Mid Forties here. Maybe a few more?
1) Remember record albums and trying to find a needle that was worth a darn?
2) Any one else out there that used to burn leaves and sticks in the metal barrel in the fall?
3) Home made Halloween costumes? Or if you bought yours, it had the plastic mask with the skinny rubber band to hold it on?
4) Fishing from the bank with your dad and a Chock Full O' Nuts coffee can with dirt and worms?
5) Schwinn stingray bikes with the metal flake banana seat and hi-rise handle bars?
6) Remember putting a baseball card in those spokes?
7) Big Wheels and the GI Joe with the kung-fu grip?
8) Playing outside without fear of getting kidnapped? And only being allowed back in after mom unlocked the screen door?
9) The neighbors would let you climb their tree because it was better than yours. No fear of parent-to-parent litigation if you fell out of it 20 minutes later.
10) Remember when your friend's mom would paddle you for screwing up?
11) Candy cigarettes ring a bell?
12) Playing baseball/football in the street and having to stop every time a stupid car would drive by?
13) Sitting in the "way back" of the station wagon on family trips or being stuck between your brothers on the middle hump 'suck' seat. Seat belts? We didn't need no stinkin' seatbelts.
14) Scooby-Doo lunch boxes?
My 10 year old has never known:
Life without a remote control, ATMs, Cordless & cell phones, the internet, 7-11's, laptops, auto air conditioning, or debit cards.
