Random Poll o' the Week: Remember when...

ahhhh, I remember when I wasn't expected to be attached to my blackberry/email 24/7 and answer emails as soon as I got them....thank you boss man.....I could get in my car and DRIVE and no one could find me until I chose to come back to the home phone attached to my WALL..

 I remember when.... gas was $.99/gallon!  

WOW, I miss those days.

I'm really dating myself.... but I remember when if you used the phone in town you only dialed 5 numbers.  The last # of the town extension & the last 4 digits.  Yup, I'm old.

Remember back in the day when there was no such thing as reality tv.

Remember back in the day when trapper keepers where THE item to get for school supplies.

Remember back in the day when people had beepers?!?!?!  And when people had a cell phone AND beeper??

Remember back in the day when there were no bank machines? You had to actually go into the bank (or through the drive thru if your bank had one) and talk to a teller to get cash or transact any business.

Remember the day when 7-11 was called that because they opened at 7am and closed at 11pm and they were the only store that was open those hours?

Remember the day when the 3 or 4 (3 national + one local) TV stations stopped their programming around midnight and just showed a flag waving and played the star spangled banner until their programming began again the next morning?

Remember the day when you had to actually lock/unlock your car door with a key and there was not even any cruise control?

Remember gas lines?

Remember going to the drive in with friends and hiding at least 2 people in the trun****il you got in?

Remember the day when what we now see in movies rated 'R' would have easily been rated 'X'? (I freely admit to being a prude)

Remember the day when soda was a huge treat, as were all fast foods? And speaking of fast foods, your only choices were pretty much MacDonalds, Burger King and sometimes Jack in the Box. And remember the day when fast food places would not take credit cards?

Remember the day when the cashier at the grocery store had to key in the price of each of your items because there were no bar codes?

Remember when your choices of ice cream were basically chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. And then remember how excited we were when Baskin Robbins came along?

Remember when you actually sent letters? And Christmas Cards?

Remember learning to type on an actual typewriter? With a carriage return and no automatic centering? And you had to use white strips or white out to erase any mistakes?

Remember when most adults smoked and one of the most popular candies for kids were those packages of candy cigarettes? We thought we were so cool....

Remember 8-track tape players and 8-track tapes?

Remember when the Avon lady used to go door to door?

Remember the day when nobody knew enough to care about eating too much butter or salt or basically anything regarding food. We just ate what was put in front of us, or whatever our Mom's could afford.

Remember when frozen dinners were called "TV dinners" and were baked for 1/2 hour in the oven, then eaten on TV trays while watching TV with the fam?

Wowza Nik. You've got me on a roll. I must be feeling nostalgic...


edited because one thing I can't remember is back in the day when I used to be able to spell.

Remember back in the day when each desk had an ink well.  No ball point pens. 

I am not old enough to remember this, but my husband told me about it.

Remember back to the day when cigarettes were .20 for a pack?

Remember back to the day when a good allowance was $1.00 a week.

Remember back to a day when kids never called an adult by their first name, and yes sir and no sir were expected responses from a child.

Remember when prayer was allowed in school? 

Remember when you used a slide rule, not a calculator?
Remember black and white TV?  To get color TV you put a plastic thing on the screen...blue at the top for sky and green at the bottom for grass....too bad if there were faces, not landscape on your TV!
Remember brown and white saddle shoes?
Remember, and I loved these!....TV dinners in the foil trays!  The chicken and potatoes and corn were sooo good!
Remember the folks watching Ed Sullivan and Lawrence Welk and his bubble machine?
Anybody remember when you could get HUGE dill pickles from a barrel in the local store, 2  for a nickel? A loaf of bread was a nickel and a full pound of real butter was 15 cents. (Don't know why I remember that!)
My first job I got paid $1.50 an hour...in 1971.

I remember when the definition of "Gas Crisis" was we could only get gas on odd days and only 5 gallons max, if they had that much.

Kids today have no clue what a real crisis is, it may be 5 bucks a gallon but I can get it everyday and as much as I want. Yea Im old and cranky! hehe!