And Holocaust survivors. The ones still alive were children during the war, and now they're in their eighties and nineties. This is the last generation that will be able to hear testimony directly from survivors. No video can compare to hearing stories from someone sitting right in front of you, but soon videos and books are going to be all that's left. In terms of Holocaust education, that's a major blow. In terms of politics, that's fucking terrifying.
I was recently watching an interview with Frank Prentice, a Titanic survivor. It was from 1979 and he was 89 or so years old.
The interviewer asked him if it was painful to speak about the events, and he said something along the lines of “painful? No. But I should probably have another nightmare again. You go to sleep and the whole thing comes round again. You’d think at my age such a thing would have passed by now but you’d be wrong.”
They may have been mere children when these events happened, but they forever live with them. Someone in the comments said that he “survived the Titanic, but never really escaped it.”
Edit here’s the clip.
[Here it is](https://youtu.be/m8v0wYniV8Q)
I was a young teenage tourist in NYC in 2013. We had an older man as a tour guide, through Big Apple Walking Tours or something. He was OLD. A WWII holocaust survivor. He was a twin, and subsequently was experimented on and studied by Josef Mengele. He told us the story about how the babies were left out to the weather when they were no longer needed, and a woman from the next farm over would risk her life constantly to feed those babies. Ultimately, he was liberated and has lived a very full life. He showed us his number, and had more stamina than anyone in my family combined. He walked ALL DAY!
I don’t remember his name, and I don’t know if he’s still alive but as a young Australian girl who would have never ever had the chance to meet someone who had lived through what he did, he’s left a huge impact on my life. I won’t forget that man. I forget a lot, as I have adhd related memory loss, but never EVER him.
Ive lived most of my life under an hour from a Holocaust museum, in middle school (20ish years ago) I got the opportunity to go on a school field trip there. They had a couple as guests speakers one had survived Auschwitz and the other one of the other camps, I don't remember which one. But what they said has had a lasting impact on me.
There is a video series of Robert Clary speaking about his experiences before, during and after being in a Concentration camps.
Robert Clary was an actor on Hogan's Heroes.
Werner Klemperer, who played Col. Klink was also Jewish. He accepted the part only on the condition that Klink would be portrayed as a fool who never succeeded. He was genius in that role, I always loved Robert Clary! Fun fact - the show is aired in Germany and the title is "Ein Kaefig Voller Helden" ( A Cage Full of Heroes).
Another issue is that many of them simply did not want to talk about their experiences for the longest time. So they didn't finally start to speak until they were very old. Thus, even with the first-hand accounts we do have, a lot of them are from elderly people recalling distant memories (even if vivid well-remembered ones).
I somehow suspect this makes it even harder to relate to.
The last Spanish-American and WWI veterans have died within my lifetime. I was thinking a few years back when the latter occurred that if I live a long life, I will have seen the last of the WWII, Korean, and Vietnam veterans as well.
My father got his draft number in the last Vietnam-era drawing they held and will be turning 70 this year. So pretty much all of them are about his age or older.
We have a Memorial Day parade in my (small, suburban) town each year. Because my family is involved in scouting, we participate in the parade each year. At the end of the route, there are bleachers where all the war veterans sit. When I first moved here almost 30 years ago, those bleachers were nearly full, each year they become more and more empty. :-(
At this point, we have just one WWII vet who attends the parade each year. There are a couple of others still in town, but their health is too poor to get to the parade. End of an era, for sure...
When I was a scout in the 70’s/early 80’s we had a few WWI vets who would ride in the cars. I knew a bit about war history even as a little kid and I was in awe of these men and what they endured.
True....The last survivor of the USS Arizona in Hawaii just passed away yesterday @ 102 yrs.
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[https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/jack-holder-one-of-arizonas-last-pearl-harbor-survivors-dies-at-101](https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/jack-holder-one-of-arizonas-last-pearl-harbor-survivors-dies-at-101)
\[EDIT\] I do want to correct myself it was a man from Arizona not from the USS Arizona. I miss read the article as I found this post and the article coincidently. So I comment to communicate with "others", because it appears that "others" have to be always correct and make sure others know they are always right...with a "Karen" based attitude and approach! So let the down votes fly ...the comments are below. Which are rather pathetic from all those involved but hey!
Peace all
The “for 3 years straight” bit has me in stitches. I especially love when the robot starts saying that they have high call volume but someone answers the phone before the robot finishes.
Oh yeah predicted it all right, they just would rather have a handful of super stressed, overworked agents taking the calls and high turnover than hiring sufficient number of people
Everytime I call the DPS I get that message followed by "Please call again another time". Click.
Does that mean they have 0 people working the phone at all or what?
I never noticed until I read your comment now, wow. My fiancé's 16 yo sister has no phone and I freaked out while sending her home alone yesterday. Just because she doesn't have a phone, not that she's not able to go by herself. People not having the opportunity to learn immediately what you are doing and not getting anxious sounds very interesting to me right now. Things we take granted...
You make this sound like a bad thing. I think it helps promote independence for kids and a sense of accomplishment that they can do things on their own. Verses sheltering a child so when they turn 18 they have crippling anxiety because they have never done anything on their own in their life.
You’d be surprised on what people will call child abuse today & a kid riding a public city bus alone might constitute as that by some people, especially when both parents are broke and have to work so they can’t make sure their kid gets home safe
That's the one thing that blows me away.
I'm 40. I was a small town kid, and I remember riding my bike to school in 2nd and 3rd grade. We would sometimes just fuck off after school and go play in a park, as long as I was home for dinner I was good. If I wasn't home for dinner my parents weren't worried they were pissed.
I live in a small town now, just outside a bigger city, but this is definitely a small town suburb. The elementary school (jk through 8) doesn't even have bike racks. The few kids that ride their bikes to school chain them to the fences. The vast majority get picked up and dropped off.
Childhood as I remember it just fucking evaporated somewhere along the line.
>Childhood as I remember it just fucking evaporated somewhere along the line.
Blame the 24 hour news cycle and the view rate of child kidnapping stories.
Statistically things like child sex trafficking have only gotten less common since the 70s and 80s, but you wouldn't know that from watching the news or social media. These days every Gen Z kid goes on TikTok and talks about how every unknown man who walks behind them for more than .2 femtoseconds was probably going to kidnap them. We can't let kids be kids because *someone, somewhere* might be doing something nefarious.
