Posted By: GuybrushThreepwood
half a century plus 1 - 03/02/15 06:06 PM
51 today. I've survived:
Spankings.
Riding in a car with out seat belts. Even been occasions where I rode in the back of a pick up truck.
Riding in a car with out air conditioning.
Riding a bicycle (and falling off ) it without a helmet
Falling off a skateboard (I wouldn't call what I did riding it) without arm pads and shin guards
Drinking water out of a rubber garden hose.
Eating restaurant food only 4 times a year (3 kids' birthdays and Mother's Day)
Walking to school and back home again. I honestly cannot remember ever having a "snow day" with no school or school being canceled because it was too hot in the summer
Public school when it was perfectly legal to carry a pocket knife to school. No one to my knowledge ever got stabbed or even threatened
Starting the school day with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag (in Hawaii also sang the state song)
Getting the grades I actually earned whether they were As and Bs for good work or Cs and Ds for bad. Don't think I ever got an F, which stood for FAILURE!
Gender specific gym (ie boys only in my case). Only in high school did they start mixing boys and girls.
Participating in a sports where one side won and won side lost. Its important to learn how to do both well.
Not being good at sports and not feeling bad about it.
Cafeteria food without Mrs. Nixon, Mrs. Ford or Mrs. Carter planning the menu, including pizza topped with sliced hotdogs instead of peperoni.
Soda pop (for children) beer (for adults) coming in GLASS bottles or cans (which were hard, not easy to crush with your bare hands) which required special openers to open.
Root beer with actual Sassafras root (banned because rats get cancer when over dozed, I'm not going to drink a forest nanny state), and real sugar (not this corn syrup [blip])
Playing with cap pistols and squirt guns or just using finger and thumb to make the gun
Playing cops & robbers and cowboys & indians
A younger sister who sometimes thought she was second mother
Sharing a bed room with even younger brother
Shooting off fireworks all week to celebrate Independence Day not just two days and the fire crackers, even the small legal ones had more bang
B/W TV, no remote control and the stations went off the air at midnight
Telephones with dials, attached to the wall
No computers, no video games, no cell phones
I miss... (some of these only make sense if you've lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, sorry)
Root beer with actual root (sassafras)
7UP that had a bite
Paying $25 cents for one of the above in GLASS bottles, requiring a special opener
Valentino's meatball sandwich (no one makes them like they used to
Sam's 3 hamburgers for $1.00
Going into King's for Cheese Frenchies and Green rivers
Greenwhich Cafe, rest of the family had fish, I had hamburgers (I still don't care for seafood)
Kenny Roger's Roasters, had a BBQ chicken sandwich I used to pick up on the way to work
the chicken sandwich Arby's used to have (same reason as KRR)
Little Caesars' square pizzas, you got two, even the minis (the current version of Little Caesars isn't the same at all)
Cool Crest miniature golf course
Tastee Inn & Out, with the drive through on the passenger side
Snowball (1970s/80s), my family's first pet cat, a siameseish cat that as a kitten was very white, as he got older he was more of a dust ball. The funny thing is, we got him in Hawaii, no snow. To quote my sister when I posted his pictures on Facebook last night "Best cat EVER". Died of complications from diabetes. Didn't know cats got it.
Polly ((June 15, 1997 - August 02, 2009) a cat who adopted me. I sat on a stoop, this little black kitten climbed on my lap and purred. She didn't stay black long, soon developed browns, grays, whites. Blue eyes turned green. Died of kidney failure. Apparently common in cats.
I haven't mentioned any people because talking about the girl who broke my heart many years ago or all the family who have died will give me a sad birthday. I did post some of their photos on my Facebook page though. And anyway you most likely wouldn't have known them, unless you've lived in Nebraska or Missouri.
Spankings.
Riding in a car with out seat belts. Even been occasions where I rode in the back of a pick up truck.
Riding in a car with out air conditioning.
Riding a bicycle (and falling off ) it without a helmet
Falling off a skateboard (I wouldn't call what I did riding it) without arm pads and shin guards
Drinking water out of a rubber garden hose.
Eating restaurant food only 4 times a year (3 kids' birthdays and Mother's Day)
Walking to school and back home again. I honestly cannot remember ever having a "snow day" with no school or school being canceled because it was too hot in the summer
Public school when it was perfectly legal to carry a pocket knife to school. No one to my knowledge ever got stabbed or even threatened
Starting the school day with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag (in Hawaii also sang the state song)
Getting the grades I actually earned whether they were As and Bs for good work or Cs and Ds for bad. Don't think I ever got an F, which stood for FAILURE!
Gender specific gym (ie boys only in my case). Only in high school did they start mixing boys and girls.
Participating in a sports where one side won and won side lost. Its important to learn how to do both well.
Not being good at sports and not feeling bad about it.
Cafeteria food without Mrs. Nixon, Mrs. Ford or Mrs. Carter planning the menu, including pizza topped with sliced hotdogs instead of peperoni.
Soda pop (for children) beer (for adults) coming in GLASS bottles or cans (which were hard, not easy to crush with your bare hands) which required special openers to open.
Root beer with actual Sassafras root (banned because rats get cancer when over dozed, I'm not going to drink a forest nanny state), and real sugar (not this corn syrup [blip])
Playing with cap pistols and squirt guns or just using finger and thumb to make the gun
Playing cops & robbers and cowboys & indians
A younger sister who sometimes thought she was second mother
Sharing a bed room with even younger brother
Shooting off fireworks all week to celebrate Independence Day not just two days and the fire crackers, even the small legal ones had more bang
B/W TV, no remote control and the stations went off the air at midnight
Telephones with dials, attached to the wall
No computers, no video games, no cell phones
I miss... (some of these only make sense if you've lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, sorry)
Root beer with actual root (sassafras)
7UP that had a bite
Paying $25 cents for one of the above in GLASS bottles, requiring a special opener
Valentino's meatball sandwich (no one makes them like they used to
Sam's 3 hamburgers for $1.00
Going into King's for Cheese Frenchies and Green rivers
Greenwhich Cafe, rest of the family had fish, I had hamburgers (I still don't care for seafood)
Kenny Roger's Roasters, had a BBQ chicken sandwich I used to pick up on the way to work
the chicken sandwich Arby's used to have (same reason as KRR)
Little Caesars' square pizzas, you got two, even the minis (the current version of Little Caesars isn't the same at all)
Cool Crest miniature golf course
Tastee Inn & Out, with the drive through on the passenger side
Snowball (1970s/80s), my family's first pet cat, a siameseish cat that as a kitten was very white, as he got older he was more of a dust ball. The funny thing is, we got him in Hawaii, no snow. To quote my sister when I posted his pictures on Facebook last night "Best cat EVER". Died of complications from diabetes. Didn't know cats got it.
Polly ((June 15, 1997 - August 02, 2009) a cat who adopted me. I sat on a stoop, this little black kitten climbed on my lap and purred. She didn't stay black long, soon developed browns, grays, whites. Blue eyes turned green. Died of kidney failure. Apparently common in cats.
I haven't mentioned any people because talking about the girl who broke my heart many years ago or all the family who have died will give me a sad birthday. I did post some of their photos on my Facebook page though. And anyway you most likely wouldn't have known them, unless you've lived in Nebraska or Missouri.
How times have changed 
