I have became my grandfather

[redriverhunter]

I have became my grandfather the only differnce is i keep my mouth shut. Today I went the gun range and youngster show up in pajama bottoms. I sure miss watching/listening to my grandfather as long as I was not on the recieving end.

[Half Dog]

Yep. The world we grew up in is not here anymore. What we learned as wrong is not wrong anymore and the right we learned is not right anymore either. No wonder we get “cranky” when we get old.

[myg30]

Were they at least camo ? Or some kind of Spider-Man jammas ? Lol
Surprised I’ve not seen pajamas in church yet.
Several with hats or ball caps on too, kinda disrespectful I think.
No one cares anymore it seems.

Mike

[panhed65]

around here they wear sweatpants to church. back before I retired, one day at work a guy shows up for a job in sweatpants. after interview, big boss asks me what I think. I told him if the guy was too lazy to get dressed in the morning, he would be too lazy to work. did not get the job.
Barry

[Winger Ed.]

It's part of the cycle of life.

Like when you were a kid- you believed in Santa Claus, and looked forward to his visits.
In a few short years- you realize he isn't a real person.
A while after that: you become Santa Claus.

[edler7]

Remember when you would have the bad dream about going somewhere in your pajamas or underwear?

No big deal these days.

[stubshaft]

That's because parents do not parent. They take the easy way out and raise entitled little ankle-biters.

[Winger Ed.]

bad dream about going somewhere in your pajamas or underwear?

I always thought pajamas were what your parents wore in case the house caught on fire
and they had to stand out in the yard in front of the neighbors.

[jaysouth]

If you do a good job of raising children, you get to spoil your grandchildren. If you spoil your children, you get to raise your grandchildren.

[rockshooter]

jammies don't have pockets- where you gonna put that pile of 25-20 brass that somebody left on the ground
Loren
(I know, a dream)

[45workhorse]

If you do a good job of raising children, you get to spoil your grandchildren. If you spoil your children, you get to raise your grandchildren.

Thanks
I will borrow this as needed!

[Nazgul]

I am a part time teachers aide in the local High School. Love the students. There are a significant number that wear their PJ's to school on a regular basis.

Don

[bedbugbilly]

My wife and I stopped at the grocery store the other to get a couple things. I sat in the car and my wife scooted in to get them. She came out when done, just shaking her head. Seems there was a young couple in there - the guy was picking the groceries out and his VERY young wife or girlfriend was following him up and down the aisles. She was extremely pregnant - wearing sandals, tight short shorts and a very short crop top - all of which left nothing to the imagination. Yea . . . . it's a different world out there . . . . sadly.

[Wag]

That's because parents do not parent. They take the easy way out and raise entitled little ankle-biters.

Exactly this. It's been a problem for the last 40+ years. It's the reason we're in the mess we're in today.


If you do a good job of raising children, you get to spoil your grandchildren. If you spoil your children, you get to raise your grandchildren.

Great statement there.

--Wag--

[waksupi]

I see quite a few wearing surgical scrubs, particularly in hot weather. I wear them around home, but wouldn't wear them to Walmart, that's what pajamas are for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=420C_Nq1-dA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=420C_Nq1-dA

[Polymath]

If you do a good job of raising children, you get to spoil your grandchildren. If you spoil your children, you get to raise your grandchildren.

That's Gold.

[Winger Ed.]

Thanks
I will borrow this as needed!

This concept is very important.

For example:
When your Grand kid's diaper gets 'full', you want to be able to smile, and 'hand them back'.

[nicholst55]

I'm certain that a lot of you can relate to this. When I was growing up, I was not allowed to go anywhere 'respectable' while wearing blue jeans. I had to change into different pants before we left home. Also, my mother did not drive, so she had to ride the city bus to go anywhere. I vividly recall her always wearing a scarf over her hair when we went 'downtown.' She was a Kansas farm girl, raised during the 1920s and 30s. My, how our world has changed since then.

[Char-Gar]

My grandfather did not suffer fools lightly. I was raised by him and tend to follow his ways, but unless somebody is effecting me directly, I let idiots be idiots in public.

[john.k]

At work ,I was in charge of handing out overalls.........needless to say I got plenty.........so i wear them everywhere .....even to bed when its cold to get up of a night.............They not cheap like pyjamas tho,I see overalls for $60-$80 in the hardware...............I even got a couple of pr cut up ,so I got dark blue top ,light blue pants..........free cavalry uniform for muzzleloader shooting.

