Say something about your childhood that seems old fashioned/ridiculous by today's standards

I walked home from school alone.

Was a latchkey kid.

Actually played outside with the neighborhood kids. We either rode bikes/big wheels, played freeze tag, ghost in the graveyard, or spent all our money at the corner store.

Would always hug my hot kindergarten teacher so I could nuzzle my head into her tits.

None of these things can happen today. Especially kids playing outside and being active.

When I was in high school during the 1960's I wore hair rollers to bed every night. No blow drys or curling irons back then and I probably went through a can of hairspray each week.

We had rotary phones and black & white TVs.
It cost a whopping 15 cents to ride the bus or subway in N.Y.C.
My mailing address included the words, "Zone 65." In the mid 60's that changed to 11365 when zip codes were introduced.
Once a month we had to dive under our school desks for protection during bombing drills.
Yeah right, as if a little wooden school desk could protect you from the effects of an atomic bomb.

Most of us boys roamed the streets all day on our bikes, owned Air pistols, slingshots and bows and were told by Our moms to come home when the streetlights started coming on...that would probably get moms arrested for neglect OR endangerment these days LOL

Gasoline cost about 30 cents per gallon. I was too young to drive, but old enough to walk or bike to places by myself, and there was a gas station just down the street when I and my friends would stop for soft drinks, chewing gum, etc.

We were allowed to roam all over town, unaccompanied, as long as we were home for dinner. No self-respecting kid would let his parents tag along on Halloween night.

Most households in the USA did not have cable TV, but were limited to whatever could be picked up with an antenna. We had cable, which meant we had about a dozen stations to pick from; the three big networks, PBS, plus a handful of low budget independent stations of the variety whose fare consisted of reruns of Gilligan's Island, Star Trek, and other such shows, and repeated re-airings of old movies like Tarantula and Creature From The Black Lagoon.

That was on an ordinary day. But there was one weekend per year when TV universally sucked ass. Labor Day weekend. Jerry Lewis ran his annual telethon for muscular dystrophy on that weekend, and he managed to get virtually every television network and station to carry the entirety of it. A worthy enough cause, but for three days out of the year there was nothing else on the tube.

There were still places in the USA that you couldn't dial directly but had to get the operator to place the call. And I had to make a phone call to England once, for a school project. It took twenty minutes to place the call, and it went through four different operators.

They would actually give free cigarettes outside my high school (long before the 90s).

It was long before cell phones. You could randomly knock on any door and ask to use their phone. Strangers would let you in to use the phone to make your call.

And from a machine