From Days Gone By... What DON'T You Miss?

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Lyndon Johnson
Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton
The Great Society.

 

[Aticus]

Being young and stupid.

Pecos

 

[medxam]

Being a medical intern, working 36 hrs on and off 12 if you were lucky for $100.00/mo.

medxam

 

[John Eilertson]

Obviously I can't speak for anyone else, but I certainly don't miss "meatless Fridays." I think that was changed in '66, but I'm not certain. What I AM certain of is, I like steak!

 

[nicky4968]

A certain judge I worked for for too dang long.

 

[buckeyeshooter1]

I thought this would be a good flip side to the thread in which we list what we miss from yesteryear. To what have we said "good riddance"? I'll start with some of mine, and I'll add to it later.

Over-the-air television. I love DirecTV and recently added a DVR.

1970's, 80's, or 90's GM products, with a few exceptions.

Classic rock. Never liked it.

Telephones stuck on the wall or in a phone booth.

Encyclopedias.

The library's card catalog. Maybe the library, for that matter.

Three hour church services on Sunday morning, followed by another at 6 PM. What *were* my parents thinking?

Being single. So far, 12 years of being married to the same woman has been pretty good to me.

Virginity.

Snail mail.

John Cooper's record against Michigan.

Riverfront Stadium.

Elementary school, middle school, and high school. Socially unpleasant and B.O.R.I.N.G.

Nine years of piano lessons and the estimated 5,000 hours my mother forced me to sit at its bench. I own that selfsame piano today and haven't burned it yet. Guess what I don't play?

Credit card debt.

Quite a few coworkers. If you stank, literally or figuratively, I'm happy not to see you or work with you.

Annual reviews, bosses who have no idea what you do or the value of your output, and 4% annual raises. Being an independent contractor rocks your face off.

John Cooper period! I could not stand that guy or his stupid daughter on local tv football!

 

[jimmyj]

1. Basic Training
2. Hippies
3. Riots

 

[anothermiller]

The pinto,gremlin and chevette..junk cars.


What were those execs thinking.

 

[SmokewagonSD]

One channel of TV, milking cows by hand, stacking baled hay.

 

[labworm]

I don't miss working at my Uncle's pizza place in the mid 60's.

60 hours a week - Paycheck $20.00

 

[monet61]

Milking. 0430.

 

[Mule88]

I dont miss 8 track tapes

 

[novalty]

Postage stamps you had to lick.

 

[gunlovingirl]

Having to take Paragoric when we were sick.

 

[max]

Being cold and having wet feet. I love Goretex.

 

[Trooperdan]

Having to take Paragoric when we were sick.

Are you kidding? I LOVED that stuff, tincture of opium, what's not to like?

 

[NKJ nut]

Party lines for the telephone would rate way on up there.

What some people today would call a " quaint old farmhouse". you had to stick rags around the windows in the winter and pile so many quilts and blankets on top of you at night to keep from freezing to death, that you felt like you were buried.

And in those days there was very little discretionary income among people in my area. You got what you had to have and little else.

Going a mile to pick up the mail. Got a mailbox right in front of my house now. It's nice.

 

[photocosmo]

And ANOTHER thing!

Peas and carrots, "Minute Steaks", broken Tortion bars, Measles, Mumps and Chicken Pox, "Dickeys", Commies, Fall-out Shelters, Race Riots, Boone's Farm wine, Lee Harvey Oswald, Vietnam, Richard Nixon...

 

[Checkman]

The televison show Barnaby Jones
Telephone Party Lines
The diet soda Tab
Double Knit Polyester

 

[otis24]

Don't miss the outhouse, not having running water. Unlike most people, we could only get one channel on our tv set. The "rich" kids got BOTH channels. The really rich got three.

Don't miss the "farm" too much. The farm was basically a big pile of rocks in NW Arkansas. Dad always had to have a hobby, but we did all of the work. Many times it involved a bunch of chickens that he couldn't take care of or feed. Eventually, they were all turned loose to roam the countryside. Then he would move on to goats or pigs. Again, did not have the facilities to properly take care of them. Watering them meant me and my brother carrying five gallon buckets of muddy pond water to dump in a mud hole for them to slurp up.
I gained a lot from living out in the country, hunting-shooting. What you see above wasn't part of it.