When I Was a Kid....

[Grifters]

WIWAK there was still penny candy

 

[Latina49]

WIWAK there was still penny candy

WIWAK...there was 3 for a penny and a small little brown bags made especially for my penny candies now-a-days it would hold a 12 oz can of beer...lol

 

[lakesailer_mi]

WIWAK the attendant would come out of the gas station and pump the gas, check your oil and wiper blades, and generally make a nuicance of themselves.

 

[Salenku]

WIWAK the attendant would come out of the gas station and pump the gas, check your oil and wiper blades, and generally make a nuicance of themselves.

When I was a kid the Internet didn't exist yet. Well, not properly.

 

[Ellafun]

WIWAK, there were no pull tabs on soda (or beer!) cans. We had to use the pointed end of the churchkey to open the cans.

Go ahead, Sweetness...google images for "churchkey." lol!

 

[lakesailer_mi]

When I was a kid the Internet didn't exist yet. Well, not properly.

WIWAK the very first home computers came out.

WIWAK, there were no pull tabs on soda (or beer!) cans. We had to use the pointed end of the churchkey to open the cans.

Go ahead, Sweetness...google images for "churchkey." lol!

WIWAK we used to collect beer cans, and flat tops were the coolest!

 

[Ellafun]

WIWAK we used to collect beer cans, and flat tops were the coolest!

We used to cut off both ends of 5 cans, leave one end on the 6th with a hole punched in it and duct tape them together. Add lighter fluid and a match = mini cannon.

 

[BlackCashmere]

When I was a kid..***** was purely magical...My childhood was charmed...

And not that life is not beautiful now...But I miss my dad beyond what I could have ever imagined and not having him here to share my life with is life changing... and heart wrenching...

I miss my best friend ( my dad)...and ache for the unconditional love and emotional security he gave to me...

 

[lance gt]

WIWAK George Reeves was Superman, Johnny Weismueller was Tarzan, Buster Crabbe was Flash Gordon and it was magical to watch on the tiny oval B&W TV.

Cartoons were adult oriented and beyond the comprehension of kids, but we laughed anyway. I watched the original Flintstone episodes that they won't show now and that's when I understood what was going on.

 

[respeito]

When I was a kid, I thought it would be cool to live like The Jetsons.

 

[KEZZER]

WIWAK I thought that the year 2000 was ages away and 35 would be really old.

 

[Roxanne_Smith69]

When I was a Kid...

A man we'd never met came by before sunrise and left fresh bottles of milk in a metal box on the front porch. AND he took away our empty bottles.

That man was my dad!

Mine too!!

Rox

 

[coffeelady]

When I was a kid, children didn't address adults by their first name, and if you did, there was hell to pay. There was also no obsession with hand sanitisers. We played in the dirt, came inside and washed our hands with soap - we didn't coat them in alcohol-based solution designed to kill every germ known to mankind.

 

[efs]

civilization wasnt nearly as brain dead as it is now. kids werent drugged, they went outside to play and got dirty, if there was any "bullying" the kid either got picked on and dealt with it and didnt run and kill themself, or he finally stood up to the prick/pricks and gave him/them and asswhippin finally and it ended. or they waited till they got older and finally ran into them later in life..... cartoons were badass, not the pussy cartoons that are on now because they couldnt possibly show those horrible cartoons we grew up with because theyre not politically correct, noone was trying to constantly make laws to protect us from ourselves, im going to stop here.......i could take up a few pages with this shit.......

oh, yeah........and i got blamed for everything that happened in my neighborhood by everyone, whether i did it or not!.......just like today!!!!!

 

[Jimbo34]

When I was a kid, we'd walk along with the mailman and help deliver the mail.. our parents allowed us off the block for several blocks in each direction. that would NEVER happen in this day and age..

 

[papadoc19]

WIWAK the summer and winter Olympics happened in the same year...

 

[hwwannabe]

When I was a kid, I rolled my eyes when a grown up started on one of their "When I was a kid..." stories. Why didn't they get that I already knew everything?

 

[papadoc19]

WIWAK I dreaded going to the doctor or dentist...and I still do...

 

[Ellafun]

WIWAK...A summer cold didn't knock the shit out of me the way this one has...UGH!

 

[o_so_wet]

WIWAK I used to think that if I wished it hard enough, "it" would come true.....(I still do sometimes )

 

[respeito]

when i was a kid, you settled your differences with a good old fashioned break dance battle.

no fists
no guns
no knives

just a one on one dance off to protect your rep and keep your street cred.

 

[EctoJohn]

When I was a kid, skateboarders actually did something other than roll.
Not that I was ever one, but kids on them would always be trying to do big, awesome tricks.

Now all I see are these flat, longboard skatboards and it's depressing.
Just slowly rolling along more because the kids are too lazy to walk rather than their desire to actually skateboard.

Skateboarders were almost always skinny kids that were in good shape because it was a very active thing.

Now I see fat kids rolling downhill, their brains barely operating well enough to stand on this thing that looks like a model surfboard with skateboard wheels attached.

Gee, I wonder why we're getting fatter.
Maybe it's because activities kids do, like skateboarding and riding a scooter, that used to actually require effort have been reduced to motionless rolling or scooters with motors on them.
Making your kids go outside to play isn't giving them exercise if their scooter has a motor on it.

 

[respeito]

[snip]

Gee, I wonder why we're getting fatter.
Maybe it's because activities kids do, like skateboarding and riding a scooter, that used to actually require effort have been reduced to motionless rolling or scooters with motors on them.
Making your kids go outside to play isn't giving them exercise if their scooter has a motor on it.

which brings up an excellent point : when we were kids, we played outside all day long. going inside only to use the bathroom and or grab a hostess fruit pie.


mmmm cherry fruit pies...

 

[mulehead61]

WIWAK everyone had to be home before the 9 o'clock whistle stopped....

(heaven help your ass if you didn't...)

 

[papadoc19]

WIWAK the thought that one of my teachers had a thread here would be shocking but very hot