Finish this sentence! I remember a time when.............

[LuvMy1911]

When I first started hunting (in grade school), every single neighbor allowed hunting rabbits & squirrels on their farm lands.

This required a promise that I would only shoot at small game and be absolutely certain there were no farm buildings or livestock beyond the target.

I still remember grand-dad Weinert asking me if I knew it caused BIG trouble to shoot at the insulators on the power lines (they had the big dairy farm).

They would pull over and offer a lift back home if it started raining (even though we had our .22 rifles or shotguns slung over our shoulders). And we would help catch their cows if they slipped out of their fenced-in field.

[badboyparamedic]

When people treated each other with respect and were decent to each other because it was the RIGHT thing to do.

[Pb2au]

When I could change the oil, tune up, and maintain my vehicle with about three wrenches, a screw driver and a set of feeler gauges. And no computer was needed.
When I could buy a box of 22's, a tea and a candy bar for under 3$ and spend a great afternoon under the sun.
When it was a great thing to get a summer job, not a perceived punishment.
When it was a great thing to have an after school job.
When I would get out of detention to go to my after school job.

[1Shirt]

A box of 22 short HP's, were 30 cents! Shot a lot of bushytails with them. I pumped hi test Esso gas at 26 cents a gal, and regular was 24 cents.
1Shirt!

[Janoosh]

When you went to the butcher shop, and the guy behind the counter used a bandsaw to cut what your mom ordered, and he wrapped it in brown paper, and there was sawdust (now flux lol) on the floor, and he didn't use gloves.
You only went to the super market for canned goods because there all those "specialty" stores. (FISH.MEAT.Bread).
The deli man added up your purchase on a paper bag. Faster than ican type this. And your mom checked his math!

[6.5 mike]

Price war gas =.17 per gallon, put a two bit piece in a smoke machine = smokes, book of matches & 4 cents change. 22 lr hp's .55 cents a box, bounty on crows = .50 ea. And yes, it was a much better time.

[Janoosh]

I grew up inthe Bronx, NY. It origionally cost 15c to ride the bus. It took two bus' one way to get to Orchard Beach and two bus' return trip. We used tne change for a malt at the beach. Then the price was raised to 25c, so we gave up the malt. We were all of 13 years old.

[Janoosh]

First " Real" job i ever had was behind a Soda Fountain..........

[perotter]

The softball bats became "machine guns" and the softballs became grenades at recess. Then spent 30 minutes killing commies. And the teachers thought it was a good thing.

[OnceFired]

When teachers just made you think, instead of making you think like they do.

OnceFired

[Ithaca Gunner]

"Follow The Bouncing Ball..."

[Trey45]

When gasoline had lead in it.

[perotter]

Getting and learning to use a slide-rule greatly cut down the amount of scratch paper needed.

[10-x]

When a man was a man ,and a woman was a woman.

[starmac]

When a man was a man ,and a woman was a woman.

This has like a lot of things has proven to have been very important part of days gone by.

[Ithaca Gunner]

When gasoline had lead in it.

Paint too!

[Freightman]

When we were FREE!

[RayinNH]

..when a box of peas and a plastic "peashooter" would entertain you for hours.
...when you could buy B-B's at any age.
...when a movie cost more than the popcorn.
...when you could buy smokes for your father if you were tall enough to toss the money on the counter.
...when you got together with your friends to swap comic books.
...when comic books were a dime, five cents if it had no cover.
...people didn't look like slobs out in public.
...when people didn't get all "het up" if you uttered the word God.
...when men married women.

I could go on but don't know if I should get mad or cry.

[jcwit]

When 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 year old kids could roam all over our small town and play baseball on a vacant lot in complete safety, and not having to worry about any harm coming to them!

We have lost a lot in our Nation!

[WILCO]

Lots and lots of great responses! Thank you my friends! I've enjoyed reading them all.