[john.k]

my grandfather spent most of his time in an old Chesterfield armchair............I remember he always wore slippers with the toes cut out of them ,and had very long yellow toenails...his other shoes were rubber gumboots he wore driving up the cows....again with the toes cut out...and one tooth ...just one......he lived to be well over 90,and grandmother lived to 104...............He was born in 1885,so most of my memories are from when I was quite young,and he was quite old.

[WRideout]

I once remarked to a lady co-worker that we all turn in to our own parents. She gave me a horrified look.

Wayne

[georgerkahn]

I'm certain that a lot of you can relate to this. When I was growing up, I was not allowed to go anywhere 'respectable' while wearing blue jeans. I had to change into different pants before we left home. Also, my mother did not drive, so she had to ride the city bus to go anywhere. I vividly recall her always wearing a scarf over her hair when we went 'downtown.' She was a Kansas farm girl, raised during the 1920s and 30s. My, how our world has changed since then.

A few months at my then-new job (~1971) I was called into bosses office and severely redownded for wearing jeans to work! He voiced that "dungarees" were the trousers of choice of the really, really poor as well as mis-fits during his depression-time youth, and I would no longer be permitted to wear them. (My job included cleaning bottom pans of caged rats, mice, guinea pigs, and pigeons in a animal-behaviour lab -- quite appropriate clothing, imho). I went "to work" exploring any in-writing rules and regulations governing work attire, and finding NONE -- I both joined/became a strong union member; and... went back to wearing my jeans. A fellow worker (a lady) joined my jean-wearing. Boss fumed, but -- was powerless to enforce his demand.
"Clothes" -- the root of this thread -- appears, imho, a subject of the eyes of the beholder. 74 years of age, I still "dress" to go shopping; to church; and the like. I still recall a few years back when a wood-splitter hydraulic hose let loose and I had to make a real run to store: The first thing I did was apologize and explain my (disheveled) appearance.
Yes! Times have indeed changed!

[warren5421]

I spent enough time in Uncle Sam’s Navy being told what to wear. I was raised in a hard shell baptist house and told what to wear. Got my education and went to work, was told what to wear. Retired and the wife tells me what to wear! Don’t understand why someone isn’t telling these young people what to wear!!!

[Ickisrulz]

I think one of the best things that has happened to our society is switching to more comfortable clothes. I too remember when teachers, department store workers, etc. wore suits and ties. For what reason? "Dressing up" costs more, is harder to maintain and is uncomfortable.

[georgerkahn]

I think one of the best things that has happened to our society is switching to more comfortable clothes. I too remember when teachers, department store workers, etc. wore suits and ties. For what reason? "Dressing up" costs more, is harder to maintain and is uncomfortable.

I very much respect your way of looking at it, Ickisrulz, which may in fact reinforce my having become an "old fart"! However, for one of my recent medical lab blood-draws, the Phlebotomist who did the procedure was a young lady -- my guess in very early 20's -- who had jewelry pierced through an eye-brow; another (a horseshoe) through her lower lip; a pearl through one cheek; and, another gem through a nostril. She had multiple earrings, too. Complemented was JET black hair, black lipstick, and black what-we-used-to-call "peddle-pushers" -- also black -- pants. She did (phew!) have the hospital scrub top on, though. Her inch-long fingernails were each painted different colors/patterns, too. My thoughts included both Halloween being a couple of months away ;); and, if I should feel relaxed with her sticking a needle in me to draw some of my blood? (Turned out all went OK :))
Fred Rogers ("Mr. Rogers Neighborhood) often professed that he ONLY wore long sleeved, button shirts, as they were part of the image -- respect! -- he hoped to maintain with his (child-) audience.
Again... once again "just me" I suspect -- but imho there WAS something when the Texaco attendant came out to fill your truck wearing a uniform... The (male) bank tellers wearing button shirts with ties; and the school teachers being semi-formally attired... 'Specially in education environments, at least the thoughts and theories included their teachers being ROLE MODELS -- for the students to emulate in later years.
geo

[john.k]

Many years ago,the foremen used to wear suit coats,waistcoats,white shirts and ties..........and I doubt any of them were ever washed .........the ties were always rolled up from contact with who knows what,white shirts definitely off white,and the waistcoats and coats were literally filthy ......but they always wore them.....no doubt it was the rule written down somewhere ...just like not being one minute late.

[Winger Ed.]

Many years ago,the foremen used to wear suit coats,waistcoats,white shirts and ties..

Go back a little farther and almost everybody did.
My Grandfather wouldn't leave the house unless he was wearing a suit or in his Police Officer uniform.

