Life in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s
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Try finding anything this anywhere nowadays. Lol
Back when I chewed gum. Lol
Lil bastards packed a hot cinnamon punch!
Lil bastards packed a hot cinnamon punch!
I was working with a new guy this morning. He's 19 and scarred to death of everything. Kod likely won't make it in this career field. Anyways, I said something to him that I thought was worth sharing.
"You weak ass kids these days never played on train tracks"
Something I'm guessing we all did as kids. Smashing penny's and other random shit. Things that built character and true respect for things and how they work. Things these kids nowadays never get a chance to experience. They play video games that just create another life with a click of a button. Then they get out in the real world and either think it's a joke or get scarred of everything. Sent my brain spinning....when was the last time you heard of a kid falling out of a tree and breaking his/her arm?
"You weak ass kids these days never played on train tracks"
Something I'm guessing we all did as kids. Smashing penny's and other random shit. Things that built character and true respect for things and how they work. Things these kids nowadays never get a chance to experience. They play video games that just create another life with a click of a button. Then they get out in the real world and either think it's a joke or get scarred of everything. Sent my brain spinning....when was the last time you heard of a kid falling out of a tree and breaking his/her arm?
Great point Dave.
Bro and I built a fort in barn, hay bale tunnels in hay loft, blanket tents and tunnels under furniture and coffee tables in the house, climbed apples trees with salt shaker in our pocket, rode bikes on a 6-7 mile loop around our house with plenty of gravel roadways down on the bottom along a crick, gigged frogs and suckers in that same crick, tossed football, played wiffleball, played slam dunk basketball, around the world and horse on our small driveway apron. All of these were done with reckless abandon and occasionally rendered a cut, bruise or scuffle but mom patched us up, dad broke us up or whipped our ass but we went back at it till dark then continued cuz that’s what flood lights are for.
Dang those summers blew by fast but we had fun and made great memories.
Bro and I built a fort in barn, hay bale tunnels in hay loft, blanket tents and tunnels under furniture and coffee tables in the house, climbed apples trees with salt shaker in our pocket, rode bikes on a 6-7 mile loop around our house with plenty of gravel roadways down on the bottom along a crick, gigged frogs and suckers in that same crick, tossed football, played wiffleball, played slam dunk basketball, around the world and horse on our small driveway apron. All of these were done with reckless abandon and occasionally rendered a cut, bruise or scuffle but mom patched us up, dad broke us up or whipped our ass but we went back at it till dark then continued cuz that’s what flood lights are for.
Dang those summers blew by fast but we had fun and made great memories.
Smawgunner2
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We lived with tracks in our back yard growing up. Yep, pulled grasshoppers legs of and sacrificed them on the tracks along with pennys and hot wheels lol. I grew to love Chessie System and it hooked me on model trains.
He’s been a little salty since the gas motor replaced the actual horsepower…..
I still use one to carve the turkey!! A little newer one tho!
Troof…..That and iodine cured all injuries!
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Last year I had a foot infection so I went to the doctor... I said years ago my Mom would put Mercurochrome on it and send me on my way... Doctor said what is Mercurochrome??? He never heard of it...
We called it methylaid......otherwise known as the Devil's juice....