62 going on about 13 or 14?
I'm 38. ...I have always been interested in what life was like back when you guys that are in your 60's, 70's and 80's was as kids???
I'm 38.With that all being said I have always been interested in what life was like back when you guys that are in your 60's, 70's and 80's was as kids???
CORRECT !This is just a wild guess but I'm thinking this forum is largely populated by cranky old men with little tolerance for bullshit. Again just a guess, not based on empirical data.
Oh great memories it was exactly the same for me except for riding the train where I live there was no mass transit smaller population etc. but we rode our bicycles over the bridge into the next town that had a Kmart that was about 10 miles one way and like you I was about 10 when I did this for the first timeWhat was it like? I grew up in suburbia so YMMV. Wiffle ball, tree forts, playing army in the woods, bike riding miles away from home, playing board games, snowball fights, hitchhiking, shooting BB guns, grew and sold tomatoes in the neighborhood. made and sold ice tea and lemonade to construction workers while my development was being built (I was ten), collected bottles from the same area for the deposit. We also rode our decorated bikes in parades on Memorial Day and the Fourth of July.As a teen, with just a friend, riding the bus to the train station, then taking the train to Philly and wandering around the business and shopping districts, probably need a CCW now.
This was in between mowing the grass, pulling weeds, taking care of the garden, raking leaves, making your bed, staying up on schoolwork and other assigned chores. Also worked for my father in his landscaping business, 50 cents an hour, the word "allowance" wasn't in his depression era/WW2 vocabulary. If you wanted something, you worked for it.
and do what ever my wife asks when she wants.
I'm 38. My childhood was the end of what I would call normal childhood. There was no cell phones, internet or playing video games online with all your friends.
I just turned 64 this month. In my minds eye I still feel like I am 35ish, but when I look in the mirror, there is this old man looking back. I don't know who he is, but I wish he would get out of my mirror.
Well that takes care of my mental health, such that it is.
As for my physical state, some days I feel and act like I am still in my 40's and generally pay for it the next, other days I just feel as old as Methuselah.
I'm 38. . . . . . With that all being said I have always been interested in what life was like back when you guys that are in your 60's, 70's and 80's was as kids???
seems like mostly guys around my age groupGiven the coronavirus issue, it would be interesting to know better the demographic profile of this forum's membership. Stay safe 'n well folks. (I'm 55 but closer to 56.)
(EDIT: I added buckets for 40-49, 30-39, and under 30. Unfortunately I can't remove a bucket i.e. 'under 50' or fix the order of them. Those that checked under 50 are able to change their 'vote' for the correct bucket.)