Posted on 05/08/2013 12:54:30 PM PDT by Daffynition
Cripes, don't you have anything nice to say about her?
Sticky space bar??? I don’t know.....
One bright sign of “today’s kids” (and a credit to my son and daughter-in-law): Last weekend the 2 year old grandaughter was saying “yes ma’am” with some frequency when asked questions. Once she sorts out her sirs and ma’ams, it will be better.
My parental units did not allow me to join the local/’hood BB gun “wars”. I was limited to shooting green army men with my (younger) age cohorts.
There was the same amount of sickos then. In those days the kids were running free in big packs. It was very hard to pull any shenanigans in the old days.
I bet she got a lot of dates in High school....
I grew up in the 50s and the author of the article is right. I lived in a Naval Housing Project in DC between the Naval Research Lab, Bolling AFB, Sailcroft Naval Weapons Plant and the new cut for I-195. Those were our “playgrounds” (you had to sneak in of course). I can’t imagine kids even coming close to that experience today but I loved it. Marbles, sword fights after watching Ivanhoe, long walks to school, board games, so much has been lost.
Those guys got to ride big firework mortars occasionally and hope that cheap parachute opened after explosion.
The world is a very different place today. One of the reasons that nobody seemed worried that you would disappear with some stranger, is because there were mothers, at home, keeping an eye out for what was happening around their home.
I think it has been more than a decade; but, when I was home with small kids we had a child abducted in our community. Now, she was dropped off at a local shopping mall; but, she had been molested. The police came to speak to the parents at my kid's school and one of the things the police said has stuck with me ever since.
The little girl walked part of the way home with a schoolmate; but, they parted company where she turned down one street and he went further on to his own street. The girl disappeared. When the police canvassed the neighborhood, what they found was that no one saw anything because no one was home. The moms were working, the dads were working, the kids were not home from school yet. There was no one to notice a stranger hanging around their street, no one to notice whether or not the girl had passed their house.
Now, as I said, the girl was not killed; but she was assaulted. When mothers left the home to have their "careers"; they left a large hole in the community in small, but important, ways.
You've been around here long enough to know that you're doomed. That's one for the FReeper Hall of Infamy!!
I remember starting up construction bulldozers and having “issues” with shutting them off (would not stall - had to find the kill switch).
Not to mention job competition and the affect on that market.
That is a an astute observation. Says a lot about how certain changes are not always for the better that it certainly tickles the fancy of some ideologues.
Man, you were sissies. We used to have our BB gun fights without any protective padding, helmets, etc.
Damn those things hurt if you got hit in the head or where the skin was thin over bone.
Makes me glad I was a kid in the 50’s, although I find myself out-of-place in the world today. We were taught to respect our elders. My mother told us we were supposed to say hello to older people first. Not wait for them to speak to us first. We were told not to ask for seconds when eating at someone else’s house. We were taught to be considerate of other people. When it came to making fun of someone, we were told to put ourselves in that person’s shoes. How would we feel if it was said to us. The Golden Rule was taught in school: Treat others as you would have them treat you. Somewhere along the line, all of that was forgotten, and we’ve turned into a world of self-centered individuals.
My SIL picks his nose and eats his buggers.
Maybe we are related thu marrage?
Model rockets are on Bammy’s kill list.
Heheh - I never tried that. I always wondered however that my 20 mm collection might have a live round but I was assured it didn’t. It looked cool though to have 10 of those in a link-belt strapped to my bike. Today, that would be a capital offense.
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