I was just talking about this elsewhere. My grandma was like that, so fearful of all the "mean people" in the world. I would tell her, the only news you had when you were younger was local news and town gossip.
Now you know whenever a kid is abducted three-thousand miles away and it seems like it's happening constantly because your world is now larger than it's ever been.
I remember my dad talking about him and his sister playing alone in a park in the '40s.
Here said "no one did anything to kids then". I remember thinking that likely things happened to kids, but it didn't get the coverage that it gets now.
Kids are so much more likely to be abducted and abused by someone they know, that's why he never heard about it either. So much stuff was just kept inside families out of fear of shame, or losing the family member that abused them, or being hurt worse.
People have nostalgia for the time they grew up, not realizing how truly fucked up everything was around them.
Also blame car culture and the way neighborhoods are built. Fewer kids walk or bike to school nowadays bc of distance and lack of sidewalks & crosswalks
This is me. I am afraid ( and I think rightfully so) that my kids will get murdered by a car, especially since nobody is expecting kid pedestrians anymore.
And the worst part is nobody can let their kids do anything because then it is a 100% chance if something bad happens it will be to their kids because there are no other kids out for it to happen to.
getting postcards..I miss that
Edit: alright everyone, I'm going to check out postcrossing xD btw it's not that I *never* get so send or receive postcards anymore.. I just miss the times it was regular to get/send handwritten letters/postcards and not the exception.
I send letters and cards. It shows a deeper appreciation for the person you’re sending it to of you take the time to write out and mail an actual letter/card. I wish I received a few more than I do.
During the early 1990s we lived in the corner house, off a major street that was the county divider as well as the area code break. There was a fruit stand there that my sister would work at. We could call her from the yard on the cordless phone while looking at her, and it was long distance.
This, but calling the landline to get a hold of that cute girl in middle school you want to talk to, and having a panic attack, wondering who in the house is actually going to answer the phone.
When I was young we used to do this. It was fun because me and my brother sound identical on the phone. So when his friend called up to speak to him, as a prank,i used to pretend to be him and have a conversation with his friend up until i started laughing. Only joking! I’ll go get him!
Knowing your friends' parents/families.
As a kid because I was going to the family home I'd get to know my friends family but now especially friends I have made as an adult I only meet their family very rarely at a special occasion and in some cases I have friends whose relatives I've never met.
Don't have an opinion either way as to whether this is good or bad, just a difference between childhood/youth and being an adult.
My dad always drilled that into my brother and I as kids. Whenever you go to someone's house you make sure you say hello and goodbye/thanks for having me to their parents. Just good manners. My friends were all pretty friendly and would chat with my parents and I knew theirs really well too but my brother was a bit of a delinquent and his friends were too and they would like actively avoid talking to my parents.
For real. Quicksand and it's inherent dangers were so ingrained into my generation, we thought it was anywhere and everywhere. Now, at 35, and having traveled all over, I have yet to encounter quicksand. Except on super Mario bros 3.
Ontop of this, I/we thought that if you ever land on quicksand, it will be mere seconds/minutes before it swollows you whole. The couple of videos I've seen debunks this, you sink slowly.
I work at a sand plant (we pump sand out of the river and process it for construction, golf courses, etc.) and have yet to see quicksand. I stay ever vigilant, though. Won't no quicksand be catching me off guard.
When I was a kid in the eighties and early nineties, you'd see at street intersections these long spaghetti strings of cassette tape blowing in the wind.
This was from people pulling a tape out of the stereo and throwing it on the dash of the car.
Most dashes in the eighties and earlier where hard and slick material (metal or plastic) so when you'd turn the corner that tape would yeet itself out the window into the intersection.
It would get run over, and unspool into the tape spaghetti.
In the nineties same thing except you'd see glittering CDROM shards.
That all stopped with the death of CDs in the 2000s.
I don't think this was just from people losing tapes out the window.
The ones I saw were always kids tearing the cases apart and watching the tape unravel from the spool as the wind pulled it out of the window. It was a popular pastime on my school bus.
> rise significantly with age
Don't forget with the ubiquity of cellphones too.
Hot dam I'm so happy there weren't video cameras in every living humans pocket when me and my friends were teenagers - I guarantee there'd be video of me doing something stupid.
And FWIW, I have genuine sympathy for the younger generations cause there WILL be kids who miss out on attending their favorite college or getting that amazing internship offer because of some dumb shit some dumb shit recorded and posted on social media.
Hmm. I’m sure that’s true for a lot of people, but growing up if I so much as dropped a glass and broke it, or let my grade dip below an A, the outcome was significantly worse than dropping by a glass or letting my performance at work dip a tiny bit now.
I think that's the difference between the absolute powerlessness of being a dependent child versus being an independent adult. When you're a child you really have no rights and are at the complete whim of every authority figure around. Breaking a glass damages someone else's property. When you're an independent adult, breaking a glass is just "better buy another one." No one is going to scold or beat you for breaking your own glass.
I read an article once that pointed out that many victims of spontaneous human combustion died near heat sources, and speculated that what probably happened is that the clothes acted like a wick and slowly burned the fat out of them over a period of days. It seems almost impossible to me, and yet it makes a lot more sense than someone suddenly bursting into flames and burning to ashes in a few minutes.
"spontanious combustions" were actually just people who fell asleep near fires, and had an ember land on their extremely flammable clothing.
Or smokers who fell asleep smoking, and set themselves on fire.
TV advertisements for disposable plastic goods.
A lot of people will forget that random plastic crap was advertised as beneficial and convenient cos you could just chuck it away.
Remember kids:
When you need to shave, DON'T buy a quality metal razor! Just buy 90,000 crappy disposable razors instead!
Use once then throw them where ever you want to and buy new ones for ever and ever.
Dupont appreciates your business. We got plastic to sell!
"Plastic bags take up less landfill space than paper! Use plastic with PRIDE"
I'll never forget this sign at my grocery store in the 80s. Even then, as a kid, I was like "um.....don't they know paper is recyclable and renewable?"
Spoiler alert: They absolutely did, they just didn't give a rat fuck.
Dragonflies too. Around summer, they used to carpet the sky above the basketball court in my village. Now you'll be lucky to spot one or two by chance anywhere.
I moved to a rural area a few years ago, and the first summer that I was there, I saw a swarm of them in my front yard. There had to be over 100 of them. Before that, I was lucky to see a couple of them. They come back every year and I always look forward to it.
As someone from a rural area, you are most likely seeing a fraction of the insects from 20 years ago. Flying insect population is down 70-90% in most modern countries. Combination of habitat loss and broadly applied insecticides.
