OT...........\"In Our Day\"

[Ritual]

Originally posted by No Such Agency
edit: apologies for a non-gender-neutral, heteronormative definition

If you\'re old enough you can get away with that sort of thing! lol

 

[freakinacage]

Originally posted by Talion
In my day a \"Wagon Wheel\" bar would fit on a real wagon, now they only fit Cindy\'s.

and a \"Snickers\" was called a Marathon.

and it snowed in the winter.

yeah and \"starburst\" were opal fruits and contained so many colours that i would get wheezy from eating one!

and i\'m sure cadbury\'s cream eggs were bigger

 

[NerdyOgre254]

is it just me or is growing old the flavor of the month?
but no, i remember some of the old days.
nothing on everyone else\'s scale, but i remember watching the price of petrol.
In australian dollars (approx 1/3 pound, 1/2 USD
60c/L
70c/L
80c/L
90c/L
100c/L
110c/L
120c/L
130c/L
and being in the country fuel is so much more expensive.
i don\'t own a car, but i drive the one my parents don\'t use.

 

[lizcam]

Originally posted by NerdyOgre254
is it just me or is growing old the flavor of the month?
but no, i remember some of the old days.
nothing on everyone else\'s scale, but i remember watching the price of petrol.
In australian dollars (approx 1/3 pound, 1/2 USD
60c/L
70c/L
80c/L
90c/L
100c/L
110c/L
120c/L
130c/L
and being in the country fuel is so much more expensive.
i don\'t own a car, but i drive the one my parents don\'t use.

I remember lining up every other day to get our allotted 1/4 tank of gas durring the gas crisis in the \'70\'s. Then we got really crappy plastic cars the size and shape of a shoe box in the \'80\'s to save gas. The horns sounded like an old whining woman\'s fart. I\'mm all for muscle cars, myself. \'68 Mustang is what drew me to my hubby.

 

[Torn blue sky]

Ah good times, Snickers , opal fruits, And Bat Fink.
I can drive a double clutch Airhead you should see the relics they had in the REME yards when I joined lol

 

[Ebonbuddha]

In my day my aunt would let me come over to their house to hang out with my cousin. She would give each of us $2 to go to Eckard Drugs to buy comics, Pepsis and candy.

The popular candies (snacks) of choice were Gobstoppers, Big League Chew, Giant pixie sticks, or Reese’s peanut butter cups, and Slim Jim.

My cousin and I rode our bikes everywhere and never had to worry.

When we weren’t buying comics we would go to K-Mart and buy those big bags of plastic army men and play war. We took turns throwing rocks at each others army. Wonder why I am into miniature war games. I preferred the Sci-Fi pack of army men.

You could actually talk and no one would get offended and raise a lot of hell over trivial things.

After school fights did not require counseling.

You could drink from the water tap in the yard.

Dodge ball and stick ball were the coolest games ever. Right after hard tackle football.


Oh yeah; Vampirella was considered a racy comic. lol

 

[wiccanpony]

Originally posted by lizcam

Originally posted by NerdyOgre254
is it just me or is growing old the flavor of the month?
but no, i remember some of the old days.
nothing on everyone else\'s scale, but i remember watching the price of petrol.
In australian dollars (approx 1/3 pound, 1/2 USD
60c/L
70c/L
80c/L
90c/L
100c/L
110c/L
120c/L
130c/L
and being in the country fuel is so much more expensive.
i don\'t own a car, but i drive the one my parents don\'t use.

I remember lining up every other day to get our allotted 1/4 tank of gas durring the gas crisis in the \'70\'s. Then we got really crappy plastic cars the size and shape of a shoe box in the \'80\'s to save gas. The horns sounded like an old whining woman\'s fart. I\'mm all for muscle cars, myself. \'68 Mustang is what drew me to my hubby.

not only lining up, but the line was five blocks long and I had a hell of time trying to remember if I was an even or odd day (your car’s license decided which day you could fill up).