Originally Posted by angeleyes

Wow, this really puts how old I am in to perspective. Back in my Primary School Days, you could bring a toy gun to school and wear it like a cowboy, nobody thought twice or looked twice, it is rather sad how different things are now. They say we weren't properly diagnosing mental problems back then, but even so-- we didn't have school shootings every other week back then either. (I attended school in the 70's/80's). Back in the good ole days where your parents were allowed to beat your ass for doing something stupid and you never thought about doing it again. Now a day-- a kid has a scab on their knee and Child Services swoops in to remove them.

I dunno-- things just seemed so much LESS complicated back then.

- We didn't have computers and Atari consisted of moving a square around your TV screen so we got out there and played. We could eat 10 Twinkies because we burned them off riding our bikes 10 miles a day.

- We didn't have email/texting, so getting passed a note in school saying that "so and so" likes you, check, YES or NO if you like him back. LOL.... That was so exciting.... (NOT that I wish the internet away-- I'm just saying that things were very simple back then. The best years of my life.


I'm sometimes seriously grateful I was born when I was-- I have been able to see some amazing things (inventions that 20-somethings take for granted because they were born with the Internet, Cell Phones, etc.) Back when I was in High school, you were TOTALLY TUBULAR and RADICAL if you had call-waiting or 3-way calling. lol

I'm not terribly excited to see where the future will lead us. For the most part, I've seen enough and other than some amazing technology, I'd rather go back in time when Divorce wasn't a "Hobby", Watching (mentally ill) people smash their balls (The Jackass films) wasn't entertainment and we didn't help bring pedos into the "Internet Age". (The ONLY down-side to the web). I know, I'm trapped in a time warp when the Brady Bunch was a hot show.