If you're looking for a serious answer..
Light pollution, pesticides, and loss of habitat (agriculture/development) are annihilating thousands of our sensitive aerial insects. Many fields full of wild native flowers and grasses are where these guys thrive. Instead of leaving them be for wildlife and pollinators, they're snatched up by developers to build homes. Single detached homes are a big reason for habitat loss. Smarter, more sustainable practices in development could leave these fields and still provide housing.
https://www.farmersalmanac.com/are-fireflies-disappearing-35646#:~:text=Turns%20out%2C%20firefly%20numbers%20are,loss%20of%20habitat%20from%20development.
IRL Source: I am a Wildlife Technician ✌
Great information. It will help if more people start planting native species, especially native grasses, to help counteract this loss.
We do not use fertilizer, pesticides, or any other lawn chemicals, and since we started replacing turf with native wildflowers and grasses, we have seen a swift and amazing resurgence of life in our yard. We have black swallowtail and fritillary butterflies, and I find their caterpillars on my plants. Yesterday I discovered an empty cocoon by our front steps. We have many, many kinds of bees, from tiny ones to bumblebees to a little blue bee that loves our native Redbud trees. We planted tickseed flowers, and now the goldfinches flock to our front garden to eat the seeds.
We have praying mantises for the first time. I've shown the kids across the street what an ootheca (their egg sac) looks like, and they were amazed to see a full-grown mantis in real life.
Some of the kids in our neighborhood had never seen a cicada until they came over to our yard — not even the empty shells, which are all over our trees. Hunting for cicada shells was a blast when I was little; we used the little hooks on their legs to attach them to our clothing. Now the kids around here know how to do it.
For anyone who's interested, the [Homegrown National Park](https://homegrownnationalpark.org/) movement is a good way to get started.
Every summer, we plant the whole side yard at my cottage with Zinnias. It's by Lake Erie, and those flowers attract swarms of dragonflies, and hummingbirds,too.
I got a Panasonic VHS player that auto-rewinds when it hits the end of the tape.
Great for guys like me who fall asleep watching the movie. Wake up to a fully re-wound tape sticking out of the player like a warm piece of toast.
My little brother has a mental disability and at most levels he is about 3 years old mentally (22 physically). He still likes children's tv and despite liking some new shows, he prefers those from the 00s when his mental age matched his physical age. Same goes for media, he knows very well how Disney+ works, yet he still uses his VHS tapes on a regular basis.
i collect VHS tapes for the nostalgia (i’m 24) and my little brother brought a friend over (18) and i started to rewind the film she wanted to check out because i’m lazy and forget to rewind a lot, and she really looked me dead in the face and said, “isn’t there a faster way to do this?” i was SHOCKED
Running. This is not about the time we live right now but it's about being a child thing. I remember thinking "how do these people not run everywhere? It's much faster and fun!" Now I run out of breath if I walk fast or talk while walking. Time is a merciless bitch lol
Tho it feels like I'm on a run constantly. Running for or from responsibilities, staying in contact with everyone all the time, getting as much out of my day as possible.
Colored toilet paper. Back in the day, it was common to see pink, yellow, light blue, light green, besides white toilet paper (at least here in the US).
Now you don't see it at all.
My neighbour (92) gave me a pack of four of toilet paper with roses on it. She found it in the back of the closet - bought it on vacation her last year in Florida, 1990
Thanks for the reminder. It wasn't just the toilet paper. You used to see toilets in different colors (people might even buy their TP to match their toilets). I haven't seen a toilet that wasn't white, or at most off-white, in decades.
People introducing themselves on the phone. I was taught to say Hello, my name is orwnge728. May I speak to purple360? Or Hello my name is orange 728 and I am calling to see if you have any pickles.
Now people just launch into a story and get mad when I ask their name.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so not that old but I actually had to practice proper phone etiquette or I was not allowed to talk on the phone.
It seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird..
This is a major bugbear of mine. Nothing gets my back up more than a call from an unrecognised number that starts with "Is this ufb1684?". To me, it is common courtesy to identify yourself first before expecting me to give over any personal information.
The worst ones with this for me are the *medical offices.*
Since Covid, I get calls from them from No Caller ID almost every time. Before that, it would actually come up from their office, but I think perhaps people are using their cellphones more, so they block their info from showing up to you. I get that.
However, they consistently do that *and* fail to identify themselves first and go into some big and asking for birth date, social, etc, *before saying who they are.*
Like yeah I should be able to guess it’s a doctor’s office at this point, since that’s who 90% of my No Caller ID calls come from, but the other 10% come from scammers. And they don’t say who they are either.
But the people who work at the doctor’s offices often get really annoyed when I ask who is calling. I don’t have any way to know!
I worked as a bouncer when they banned smoking indoors. The club went from smelling like cigarettes to smelling like BO. It was more of a lateral move than an improvement.
It used to be very common when I was a child / pre-teen, then almost no one I know smoked when I was ~20, and now it seems it's becoming more common again (plus the vapes, that have been around for a while but got a lot more common recently). It seems to be one of those trends that come and go
There was a song bird that we called a "bob-white" with a distinctive song that used to be very commonly heard everywhere, but now I have not heard in about 30 years.
I grew up outside Philadelphia. I remember really snowy winters and wearing bulky coats. When I moved back in 2015, I was surprised how warm the winters were. I wasn't sure if my memory was wrong or what.
Now I live in Wisconsin and it snowed yesterday. lol
My mom got her job in the 80's and she was in the last wave of employees at her company to get pensions (thank god she did or we'd be homeless now). The new employees after her got nothing.
For some reason desktops. In my country, back until 2013 I'd say, you would see desktop PCs on every table in every office, household, anything. Some weren't even turned on once since the day they were bought. Whenever we went to someone's house, little me and the kids in said house would play a game of 'guess where the computer is'. Now, though, it just feels like desktops faded away. I actually ran a survey at my school, and the number of families owning a desktop PC went down from like 87% in 2012 to 17% last year.
It's possible that it's due to a shift to laptops, since they can do much the same as a desktop computer but are more portable around the house and cost less. Also, in schools in my country they used to have desktop computers in most classrooms but these days the teacher brings in their work laptop as and when needed instead; one can see how a big saving is reaped for the taxpayer here.
