“Remember When”

[Aunt Betty]

I remember my dad riding this bike over 50 years ago.

 

[Larry Welch]

When riding in the back of a pick up truck started about Easter and ended about Labor day. No shirt and no shoes was no problem. When you didn't have to ask someone to pull their pants up. When cash and a handshake were the rule not the exception. When you could take a trip to town and not have to hear what any other car had on their stereo.

 

[texduk3]

Holy Cross. Catechism?
Nun me, and ruler in the hall.
"You touch me with that ruler and you will meet God today" I said.
It actually worked

My Aunt was a nun in the Bronx, Sisters of Mercy.
She left the order after she got her Doctorate,
got tired of supporting the old non working nuns. she is like 92 now.

 

[texduk3]

I remember my dad riding this bike over 50 years ago.
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The American Pickers dude would love it

 

[Aunt Betty]

The American Pickers dude would love it

Yeah. Hoaders buried alive and pickers on the same lot.
Move that bus!
Lol

 

[KwickLabs]

I have avoided coming back to this thread for several reasons. The main one is "stuff"
has surfaced that I thought had been permanently locked away. One day I was out
roller skating by myself down the nearby sidewalk when this big girl came running
towards me screaming very loudly....several times "The war is over! The war is over!"

note: That was World War II.

I was about four years and had no idea what she was talking about.

Fast forward and few years. My Dad was a traveling salesman. Evidently, money was
short and we were on hard times. I had a paper route and would save the profits for
myself. I had saved up a whole bunch (about eighty bucks) and spent it on something that
nobody else had. It was one of the first portable, transistor radios. I was very careful
about when I listened to it. Then I kind of lost my mind and I showed to my Dad.....at
the wrong time.....his business had "tanked". Back then, "lickings" were normal events.

 

[toby]

Damn rich kids. We clipped a baseball card to our bikes so it hit the spokes to make it sound like an engine.

We were not rich but five years ago I got paid $4,000s for the baseball cards I did not put in my spokes. My Mom put them in a shoe box and I found them when she passed away. I still have a few and I don’t own a bike so I am safe.

 

[renoduckman]

Remember the moon landing?
Watched it with my dad when I was 6

 

[Aunt Betty]

Remember the moon landing?
Watched it with my dad when I was 6

Oh damn. My friends dad worked at NASA and if id saved all the stuff he gave me I could buy a ...who knows. Official NASA model kits. I played with them like toys.

I remember being outside the night Neil Armstrong landed on the moon..it was clear and I even knew about where to look. Had a moon map.
I was so into that. We all were.

 

[THEIRCOMMITED10]

Man I forgot about the soap in the mouth . That nasty orange dial soap that’s sat on the sink for months . I swear that soap was stronger than the Johnson Johnson covid 19 vaccine !!

Honest question ... When did it change when parents and teachers loose the right to discipline without risking going to prison ?