Remember when ....

[Magicman]

We never had a TV nor a telephone when I was growing up.  It was sorta funny that I had never had a telephone and went to work for the telephone company. 

[barbender]

 Haha Don, I didn't have you figured for the brawlin' type😁 

 That's a really bad feeling when you administer the kill shot and they don't even flinch. In wilder times, I gave a guy a good flurry of fists to the face while he told me, "you better hit me harder than that!" So I know the sinking feeling...😂

[Southside]

And we would go to school with the gun in the rack.

I can remember setting my rifle in the corner of the cafeteria one morning as I was running late and didn't have time to put it into my buddies truck and still get breakfast.  I would park my truck down the road from the school and hunt through the woods to get there, never got a deer that way but sure tried plenty of times.  

[SawyerTed]

In 1972 gas was $0.38 a gallon.  I had an old metal turpentine can I would carry on my bike to get gas.  Fifty cents would get a gallon of gas and 3 pieces of Double Bubble bubble gum.  I usually made the trip twice a week. 

A gallon of gas would fill the lawn mower tank a couple of times which would be enough to earn $3 or $4 mowing yards.  Or a gallon of gas would power the Banshee mini bike for a week.  

We could ride mini bikes on the road to the trails "in the woods."   The police didn't really care as long as we were going between our houses and the trails.  

I also remember when pedal bikes had banana seats and sissy bars.  I could ride a wheelie as far as the road or cars would permit.  I never could ride a unicycle, go figure.  Now I'm disturbed if I have to stand on the pedals of my fat tire beach cruiser to climb a hill.