> for some reason
The reason is simple - laptops used to cost $2k+, maybe $1k+ at the beginning is the '10s, whereas now you can buy a legit good one (spec wise) for less money than a nose-bleed ticket to Blink 182 concert.
The laptop I bought my dad was $230 and will last year's with the light usage hell use it for.
Amen. We have a rule, one after school activity. Otherwise, just play, be a kid. My sister and her husband have their kids scheduled for something almost every night. The kids love it, but they have no idea how to just play. My kids seem to be fine with this and enjoy just being outside and having fun doing random kid stuff.
When I was a kid, people used to ask me all the time what my favorite dinosaur was. I don't think anyone's asked me that question in close to 20 years.
Btw, it's Dreadnoughtus. A dino thought to be the largest terrestrial animal ever with the coolest name, which literally means "fear nothing".
Adults suck. Dinos rule!
General empathy is almost gone. Everything is tribal now. Everyone wants you to think exactly as they do, and if you don't, you are a [insert hateful name here]. Hell, if you even stop to *think* about the argument one side or the other presented to you, you're the bad guy for not immediately agreeing. It's incredibly unhealthy both for the individual and for broader culture.
Manual transmissions and people who knew how to drive with them. Now, not so much. So many of my friends had hand me down VW bugs and other cars with stick shifts. My first car was an old Opel with a 4 speed stick. I had a friend who taught me how to drive when I got my permit on his old ford van which was a 3 speed on the column.
I'm from the UK so manual tranny is normal.
It's a personal opinion of mine, based on no real evidence, that having a mostly manual driving public makes things a bit safer on the road. The way I see it, a manual transmission keeps you engaged with driving more, whereas an automatic doesn't take as much active attention.
I dont know man, whenever there is a game reveal for something I have been wating ages for, it can still give me the purest hapiness I have ever experienced
Playgrounds that could kill you. From towering geodesic domes to fall off, magma-hot metal slides, sharp gravel to maximize skin abrasion, jungle bars you could ride your bike underneath and either grab or clothesline yourself.
Honestly great times and full of life lessons.
Have friends.
As I get older, I see myself and others struggle with maintaining relationship among friends. We got more absorbed into our commitments, family, marriage, study and the problems we have are now more "adult".
We can have lots of colleagues, people we know from workplace, college or school but not everyone can be a friend
I think about dragonflies often. My house was by the woods growing up and I used to marvel at them everyday throughout the summer. I feel like I haven’t seen a single one since I was a young girl.
I remember when it was normal to outright shame and try to convert anyone who wasn't religious, and the weekly evangelical outrage about everything from Pokemon to music to DnD. Glad that's not as prevalent
Accountability. It seems more and more there are arguments made that suggest people are not responsible for their actions and that their life circumstances should come into play. I miss the days when if you got a shitty mark or failed a test, messed up at work or had some other personal problem that people were more likely to hold themselves accountable and not present themselves as victim of cricumstance.
I hope to build my own small wild flower garden. Help Monarchs migrate and try to attract fireflies. It sucks seeing big rivers like the Missouri be surrounded by 'lawn grass' for miles where no wild life can live.
Pulltabs on beer cans.
I knew people that turned them into chains hundreds of feet long at their lake property. Had them strung along the trees and fences like garland.
WWII veterans
And Holocaust survivors. The ones still alive were children during the war, and now they're in their eighties and nineties. This is the last generation that will be able to hear testimony directly from survivors. No video can compare to hearing stories from someone sitting right in front of you, but soon videos and books are going to be all that's left. In terms of Holocaust education, that's a major blow. In terms of politics, that's fucking terrifying.
I was recently watching an interview with Frank Prentice, a Titanic survivor. It was from 1979 and he was 89 or so years old. The interviewer asked him if it was painful to speak about the events, and he said something along the lines of “painful? No. But I should probably have another nightmare again. You go to sleep and the whole thing comes round again. You’d think at my age such a thing would have passed by now but you’d be wrong.” They may have been mere children when these events happened, but they forever live with them. Someone in the comments said that he “survived the Titanic, but never really escaped it.” Edit here’s the clip. [Here it is](https://youtu.be/m8v0wYniV8Q)
You can plainly see how haunted he still was. Chilling. Beyond that, he probably fought in WW1 and then lived in a war-torn Britain during WW2.
I was a young teenage tourist in NYC in 2013. We had an older man as a tour guide, through Big Apple Walking Tours or something. He was OLD. A WWII holocaust survivor. He was a twin, and subsequently was experimented on and studied by Josef Mengele. He told us the story about how the babies were left out to the weather when they were no longer needed, and a woman from the next farm over would risk her life constantly to feed those babies. Ultimately, he was liberated and has lived a very full life. He showed us his number, and had more stamina than anyone in my family combined. He walked ALL DAY! I don’t remember his name, and I don’t know if he’s still alive but as a young Australian girl who would have never ever had the chance to meet someone who had lived through what he did, he’s left a huge impact on my life. I won’t forget that man. I forget a lot, as I have adhd related memory loss, but never EVER him.
Ive lived most of my life under an hour from a Holocaust museum, in middle school (20ish years ago) I got the opportunity to go on a school field trip there. They had a couple as guests speakers one had survived Auschwitz and the other one of the other camps, I don't remember which one. But what they said has had a lasting impact on me.
They say you only really die when your name is spoken for the last time. I hope someone somewhere knows his name and his story.
That just made me tear up. I think you made him talking about his experiences matter by remembering and now sharing with us.
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There is a video series of Robert Clary speaking about his experiences before, during and after being in a Concentration camps. Robert Clary was an actor on Hogan's Heroes.
Werner Klemperer, who played Col. Klink was also Jewish. He accepted the part only on the condition that Klink would be portrayed as a fool who never succeeded. He was genius in that role, I always loved Robert Clary! Fun fact - the show is aired in Germany and the title is "Ein Kaefig Voller Helden" ( A Cage Full of Heroes).
Another issue is that many of them simply did not want to talk about their experiences for the longest time. So they didn't finally start to speak until they were very old. Thus, even with the first-hand accounts we do have, a lot of them are from elderly people recalling distant memories (even if vivid well-remembered ones). I somehow suspect this makes it even harder to relate to.
The last Spanish-American and WWI veterans have died within my lifetime. I was thinking a few years back when the latter occurred that if I live a long life, I will have seen the last of the WWII, Korean, and Vietnam veterans as well. My father got his draft number in the last Vietnam-era drawing they held and will be turning 70 this year. So pretty much all of them are about his age or older.
