This is one for those 40+

[mjs9153]

Now you are supposed to purchase special drinking water hoses if want to drink out of them. How did we ever survive?

We drank straight from the faucet in the janitors closet just off the lockerroom after summer football practice,where you could lose about ten pounds of fluid during the heat of the day..the water was ice cold,and the faucet had a larger spout,so in seconds you would be filled from your distended belly to the top of the throat,and squelched off in soaked uniform and spikes for round two later that day..

 

[thekidd12]

Not everyone got a trophy and we somehow survived.

Sorry could only like this once...

Short story. hopefully. When my oldest son began playing rec baseball the director of such had just made it mandatory that all players received "participation" trophies. My son has two in his case. I say two because I was elected to be director of rec ball after those two years. There is one year, around age 7, when he did not receive a trophy of any kind as the new director put an end to such shenanigans. From then until 12 years of age his case is full of first and second place trophies that somehow are in front of those "participation" things.

My response to those who objected to abolishment of "unearned" bangles being given out? I offered each parent who complained that year $3 so they could go buy their children plastic gold figures for their little ones. No one took me up on it.

Many ended up playing for me. I doubled as a coach, sometimes for three different age groups.

I had 27 players from those 5 years go on to play high school ball and almost every one of them told me they appreciated the lesson of earning what you get.

OK was not that short was it?

 

[dsurrett]

We heard it as the 10 o'clock news came on - "It's ten o'clock. Do you know where your children are?"
The only time that TV was on all night was for the Jerry Lewis Telethon.

 

[dsurrett]

At the bakery you could ask them to slice a loaf for you using the bread slicer machine!

You can still do that at Publix.

 

[Spideyman]

You can still do that at Publix.

My favorite store. Meat department has good staff too. Good to see you back on MB!!

 

[Doc Creed]

Meat department has good staff too.

Yes, they do. Outstanding service. Incidentally, I need to check and see if they have any country style backbones coming in; they're hard to find with bones...everything is boneless, these days. Anyway, they are delicious slowcooked in the oven with barbecue sauce.

 

[Doc Creed]

We heard it as the 10 o'clock news came on - "It's ten o'clock. Do you know where your children are?"
The only time that TV was on all night was for the Jerry Lewis Telethon.

Welcome back. Roll Tide!

 

[Spideyman]

Yes, they do. Outstanding service. Incidentally, I need to check and see if they have any country style backbones coming in; they're hard to find with bones...everything is boneless, these days. Anyway, they are delicious slowcooked in the oven with barbecue sauce.

Ask the head of meat department. My store will special order, even small orders.

 

[Sundrop]

Sorry could only like this once...

Short story. hopefully. When my oldest son began playing rec baseball the director of such had just made it mandatory that all players received "participation" trophies. My son has two in his case. I say two because I was elected to be director of rec ball after those two years. There is one year, around age 7, when he did not receive a trophy of any kind as the new director put an end to such shenanigans. From then until 12 years of age his case is full of first and second place trophies that somehow are in front of those "participation" things.

My response to those who objected to abolishment of "unearned" bangles being given out? I offered each parent who complained that year $3 so they could go buy their children plastic gold figures for their little ones. No one took me up on it.

Many ended up playing for me. I doubled as a coach, sometimes for three different age groups.

I had 27 players from those 5 years go on to play high school ball and almost every one of them told me they appreciated the lesson of earning what you get.

OK was not that short was it?

 

[GNTLGNT]

 

[DiO'Bolic]

 

[Doc Creed]

Not everyone got a trophy and we somehow survived.

 

[Grandpa]

To go with that:

 

[Paddy C]

Walking to the other side of town to call in to friends only to find they'd already gone out!

 

[arista]

The original text message was a note written on piece of paper and sent to an individual in class.

 

[Sundrop]

The original text message was a note written on piece of paper and sent to an individual in class.

Often passed from one side of the room to the other via classmates while the teacher's back was turned.

 

[thekidd12]

Second 8 track tape I ever had was The Eagles Greatest Hits...

Halfway through Already Gone you had to take tape out of player and flip it over...

To this day whenever I hear that song I think there is supposed to be a pause in it.

 

[thekidd12]

The original text message was a note written on piece of paper and sent to an individual in class.

Ah...

Check yes, no, or maybe...

Once upon a time the most exciting, embarrassing thing a 12 year old boy could ever get...

Now they can find pictures of nekkid individuals, on that devil invented thing they always have their nose in, anytime they want...

 

[DiO'Bolic]

To go with that:

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Thankfully I didn’t need to fart around with those things for too long. My father (veteran of the D-Day invasion) thought it was blasphemy for me to play that damn rock and roll music on his stereo console... which was reserved for the likes of Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller.

So he ‘bought’ me my very own stereo when I was quite young one Christmas. Actually, he redeemed his Phillies cigar bands for a cheap stereo from some new Japanese company that had recently entered the US market... Sony. It actually played as good as US stereos, but I was laughed at by my friends for my cheap Japanese stereo. (Mom collected Green Stamps).

And another present that Christmas was a 45 rpm adapter that fit onto the stereo and allowed you to load multiple 45’s that came down onto the record player after each record finished.

Also, the paper route didn’t allow me much money to buy 45’s. So being a resourceful kid of 9, I taped both songs that were played every The Monkees TV show when it first aired... with dad’s 25 pound ‘portable’ reel to reel recorder.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Second 8 track tape I ever had was The Eagles Greatest Hits...

Halfway through Already Gone you had to take tape out of player and flip it over...

To this day whenever I hear that song I think there is supposed to be a pause in it.

I monkey rigged an 8 track into my 1960 Corvair. But the electronics in the car seemed like 40's technology. So the speed of play on the 8 track depended on how fast I was driving. 40 mph seemed to be the ideal speed for good listening. To this day I still expect David Bowie's Diamond Dogs to play with both fast and slow parts.