Humble tiger wrote: .....I don't > think we had an answering machine until the '90's :)
We had a party line for much of my adolescence. It was quite fun to listen in sometimes although not if mama caught me. .. > As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air > bags. Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was > always a special treat. And even allowed to stand up behind the cab and go down the highway without repercussions. The wind in our faces, it felt so fine. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles Wasn't that grand? > We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. And we even relieved ourselves in the field when no one was around. Write about horrors. > We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as > we were back when the streetlights came on. My mama would command us to get out of the house after breakfast and not return until it was time for lunch. After lunch, until supper. lol Remember accidents? The good ole days. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X Boxes, video games > at all,99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, > personal cellular phones, Personal Computers, internet chat rooms > ... we had friends. We only picked up 2 stations and they were cloudy. That is when my mom would allow us to turn the set on, which wasn't often. The last of six, my older siblings would often exclude me. I invented all sorts of games to amuse myself and with very little to work with. Johnson grass could be manipulated to make a great tribe of Indians, complete with headresses. The corncobs and the silk atop their heads could do the same. Different antbeds with different kinds of ants could also make for some great indian wars. . The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a > law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law, imagine > that! And with the schoolteachers when we were paddled at school. It was a sure bet that if I got it at school, the one that I got when I arrived home was worse. Much. And on Halloween, we were just let out of the car to run amok and gather as much candy as possible, without any fear at all. No one ever went with us. Those were the days. > Forgive me if it's outta place here. > WtS I enjoyed it immensely but better remember to put njc on it or face the wrath of the joni onlies and the netiquette people. ' mack
