What do you miss?

[NoFlinch]

I miss kids playing in the streets.

Yeah, I remember playing outside until I heard the "cowbell" my Mom would ring to tell me to come home. Usually about 1 hour AFTER dark.

I need more cowbell.....

 

[Rocky C]

I miss kids playing in the streets.

Hah! My Dad used to say "if you go in the street and get mashed by a car, it's you own fault and nobody is going to feel sorry for you cause the streets are for cars not little boys! Now go out and play on 82nd"

To this day. I keep my rear out of the streets and am constantly confounded by those who think they are public sidewalks, bike lanes, cell phone hotspots, whatever...

 

[Joe13]

I was referring to neighborhood streets, not those numb skulls running across a 4 lane highway

 

[Certaindeaf]

I miss the days when every single girl didn't have a belly button piercing and wasn't all tattooed up like a gangsta saila.

 

[BillM]

25¢ gas
50¢ 22 shells



Only 4 channels on the TV--all worth watching, and it was FREE.
Now I have 60 channels of digital poop that's not worth turning the set on, and I'm
paying for it!

Cars that a normal person with a basic set of tools could work on.

 

[Gunwheeler]

Lucky Beer in a bottle. Not for the beer but for the puzzle printed inside the bottletop.

 

[salmonriverjohn]

Some of us are dating the heck out of ourselfs.
I miss being in Grandpas garage with the heady smell of Hoppes nitro solvent (I can close my eyes and smell it) and fresh hanging dark red venison.

Oh yeah, and vanilla cokes.

 

[Sgt Nambu]

I miss cars that regular 6'+ Americans could be comfortable in!

 

[Member 34319]

I'm not too old. 30. I miss the same things here miss. I grew up with an intro to electronics. I miss the days without them. Water gun fights. Nerf gun fights. Hide and seek. Hell, even a game of chess that's not on the computer. I miss camping, when you could because has was affordable. Playing checkers or chess in the tiny bubblegum 20 footer. Fishing with time, not thinking of all the crap I have to do because I work so much and make so little.

To sum it up.

I miss America and what it was.

 

[Certaindeaf]

I miss when a Smith & Wesson Bodyguard and M&P were both revolvers. Come on.. did you run out of possible names so had to coat tail on those there?

 

[forefathersrback]

I miss the days when every single girl didn't have a belly button piercing and wasn't all tattooed up like a gangsta saila.

Certaindeaf, really? Just because she has a tattoo that reads FOREFATHERSRBACK, Don't get upset!. But I secretly know that you gosta love those belly rings!!!!!!

 

[Certaindeaf]

Yes really. If I wanted a belly ring I'd eat more onion rings.. mmm!

 

[Mikej]

Yeah, I remember playing outside until I heard the "cowbell" my Mom would ring to tell me to come home. Usually about 1 hour AFTER dark.

I need more cowbell.....

I HAD ONE OF THESE! It was a brake drum/axle from some old truck probably, hanging under the eves of the house. Dad would beat it with a ball peen hammer, called it "The Gong". If I was out of range to hear it, big trouble for me.

I miss the trail bikes. Dad and uncle home made "Tote Goats", for deer hunting. Then Honda 55s and 90s came along, and then my own Honda XL 250 after I got the job wrenching at a Honda dealership. I miss leaving the house before light and riding all day on a 50/50 mix of paved and dirt roads. No permits, no endorsements, just the drivers license.

 

[Joe13]

I miss parents spanking their kids...

 

[BryanMunson]

You guys are right there with me...

I miss my boxers, Keeley and Roxy.

I miss a government that loved our country, a leader that served in the military and had skin in the "game", where the rule of law applied to everyone-President, AG, IRS.

 

[jbett98]

Speaking of kids, remember the days when you're standing in line at a store and a precocious little kid next to you would ask you a question or just smile at you, and you could tell them a kids joke/riddle, or, answer their question without being stared at by the parent like you're some sort of kidnapping weirdo.

 

[jrprich]

I miss $1.25 per gallon gasoline.

Heck, I remember filling my 70s 4x4 Suburban with 80 gallons (dual saddle tanks) @ .29.9 per gallon and heading out from Texas to Oregon

 

[jrprich]

I miss SO MANY people and things that it makes me sad to think about it

My Mom, my close friends, surfing every week, my 69 Dart 340, being pain free, boundless energy, my first dog, I guess it is my youth.