Back in my day
Spam was lunch meat not email. Social networking was called going outside. Add your own
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shareYahoo meant smuck or putz.
Fist fights weren’t considered an act of violence, they were just a way of solving problems.
The world was void of obnoxious words like gluten-free, selfie, and pansexual.
Fist fights at school were common, they earned you a trip to the Principal's office and a stern talking to, no phone call to a lawyer needed
And when you got shoved around by a bully you fought the guy
Win or lose you got respect
Nobody shot up the school over it...the world does seem to have gone off the rails sometimes:/
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shareDuring nice weather we played outside all day long, roamed all over on our bikes, and came home at dinnertime when we heard the six o'clock whistle (the town siren). In the summer when it stayed light later, we stayed out until the streetlights came on. And some nights we got to stay outside even later after dark and play a game we called "midnight."
We didn't have the internet and had "pen pals" if you wanted to communicate with someone that was too far or too expensive to call on the phone. These letters could take a few days to a week or more to arrive to them so rather than one liners like we do online or gifs/emoji's etc that mean little you had to actually write something of value that was also worthy of that person responding to and spending the money to send it back to you.
When I was about 15, I had a true French pen pal. I can't remember where she lived, but it wasn't in Paris. She was a student like I was, and we wrote to each other as part of our language classes. Part of the letter had to be written in French, part in English. I think her English was better than my French.
shareI had a French pen pal as well, she was somewhere rural, I don't recall now. We only wrote in English but didn't really click. I was about 14 and gave up responding after a couple of letters. I had plenty of others though, my favourite was this girl who would write these weird cryptic poem type letters and I would respond in kind. Pretty trippy but fun. I had another one where we would write 5 plus pages to each other and we both liked music and writing songs so we would write song lyrics together via mail.
shareEuropean Interrail was incredibly popular. Having the pass, you barely needed to spend any more money (food, laundry, that's it). Nobody spent money in hostels or inns, and that made travelling very cheap.
You just slept in the Train or in the Train Station. It was completely safe.
Your grandma's icebox was full of stringbean casserole and she gave you soda crackers to cure an upset stomach.
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