You're right, these should be....
These are the good old days and I'm enjoying myself more than I ever did. And yes, we had terrible problems, every night on the news was something awful. But is it ok if I miss:
Kids walking, even at night without getting shot, raped or kidnapped. And there were plenty of places for them to play.
Cars without pollution controls and plenty of cheap gas.
Charging way too much for everything hadn't become an art form.
Going into a store, finding what I want and buying it right there. No 'We don't stock that' or 'We can order it for you, have it here in three days."
Actually enjoying most movies you went to see.
Better music.
Everybody not being entitled to a position.
Companies were not commodities to be traded and run into the ground to be traded again.
Sports weren't big business.
Telephones that were just....telephones. People had them in their houses because that's where most people were most of the time.
Having places to hunt and shoot that weren't encroaching on somebody else's property.
You could work on car engines without a special degree for THAT engine.
Schools were for learning.
Of course I could make a long list of things that are better today, but life was simpler. Maybe that's a job for another thread.
These are the good old days and I'm enjoying myself more than I ever did. And yes, we had terrible problems, every night on the news was something awful. But is it ok if I miss:
Kids walking, even at night without getting shot, raped or kidnapped. And there were plenty of places for them to play.
Cars without pollution controls and plenty of cheap gas.
Charging way too much for everything hadn't become an art form.
Going into a store, finding what I want and buying it right there. No 'We don't stock that' or 'We can order it for you, have it here in three days."
Actually enjoying most movies you went to see.
Better music.
Everybody not being entitled to a position.
Companies were not commodities to be traded and run into the ground to be traded again.
Sports weren't big business.
Telephones that were just....telephones. People had them in their houses because that's where most people were most of the time.
Having places to hunt and shoot that weren't encroaching on somebody else's property.
You could work on car engines without a special degree for THAT engine.
Schools were for learning.
Of course I could make a long list of things that are better today, but life was simpler. Maybe that's a job for another thread.