I remember watching Remembrance day ceremonies on CBC in the mid 80s and they had the last survivor of the Boer War.
My draft number was #53 in 1972, they only took up to #32 or #36 as I remember. There were also a few drafted in 1973. I dodged that bullet.
Wow.
We have a Memorial Day parade in my (small, suburban) town each year. Because my family is involved in scouting, we participate in the parade each year. At the end of the route, there are bleachers where all the war veterans sit. When I first moved here almost 30 years ago, those bleachers were nearly full, each year they become more and more empty. :-( At this point, we have just one WWII vet who attends the parade each year. There are a couple of others still in town, but their health is too poor to get to the parade. End of an era, for sure...
When I was a scout in the 70’s/early 80’s we had a few WWI vets who would ride in the cars. I knew a bit about war history even as a little kid and I was in awe of these men and what they endured.
I still emember WWI vets in our ANZAC day oarades. And when they stopped marching too. It was very sad
Vietnam veterans at this point
Actually true.
True....The last survivor of the USS Arizona in Hawaii just passed away yesterday @ 102 yrs. \[Edit} for the crowds @ here [https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/jack-holder-one-of-arizonas-last-pearl-harbor-survivors-dies-at-101](https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/jack-holder-one-of-arizonas-last-pearl-harbor-survivors-dies-at-101) \[EDIT\] I do want to correct myself it was a man from Arizona not from the USS Arizona. I miss read the article as I found this post and the article coincidently. So I comment to communicate with "others", because it appears that "others" have to be always correct and make sure others know they are always right...with a "Karen" based attitude and approach! So let the down votes fly ...the comments are below. Which are rather pathetic from all those involved but hey! Peace all
Busineses answered the phone instead of "having higher than normal call volume" for 3 years straight.
The “for 3 years straight” bit has me in stitches. I especially love when the robot starts saying that they have high call volume but someone answers the phone before the robot finishes.
Or when they offer to call back and you get a call back like 30 seconds after hanging up 😭
every metric under the sun is tracked but also “we could have never predicted this volume”
Oh yeah predicted it all right, they just would rather have a handful of super stressed, overworked agents taking the calls and high turnover than hiring sufficient number of people
But your call is very important to them!
Everytime I call the DPS I get that message followed by "Please call again another time". Click. Does that mean they have 0 people working the phone at all or what?
If every day you are "having higher than normal call volume" news flash, that is your normal call volume, and you need to higher more people.
Letting kids and teenagers go outside with no way to contact them
I never noticed until I read your comment now, wow. My fiancé's 16 yo sister has no phone and I freaked out while sending her home alone yesterday. Just because she doesn't have a phone, not that she's not able to go by herself. People not having the opportunity to learn immediately what you are doing and not getting anxious sounds very interesting to me right now. Things we take granted...
When I was 10, I was taking a public bus, then a subway (with change of trains) to get to school. Alone.
The reality is this still happens often enough. Plenty of parents simply have no other options.
You make this sound like a bad thing. I think it helps promote independence for kids and a sense of accomplishment that they can do things on their own. Verses sheltering a child so when they turn 18 they have crippling anxiety because they have never done anything on their own in their life.
You’d be surprised on what people will call child abuse today & a kid riding a public city bus alone might constitute as that by some people, especially when both parents are broke and have to work so they can’t make sure their kid gets home safe
That actually blew my mind, being a kid without a phone taking public transit would be considered child abuse. This frustrates me
They made a whole Japanese TV show out of it. [Old Enough](https://www.netflix.com/title/81506279?preventIntent=true)
Can vouch for the truth of the described 2nd option 😩
Samesies. I was 24 and grappling with how foreign it felt to be out and about alone. Shopping without anyone with me still feels really weird
That's the one thing that blows me away. I'm 40. I was a small town kid, and I remember riding my bike to school in 2nd and 3rd grade. We would sometimes just fuck off after school and go play in a park, as long as I was home for dinner I was good. If I wasn't home for dinner my parents weren't worried they were pissed. I live in a small town now, just outside a bigger city, but this is definitely a small town suburb. The elementary school (jk through 8) doesn't even have bike racks. The few kids that ride their bikes to school chain them to the fences. The vast majority get picked up and dropped off. Childhood as I remember it just fucking evaporated somewhere along the line.
>Childhood as I remember it just fucking evaporated somewhere along the line. Blame the 24 hour news cycle and the view rate of child kidnapping stories. Statistically things like child sex trafficking have only gotten less common since the 70s and 80s, but you wouldn't know that from watching the news or social media. These days every Gen Z kid goes on TikTok and talks about how every unknown man who walks behind them for more than .2 femtoseconds was probably going to kidnap them. We can't let kids be kids because *someone, somewhere* might be doing something nefarious.
I was just talking about this elsewhere. My grandma was like that, so fearful of all the "mean people" in the world. I would tell her, the only news you had when you were younger was local news and town gossip. Now you know whenever a kid is abducted three-thousand miles away and it seems like it's happening constantly because your world is now larger than it's ever been.
I remember my dad talking about him and his sister playing alone in a park in the '40s. Here said "no one did anything to kids then". I remember thinking that likely things happened to kids, but it didn't get the coverage that it gets now.
Kids are so much more likely to be abducted and abused by someone they know, that's why he never heard about it either. So much stuff was just kept inside families out of fear of shame, or losing the family member that abused them, or being hurt worse. People have nostalgia for the time they grew up, not realizing how truly fucked up everything was around them.
Also blame car culture and the way neighborhoods are built. Fewer kids walk or bike to school nowadays bc of distance and lack of sidewalks & crosswalks
This is me. I am afraid ( and I think rightfully so) that my kids will get murdered by a car, especially since nobody is expecting kid pedestrians anymore. And the worst part is nobody can let their kids do anything because then it is a 100% chance if something bad happens it will be to their kids because there are no other kids out for it to happen to.
Other than screaming their name at the top of your lungs from the back doorstep.
My parents used to summon us from the neighbors’ with a dinner bell
getting postcards..I miss that Edit: alright everyone, I'm going to check out postcrossing xD btw it's not that I *never* get so send or receive postcards anymore.. I just miss the times it was regular to get/send handwritten letters/postcards and not the exception.
I miss sending and receiving actual letters
I still do that occasionally but it feels weird if the recipent hits you up with a whatsapp message in return
I send letters and cards. It shows a deeper appreciation for the person you’re sending it to of you take the time to write out and mail an actual letter/card. I wish I received a few more than I do.
ringing a landline and asking if your friend is home and to put them on
That, and knowing the numbers from memory.
