.

You guys are talking 70/80s.... Im talking 50s....

Yup, can still taste rubber.....

And if you got a drink of water in the house, it was from an aluminum (called it "tin cup" back then) cup. And if you had really good water like where I grew up, it tasted better than anything then or now.

And another one (I've heard echoed by another Inmate at a rally).... During warm season, you probably got bathed before nightfall and played some more. So before going to bed, you washed behind your ears, face, hands, and soles of feet with a wash cloth before going to bed. Even if you didn't get a bath that day.

Probably a Southern thing.

Back when I was your age, there was no such thing as butt dialing.

We delivered newspapers in the winter in Wisconsin, in the snow, on a single speed Schwinn bicycle with a extra large basket on the front of it. And that was after going to the place where the paper bundles were delivered and we had to "sub" them, by putting them together with all the different sections before we started out delivering.

I never delivered papers. Back when I was your age all news was chiseled in stone tables and placed near the village well where the person who could read spread the news OR we watched CNN.....

I call Bullshit!....lol

No really. It was called cave news now. I remember Wolf Blitzer was always outside howling.