re: Things of “back in the day”

The Caterie fried cheese appetizer

Newspapers

Stealing dad porn magazines

Club houses in the woods to store and trade said magazines

Riding bikes all day long and into the night

Staying outside all day until past dark

The personal satisfaction of doing a chore for a few bucks walking a mile or so to the store and buying a cold Coke or RC and a zero bar or some strange candy bar and sitting on a log or outside the store just “shooting the shite” with your buddy or cousin, or whoever comes by.


Knowing people and the simple joy of just running into someone you know.

In person conversation.

Not knowing everything or being able to find out everything in two minutes on Google. We argued abourt where Peter Frampton said I want to think you or I want to frick you and what KISS really stood for (kids in service of Satan, knights in service of Satan etc ) etc for years. (And I don’t give a shite about what the actual answer is, the arguments were just fun.) We probably knew it was thank you but Wendell Tilley just got so worked up about it it was fun to fight him over it.


Being able to honestly take pride or be happy for a friend or relatives achievement or something. Everything is a competition now.

Morning cartoons

Never discussing politics or religion unless at Sunday school or church ever