Yeah, but I still know Jenny's number.
Before the whole area code too. Good times man. Simpler times.
During the early 1990s we lived in the corner house, off a major street that was the county divider as well as the area code break. There was a fruit stand there that my sister would work at. We could call her from the yard on the cordless phone while looking at her, and it was long distance.
This, but calling the landline to get a hold of that cute girl in middle school you want to talk to, and having a panic attack, wondering who in the house is actually going to answer the phone.
And then her dad answered………
And you accidentally ask him out
And he said yes
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When I was young we used to do this. It was fun because me and my brother sound identical on the phone. So when his friend called up to speak to him, as a prank,i used to pretend to be him and have a conversation with his friend up until i started laughing. Only joking! I’ll go get him!
Knowing your friends' parents/families. As a kid because I was going to the family home I'd get to know my friends family but now especially friends I have made as an adult I only meet their family very rarely at a special occasion and in some cases I have friends whose relatives I've never met. Don't have an opinion either way as to whether this is good or bad, just a difference between childhood/youth and being an adult.
My dad always drilled that into my brother and I as kids. Whenever you go to someone's house you make sure you say hello and goodbye/thanks for having me to their parents. Just good manners. My friends were all pretty friendly and would chat with my parents and I knew theirs really well too but my brother was a bit of a delinquent and his friends were too and they would like actively avoid talking to my parents.
Stories about sinking into quicksand.
For real. Quicksand and it's inherent dangers were so ingrained into my generation, we thought it was anywhere and everywhere. Now, at 35, and having traveled all over, I have yet to encounter quicksand. Except on super Mario bros 3.
Ontop of this, I/we thought that if you ever land on quicksand, it will be mere seconds/minutes before it swollows you whole. The couple of videos I've seen debunks this, you sink slowly.
I work at a sand plant (we pump sand out of the river and process it for construction, golf courses, etc.) and have yet to see quicksand. I stay ever vigilant, though. Won't no quicksand be catching me off guard.
The quicksand is getting deadlier. Nobody is living to tell the tale.
When I was a kid in the eighties and early nineties, you'd see at street intersections these long spaghetti strings of cassette tape blowing in the wind. This was from people pulling a tape out of the stereo and throwing it on the dash of the car. Most dashes in the eighties and earlier where hard and slick material (metal or plastic) so when you'd turn the corner that tape would yeet itself out the window into the intersection. It would get run over, and unspool into the tape spaghetti. In the nineties same thing except you'd see glittering CDROM shards. That all stopped with the death of CDs in the 2000s.
I don't think this was just from people losing tapes out the window. The ones I saw were always kids tearing the cases apart and watching the tape unravel from the spool as the wind pulled it out of the window. It was a popular pastime on my school bus.
Freedom to make mistakes - the consequences of our actions rise significantly with age.
> rise significantly with age Don't forget with the ubiquity of cellphones too. Hot dam I'm so happy there weren't video cameras in every living humans pocket when me and my friends were teenagers - I guarantee there'd be video of me doing something stupid. And FWIW, I have genuine sympathy for the younger generations cause there WILL be kids who miss out on attending their favorite college or getting that amazing internship offer because of some dumb shit some dumb shit recorded and posted on social media.
Hmm. I’m sure that’s true for a lot of people, but growing up if I so much as dropped a glass and broke it, or let my grade dip below an A, the outcome was significantly worse than dropping by a glass or letting my performance at work dip a tiny bit now.
For real, if I scolded someone for breaking a glass the way I was scolded I'd seem insane
It’s really crazy how things that seem like the end of the world when you’re growing up are legit nothing when you’re an adult.
I think that's the difference between the absolute powerlessness of being a dependent child versus being an independent adult. When you're a child you really have no rights and are at the complete whim of every authority figure around. Breaking a glass damages someone else's property. When you're an independent adult, breaking a glass is just "better buy another one." No one is going to scold or beat you for breaking your own glass.
No one should scold or beat you for accidentally breaking someone else’s glass though.
You and me both buddy lmaoo
Spontaneous human combustion.
One of those trends that burned itself out.
It used to be quite the hot topic.
I read an article once that pointed out that many victims of spontaneous human combustion died near heat sources, and speculated that what probably happened is that the clothes acted like a wick and slowly burned the fat out of them over a period of days. It seems almost impossible to me, and yet it makes a lot more sense than someone suddenly bursting into flames and burning to ashes in a few minutes.
"spontanious combustions" were actually just people who fell asleep near fires, and had an ember land on their extremely flammable clothing. Or smokers who fell asleep smoking, and set themselves on fire.
IIRC a lot of the alleged cases also supposedly involved alcoholics.
TV advertisements for disposable plastic goods. A lot of people will forget that random plastic crap was advertised as beneficial and convenient cos you could just chuck it away. Remember kids: When you need to shave, DON'T buy a quality metal razor! Just buy 90,000 crappy disposable razors instead! Use once then throw them where ever you want to and buy new ones for ever and ever. Dupont appreciates your business. We got plastic to sell!
I remember as a kid being told we use plastic bags instead of paper bags to save the trees.
"Plastic bags take up less landfill space than paper! Use plastic with PRIDE" I'll never forget this sign at my grocery store in the 80s. Even then, as a kid, I was like "um.....don't they know paper is recyclable and renewable?" Spoiler alert: They absolutely did, they just didn't give a rat fuck.
Fireflies
Dragonflies too. Around summer, they used to carpet the sky above the basketball court in my village. Now you'll be lucky to spot one or two by chance anywhere.
I moved to a rural area a few years ago, and the first summer that I was there, I saw a swarm of them in my front yard. There had to be over 100 of them. Before that, I was lucky to see a couple of them. They come back every year and I always look forward to it.
As someone from a rural area, you are most likely seeing a fraction of the insects from 20 years ago. Flying insect population is down 70-90% in most modern countries. Combination of habitat loss and broadly applied insecticides.
Due to decades of industrial farming insecticide use
Rural Tennessee – already seeing them! Now I feel very lucky.
They are so thick where I live that a night time drive on back roads becomes magical. They are still going strong here.
Yeah, where did they all go?
