[unixfox]

In the good old days Airplanes had ashtrays!

I can remember being able to walk to the convenience store as a kid to buy mom her smokes.

Now days they would send in a SWAT team for such an act. Those born after 1980 don't realize just how many freedoms we have lost.

[elkfersupper]

I can remember being able to walk to the convenience store as a kid to buy mom her smokes.

I can remember being able to ride my bicycle to the drug store with a rifle on the handlebars, buy a pack of cigarettes, a Dr. Pepper or two, a Snickers bar or two and a box of .22 LR ammunition and then head off to a nearby playa lake to shoot at everything that moved and some things that didn't.

That would elicit a SWAT response these days.

[AlexW]

“Now days they would send in a SWAT team for such an act. Those born after 1980 don’t realize just how many freedoms we have lost.”
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You are exactly right, and it will only get worse.
Before I left (2005), I noticed that that the “good old boys on the beat”, had morphed into jack-booted thugs, even in small bedroom communities.