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

Its funny. When I was a kid, on weekends my best friends mom would send us to the store with a note and some money to buy smokes for her, and it was never a problem. With the change we went to the local video store, which had a deal, rent two games get the 3rd free, and they had snack boxes too and we were set for the weekend

My High School had a smoking section for students behind the Cafeteria and my teachers drank booze and smoked cigs in the staff lounge

Not as far back as childhood, more recent but before widespread use of voice mail. Answering machines would say "leave you message at the beep (or tone)" or something similar. I don't think anybody says that anymore. We all know there will be a beep or tone.

People weren't glued to phones all the time when I was a kid. I'm not old, either. My childhood was basically right in that last little window of time before phones took over everybody's lives. I didn't get my first cell phone until I was 18.

I miss when people weren't texting every second of every day. Believe it or not, the world will not end if people can't reach you for a little while.

Going to Safeway after school to play Pacman for 25 cents.

Up until Jr. High girls were not allowed to wear pants.

In my teens in the 1980's Dr. Ruth Westheimer had a radio show where she talked with callers just about sex questions.

Considered taboo talk for the time, it was a big hit.

I remember one caller who started by saying "During masterbation, I ran out of my lubricant, so I used some motor oil-" Westheimer quickly cut him off "I have no interest in motor oil"

Our family had a place on a river and we would stay there all summer and my dad would just commute back and forth to work. I had a small aluminum boat with a 20 hp motor when I was around 13 or 14. I was allowed to be gone all day fishing or whatever. I would NEVER allow my kids to do that.