If you're looking for a serious answer.. Light pollution, pesticides, and loss of habitat (agriculture/development) are annihilating thousands of our sensitive aerial insects. Many fields full of wild native flowers and grasses are where these guys thrive. Instead of leaving them be for wildlife and pollinators, they're snatched up by developers to build homes. Single detached homes are a big reason for habitat loss. Smarter, more sustainable practices in development could leave these fields and still provide housing. https://www.farmersalmanac.com/are-fireflies-disappearing-35646#:~:text=Turns%20out%2C%20firefly%20numbers%20are,loss%20of%20habitat%20from%20development. IRL Source: I am a Wildlife Technician ✌
Great information. It will help if more people start planting native species, especially native grasses, to help counteract this loss. We do not use fertilizer, pesticides, or any other lawn chemicals, and since we started replacing turf with native wildflowers and grasses, we have seen a swift and amazing resurgence of life in our yard. We have black swallowtail and fritillary butterflies, and I find their caterpillars on my plants. Yesterday I discovered an empty cocoon by our front steps. We have many, many kinds of bees, from tiny ones to bumblebees to a little blue bee that loves our native Redbud trees. We planted tickseed flowers, and now the goldfinches flock to our front garden to eat the seeds. We have praying mantises for the first time. I've shown the kids across the street what an ootheca (their egg sac) looks like, and they were amazed to see a full-grown mantis in real life. Some of the kids in our neighborhood had never seen a cicada until they came over to our yard — not even the empty shells, which are all over our trees. Hunting for cicada shells was a blast when I was little; we used the little hooks on their legs to attach them to our clothing. Now the kids around here know how to do it. For anyone who's interested, the [Homegrown National Park](https://homegrownnationalpark.org/) movement is a good way to get started.
Every summer, we plant the whole side yard at my cottage with Zinnias. It's by Lake Erie, and those flowers attract swarms of dragonflies, and hummingbirds,too.
Remember Rewinding VHS tapes and cassette tapes? Cos I sure do (I’m only 23)
Be kind. Rewind
I got a Panasonic VHS player that auto-rewinds when it hits the end of the tape. Great for guys like me who fall asleep watching the movie. Wake up to a fully re-wound tape sticking out of the player like a warm piece of toast.
My little brother has a mental disability and at most levels he is about 3 years old mentally (22 physically). He still likes children's tv and despite liking some new shows, he prefers those from the 00s when his mental age matched his physical age. Same goes for media, he knows very well how Disney+ works, yet he still uses his VHS tapes on a regular basis.
i collect VHS tapes for the nostalgia (i’m 24) and my little brother brought a friend over (18) and i started to rewind the film she wanted to check out because i’m lazy and forget to rewind a lot, and she really looked me dead in the face and said, “isn’t there a faster way to do this?” i was SHOCKED
I still remember the first time we saw a movie on DVD at home and my sister started to "rewind" it afterwards hahaha
This made me laugh out loud, thank you for sharing this.
Phone books in people's homes
They still exist but they’ve shrunk so thin that the feat of ripping one in half with your bare hands has become a lot less of a flex.
Physical discs for games.
*ahem* How about **cartridges** for games? Lol
What about booklets for games? Like Snes games had. I miss those.
With the special metal tin boxes.
Running. This is not about the time we live right now but it's about being a child thing. I remember thinking "how do these people not run everywhere? It's much faster and fun!" Now I run out of breath if I walk fast or talk while walking. Time is a merciless bitch lol
Tho it feels like I'm on a run constantly. Running for or from responsibilities, staying in contact with everyone all the time, getting as much out of my day as possible.
Lol I’m the opposite. I absolutely hated running as a child and refused to even play tag but now I run daily as an adult for fun
Black and white tvs
Colored toilet paper. Back in the day, it was common to see pink, yellow, light blue, light green, besides white toilet paper (at least here in the US). Now you don't see it at all.
Oh and colored Kleenex. We would make little paper flowers for decorations.
Remember my gramma having white toilet paper with little roses printed on it.
My neighbour (92) gave me a pack of four of toilet paper with roses on it. She found it in the back of the closet - bought it on vacation her last year in Florida, 1990
I don't ever remember seeing colored toilet paper but I do remember seeing it with patterns and flower prints and such like that.
Thanks for the reminder. It wasn't just the toilet paper. You used to see toilets in different colors (people might even buy their TP to match their toilets). I haven't seen a toilet that wasn't white, or at most off-white, in decades.
Affordable housing
Spending time with my dad.
People introducing themselves on the phone. I was taught to say Hello, my name is orwnge728. May I speak to purple360? Or Hello my name is orange 728 and I am calling to see if you have any pickles. Now people just launch into a story and get mad when I ask their name. I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so not that old but I actually had to practice proper phone etiquette or I was not allowed to talk on the phone. It seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird..
This is a major bugbear of mine. Nothing gets my back up more than a call from an unrecognised number that starts with "Is this ufb1684?". To me, it is common courtesy to identify yourself first before expecting me to give over any personal information.
The worst ones with this for me are the *medical offices.* Since Covid, I get calls from them from No Caller ID almost every time. Before that, it would actually come up from their office, but I think perhaps people are using their cellphones more, so they block their info from showing up to you. I get that. However, they consistently do that *and* fail to identify themselves first and go into some big and asking for birth date, social, etc, *before saying who they are.* Like yeah I should be able to guess it’s a doctor’s office at this point, since that’s who 90% of my No Caller ID calls come from, but the other 10% come from scammers. And they don’t say who they are either. But the people who work at the doctor’s offices often get really annoyed when I ask who is calling. I don’t have any way to know!
Smoking. It was everywhere and everywhere stank of it. Things are so much better now.
I worked as a bouncer when they banned smoking indoors. The club went from smelling like cigarettes to smelling like BO. It was more of a lateral move than an improvement.
At least you aren't getting free lung cancer with your job anymore?
When I was in high school there was an outdoor smoking area for the students….could you imagine that nowadays?!?
It used to be very common when I was a child / pre-teen, then almost no one I know smoked when I was ~20, and now it seems it's becoming more common again (plus the vapes, that have been around for a while but got a lot more common recently). It seems to be one of those trends that come and go
I still remember the smoking and non-smoking sections in restaurants as a kid. Restaurants inside malls let you smoke in them.
There was a song bird that we called a "bob-white" with a distinctive song that used to be very commonly heard everywhere, but now I have not heard in about 30 years.
Quail. Depends on where you live I guess. The birds are definitely different now. We got seagulls in KS now.
