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

[BuckeyeChuck]

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.

 

[Maximumbob54]

Whatever it is before we did before we had the internet. Or the earliest version of the internet. Like dial up. Yack. I don't miss that. Or green screen monitors. And Tandy computers. And I thought VCR's were such a rip off. Is there anything that didn't degrade the tape and eventually ruin the picture???

Edit: Oh, I forgot how people used to think you could microwave everything. Try to imagine sitting through a microwave Thanksgiving dinner. Barf. I did as a kid. I'm surprised I wasn't duct taped and beaten for what I said the food tasted like. Sorry Aunt Linda, but it was true.

 

[feralmerril]

I dont miss "not" haveing AC, pumping water, going to the outhouse especialy on winter nights, wearing tight wool suits to church, mesquitos and flys, school, working on my knees in the fields for about 50 cents a hour, haveing a fight every day or two in school, macarooni and cheese, tomato`s over toast, getting fish bones stuck in my throat, haveing to drink goat`s milk, getting OFF work at 4 am and haveing to shovel the car out to get home after a shift in a hot dirty foundry and being sweated up, sleeping upstairs in a UNHEATED bedroom when it`s -20 degrees below in wisconsin, putting on about 70 pounds of old coats to survive the night, crawling under our 150 year old house to jack it up level, 12 hour hot muggy nights stacking crates and unloading boxcars of 200 lb bags of surgar for green giant for $1.00 a hour, working in a foundry that was so dirty all that you could see was the whites of our eyes at the end of the shift, picking strawberries for I think a nickle a box, bunching radish`s for a half cent a bunch, digging all day around power poles 18"s deep, schoolwork, staying after school and recess`s sitting under the teachers nose for things she didnt like, Getting my mouth washed out with soap at school, standing in a corner wearing a dunce hat, dont miss kidney stones and goute either!

 

[MSgt G]

The President on TV - all three channels!

 

[yncrogers]

Being my dad's remote control - boy turn on channel 53!

 

[Erich]

Long-distance calls costing a fortune.

The ability that we have now to communicate (and find people with like interests) across distances for cheap/free is astonishing.

Racial bigotry. Violence against people due to their sexual preference. Nowadays, most people just don't give much of a hoot about what color someone is or whom they prefer to kiss - and I think the world is richer for it.

 

[ChuckS1]

I don't miss 0600 PT formations...

 

[Gun-runner]

I don't miss 0600 PT formations...

Even though I could use them!!!!

 

[26Ford]

Ruler across the knuckles in school.

 

[TAC]

AM radio, B&W TV, no AC in homes or cars, paying bills with money orders, personal checks, and having to mail them.

 

[bk43]

Racial bigotry. Violence against people due to their sexual preference. Nowadays, most people just don't give much of a hoot about what color someone is or whom they prefer to kiss - and I think the world is richer for it.

And the congregation said "Amen!"

Bob

 

[DeathGrip]

Some useless people I've worked with.It seems like there are many more like that than before.

I'd like to not miss the bullseye.

 

[yashua-p]

Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton as President!

Colored and White water fountains and restrooms

Air conditioning unusal in cars and homes.

Out door toilets(three bedrooms and a path)

 

[CW Spook]

No A/C, particularly in the car.
Corded telephones.
3-channel TV.
Slow-speed dentist drills.
Tobacco....no, maybe I still miss that.
Having to go to work in the morning.

 

[CJ]

Nothing comes to mind. I liked the good old days. The times were much more interesting and adventurous. Things were great unless you were a person of color.

 

[Pete99004]

I "don't miss" bias ply tires, 8 tracks, cassettes, or albums - drum brakes - analog TV and hard wired phones. I don't miss my ex wife.....or her parents!

 

[Class III]

The X GF!
Being an FFL and having ATF "Surprise" inspections.
Disco music, if it can be called music.

And the list goes on...

Class III

 

[Onomea]

Cod liver oil.

 

[blujax01]

I don't miss being a teen ager - way too much drama. Being "popular" was so important. And ridiculous.
I don't miss the specter of the Viet Nam Conflict. (I am grateful for those of you who served, including my Brother. You had a duty to perform).
I don't miss the Ford Maverick, AMC Matador, Pontiac Ventura, Dodge Aspen - the list of 70's eyesores goes on.
$1.50 per hour wages for flipping burgers at the BBF.

 

[JamesArthur60]

My ex-wife.