The Hollywood image of townspeople in Western movies is wrong.
Everybody in down was well dressed unless you were some sort of laborer.

In one of the documentaries about the shoot out at the OK corral
the narrator made the observation that in the only picture of Ike Clanton- the bad guy, he was wearing a suit. In the picture taken when the East & West railroads were joined, everybody there is wearing a suit or nice clothes.

Everything has gotten more casual, for lack of a better word.
As late as the early 70s, if you drove a pick up truck into town and didn't load it up-- you were some sort of poor, hick, farmer.

[Texas by God]

In my retirement, I've noticed that I spend a Lot of time piling up downfall from trees into bonfire piles- just like Granddad did!
I just wish that him or Dad( or both) were here to help. And I wish that I could smell the smoke!
To the OP- I'm pretty sure that your Granddad would be proud of you.

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[Hannibal]

Mostly I remember my grandparents complaining about how young people had no common sense, we're impolite, had no work ethic and dressed poorly.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

They also fretted quite a bit about how these kids were going to be in charge of the country in a few decades. It does appear there was good reason to worry about that.

[Dekota56]

From working in a school I got to see a lot of the young ones, who seem to been raised with no morals.
It is tough not to want to say something. Parents no days seem like they don’t even care if there child even cuss them out, they think it is cute. Enough said by me.. I was 20 yrs. Army and my father was Airborne.

[JRLesan]

Not one comment about that old song???

[Beerd]

Not one comment about that old song???

hum a few bars and we will try to follow along
..

[Hannibal]

From working in a school I got to see a lot of the young ones, who seem to been raised with no morals.
It is tough not to want to say something. Parents no days seem like they don’t even care if there child even cuss them out, they think it is cute. Enough said by me.. I was 20 yrs. Army and my father was Airborne.

I've found that I prefer to keep as much distance as practical between myself and the public in general. Too many folks worried about things that I've learned don't matter and not nearly enough worried about things that do. There are a whole bunch of people with all kinds of problems and most all of 'em don't seem to be the least bit interested in doing anything to REALLY improve themselves or their situation.

So it goes.

[Murphy]

Times have changed, and will again. The things that haven't changed, are class and respect.

And that's about all I have to say about that.


Murphy

[Wag]

I've found that I prefer to keep as much distance as practical between myself and the public in general. Too many folks worried about things that I've learned don't matter and not nearly enough worried about things that do. There are a whole bunch of people with all kinds of problems and most all of 'em don't seem to be the least bit interested in doing anything to REALLY improve themselves or their situation.

So it goes.

That's it in a nutshell.

--Wag--

[john.k]

There is no doubt that dress standards were maintained......up to about 1970 ,I suspect maybe the spagetti westerns where the main characters wore dirty underwear for the whole movie might have had something to do with it.

[Finster101]

There is no doubt that dress standards were maintained......up to about 1970 ,I suspect maybe the spagetti westerns where the main characters wore dirty underwear for the whole movie might have had something to do with it.

Maybe. Tucco did put his dirty rags back on after taking a bath.

[DocSavage]

Last time I wore a suit and tie was as a salesman in the 70s. Some of the "pants" I've seen of late look like pajama bottoms. Had a big argument with my grandmother wearing a suit to church called me a heathen for not wearing one,I asked how many 3 piece suits were around Jesus' day and did he not lay into religious leaders who were wearing such garments for show.

[Plate plinker]

I can get past the ear gauges and other facial disfigurement.

[jaysouth]

I like the dollar stores. You don't have to get dressed up like you were going to WalMart.

[justindad]

You spend your money on what matters to you. If you think wearing expensive clothing will elevate your social status and earn favor from society, you will. If you think driving a new car and carrying the latest smartphone will make you look impressive, then you might not have any money left over to wear suits everywhere you go (particularly when no one in your social groups considers suit wearing to be respectable). I try to limit my character judgements of others to their propensity to build up or tear down the people around them.
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Now I wear leather dress shoes while casting because I don’t like owning many things so I don’t have extra shoes. Work shoes, church shoes, dress shoes, brown shoes, black shoes, running shoes, yard work shoes, sandals, slippers, snow boots - not for me. I’m just a contemptible red neck who flies around the world teaching people engineering skills they can use to feed their families.

[GaryN]

I was over at my parents about 20 years ago. (They are long gone.) There were several of my siblings and their kids. One niece in particular liked to load up on the piercings. I asked her if she had been playing in her dad's tackle box. She laughed and said " I knew someone was going to say something".