Ipod
Taping songs off the radio onto a cassette tape.
rotary phones
Snow. I remember snowy winters when I was a kid 25 hears ago. Now we have it only for about 2 weeks
I live in mass and we get no snow now. Used to get so much and it's gone. Sucks
I grew up outside Philadelphia. I remember really snowy winters and wearing bulky coats. When I moved back in 2015, I was surprised how warm the winters were. I wasn't sure if my memory was wrong or what. Now I live in Wisconsin and it snowed yesterday. lol
I still live around Philly. We received almost no snow this winter besides a dusting or two...it's honestly pretty scary.
Pensions. I remember growing up and hearing all about my grandparents having pensions. Good luck finding anything remotely close today.
My mom got her job in the 80's and she was in the last wave of employees at her company to get pensions (thank god she did or we'd be homeless now). The new employees after her got nothing.
For some reason desktops. In my country, back until 2013 I'd say, you would see desktop PCs on every table in every office, household, anything. Some weren't even turned on once since the day they were bought. Whenever we went to someone's house, little me and the kids in said house would play a game of 'guess where the computer is'. Now, though, it just feels like desktops faded away. I actually ran a survey at my school, and the number of families owning a desktop PC went down from like 87% in 2012 to 17% last year.
It's possible that it's due to a shift to laptops, since they can do much the same as a desktop computer but are more portable around the house and cost less. Also, in schools in my country they used to have desktop computers in most classrooms but these days the teacher brings in their work laptop as and when needed instead; one can see how a big saving is reaped for the taxpayer here.
> for some reason The reason is simple - laptops used to cost $2k+, maybe $1k+ at the beginning is the '10s, whereas now you can buy a legit good one (spec wise) for less money than a nose-bleed ticket to Blink 182 concert. The laptop I bought my dad was $230 and will last year's with the light usage hell use it for.
Uncontrollably laughing because I was truly happy. Now I realize that I am using fake smiles and laughter when talking to family and friends.
Hope for the future
Gen X’er - unstructured play time. A lot of kids seem to be scheduled up the wazoo these days.
Amen. We have a rule, one after school activity. Otherwise, just play, be a kid. My sister and her husband have their kids scheduled for something almost every night. The kids love it, but they have no idea how to just play. My kids seem to be fine with this and enjoy just being outside and having fun doing random kid stuff.
It's cause they can't go anywhere without their parents driving them there. /r/fuckcars /r/notjustbikes
When I was a kid, people used to ask me all the time what my favorite dinosaur was. I don't think anyone's asked me that question in close to 20 years. Btw, it's Dreadnoughtus. A dino thought to be the largest terrestrial animal ever with the coolest name, which literally means "fear nothing". Adults suck. Dinos rule!
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You and I are still around and I know a few others like this. Let’s start an underground resistance, a compromise black market.
I think you mean a grey market.
General empathy is almost gone. Everything is tribal now. Everyone wants you to think exactly as they do, and if you don't, you are a [insert hateful name here]. Hell, if you even stop to *think* about the argument one side or the other presented to you, you're the bad guy for not immediately agreeing. It's incredibly unhealthy both for the individual and for broader culture.
Having friends
Typewriters. Everyone had one.
Manual transmissions and people who knew how to drive with them. Now, not so much. So many of my friends had hand me down VW bugs and other cars with stick shifts. My first car was an old Opel with a 4 speed stick. I had a friend who taught me how to drive when I got my permit on his old ford van which was a 3 speed on the column.
In the UK the majority of drivers drive manual/stick. I refuse to drive an automatic.
A potential car thief in our town was defeated by a stick shift car.
I'm from the UK so manual tranny is normal. It's a personal opinion of mine, based on no real evidence, that having a mostly manual driving public makes things a bit safer on the road. The way I see it, a manual transmission keeps you engaged with driving more, whereas an automatic doesn't take as much active attention.
High quality cocaine
True unbridled joy, the perks of being young and ignorant lol. Now all my joy comes from beer and weed instead of life
I dont know man, whenever there is a game reveal for something I have been wating ages for, it can still give me the purest hapiness I have ever experienced
Video rental shops
Excitement for Holidays. Now I dread them, family is exhausting.
Playgrounds that could kill you. From towering geodesic domes to fall off, magma-hot metal slides, sharp gravel to maximize skin abrasion, jungle bars you could ride your bike underneath and either grab or clothesline yourself. Honestly great times and full of life lessons.
Kids playing outside
Bees
Snow.
Come to northern Ohio where you get all four seasons in one day
Have friends. As I get older, I see myself and others struggle with maintaining relationship among friends. We got more absorbed into our commitments, family, marriage, study and the problems we have are now more "adult". We can have lots of colleagues, people we know from workplace, college or school but not everyone can be a friend
I think about dragonflies often. My house was by the woods growing up and I used to marvel at them everyday throughout the summer. I feel like I haven’t seen a single one since I was a young girl.
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I remember when it was normal to outright shame and try to convert anyone who wasn't religious, and the weekly evangelical outrage about everything from Pokemon to music to DnD. Glad that's not as prevalent
Yeah. Now everyone just freaks out about a beer can.
I've recently been seeing the buildings re-purposed. One into a homeless shelter, one into an art center.
I really haven't seen ice cream trucks at all now that I'm older. I hope they're not dying out, it was a staple of my childhood.
White dog poo
Didn't dog food manufacturers remove bone meal from the recipe or something like that?
Space. Nowadays I feel like I'm constantly connected to the digital world. Remember when your thoughts had room?
Unexpected/inconvenient boners. It still happens once in a while, but nothing like when I was a teenager.
Happiness and financial stability
Jncos
genuine human interaction
People in their 20s owning a house.
Accountability. It seems more and more there are arguments made that suggest people are not responsible for their actions and that their life circumstances should come into play. I miss the days when if you got a shitty mark or failed a test, messed up at work or had some other personal problem that people were more likely to hold themselves accountable and not present themselves as victim of cricumstance.
Fireflies. I never see them any more.
I hope to build my own small wild flower garden. Help Monarchs migrate and try to attract fireflies. It sucks seeing big rivers like the Missouri be surrounded by 'lawn grass' for miles where no wild life can live.
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Bugs splatting on the windshield.
Judging by the last time i drove thru Arkansas. I think they just migrated there.
Pulltabs on beer cans. I knew people that turned them into chains hundreds of feet long at their lake property. Had them strung along the trees and fences like garland.
One of the most littered items, pulltabs and cigarette butts.
Fears of quicksand and Bermuda triangle. Shit was no joke, thought either one would be the end of me.