50 Posts About The ’80s That Show Parts Of Our Lives That Don’t Exist Anymore

And both approaches are toxic and not teaching your kid the right things.

Neither are generational, both have always happened and still do

While I don’t think the “I’ll give you something to cry about” was the right approach, I do know that children were taught to give up their seats to the elderly and/or the handicapped. I do know that children were polite and respectful, as adults were expected to be, also. I’m really astounded when I give up my seat to an old person who’s clearly struggling, and there are young people that are completely oblivious—usually on their phone. I am astounded by the way so many people talk to servers, cashiers, etc.

I heard that quite a few times. You wanna cry? I'll give you something to cry about. My Step-father.

AAAAAMMMMEEEENNNNNN!! and it shows.....we "oldsters can take anything and keep going....and we don't expect anything for free.....

Hollywood doesn't hire women that age even if she did. But I like her - I really like her.

And she's absolutely beautiful to me. Of course, my name is Forrest.

She looks wonderful

More power to her! If you want to go the other way, all good. Not sure why it’s so controversial for people to just want to grow old gracefully and comfortably?

Why would anyone feel they have to apologize for their hair color? Or lack or it? Or lack of hair?

Well, I only had one childhood phone number, and I have a password FOR EVERY STINKING THING. So, there is that

I live in what used to be my grandparents family home which was built prior to the 1906 SF earthquake and has a telephone nook. The woodwork has what was their (and my mom’s) old phone number etched into it: “Dolores X-13XX” which was shortened to DOL-13XX before becoming the seven-digit number (plus 415 area code) of today. There are plenty of landlines out there in the world today like mine, that are still their original number, even before they were solely numbers used. Obvs I can’t forget it, because I see it all the time.

I not only still remember my phone number from childhood, but also some of my friends’ from… well, longer than I want to admit. Today, I struggle to remember my hubby’s mobile number.

My childhood phone number is my mobile/cell phone pin number. I already had it memorized!

I actually called a utility company the other day and they asked me my cell phone number that I was using to verify my account. I literally could not remember for a good 30 seconds. I was trying to think what setting there was to check it. It came to me eventually, but I got the impression the woman was wary that I wasn't who I said I was. Who calls their own phone??? But yes, I do remember my childhood phone number, oddly enough.

I no longer drink mixtures of unknown alcohol out of a fire bucket. So that's a step in the right direction, I'd say.

Learning & growing every day of every year, until my body suffers off this mortal coil.

"I was so young back then."

Duh?

And yet, for a politician, changing your position on an issue, or worse yet, seeking a compromise, will get you in trouble. Quare: why doesn't the US government work? Discuss.

Omg yes! Haha and mercurochrome! Put it in, stings like crazy but you know it “killed germs”.

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Funny, I thought about that the last time I unwrapped a Band-Aid.

So much easier to open the bandaid that way, older fingers have a rough ti e opening them sometimes these days

Some of the boundaries, expectations, rules, limits, rewards, and consequences of my childhood (1950s) should not have been inflicted on anyone, much less a child. Were the boundaries, expectations, rules, limits, rewards, and consequences placed on women back then something we want to return to?