Children of the 70s and 80s

deadendp · March 2015

Malroth said:
on long car trips, there were three kids, one would sleep on the floorboard, one on the seat, the other on the ledge in the back window.

We did this! Actually, two of us were on the floor. One from one direction and one from the other direction. This is probably why I can sleep anywhere.

Did anyone mention riding in the back of the truck on the side? (Not the inside of the bed.) We never fell off. And yes, that was while driving down the road.

The door didn't latch right on one of the cars and when my mom pulled out of my grandparent's driveway, I slid across the vinyl backseat and almost out the door. (No seatbelts were worn.) My sister grabbed me or I would have landed on the roadway or into the neighbor's mailbox post.

HesCalledDyer · March 2015

School wasn't called off based soley on the FORECAST of snow. It had to actually snow and there had to be significant accumulation. Most of the time, we'd go to school as it was snowing and, if anything, we'd get dismissed early.
I can't tell you how many times in recent years that school has been called off when its 42 and raining...all because they forecast snow the day before.

Wobbie · March 2015

nowadays, the SUVs line up to drop off and pick up little jimmy and sally at school. I either walked or rode my bike to school everyday from 1st grade until I bought and paid $350 for my first car...then, I was hot shit, and drove.

RKCNDY · March 2015

They never called off school for snow...I remember waiting 2 hours for the bus, then I remember a different bus showing up, they packed us on there, so there were 2 bus routes full of kids on one bus, lots of us were standing, and then the bus got stuck in snow traffic for 2½ hours...when we FINALLY got to the school, they decided, "oh, school is closed now because half the teachers can't make it in"

Kids these days probably will never ever hear a dial tone or a busy signal. Do they even know how a touch-tone or rotary phone works?

rr165892 · March 2015

Hell we still got paddled in the deans office.Good times.

Did anyone see they are reworking The Breakfast Club for theatrical encores.Now a whole new generation will get a glimpse.

RKCNDY · March 2015

Did you go to catholic school rr? or was it public school?

ldent42 · March 2015

have u seen the video where they give kids walkmans? lol

rr165892 · March 2015

Public school(Palm Beach County) for all but 9&10th grade.That was private school years but non religious,then back to glory of Florida public schools.Class of 86

RKCNDY · March 2015

ldent42 said:
have u seen the video where they give kids walkmans? lol

yes! so funny! "how much music fits on this thing!?!?!?"

rr165892 said:
Public school(Palm Beach County) for all but 9&10th grade.That was private school years but non religious,then back to glory of Florida public schools.Class of 86

ah...Mr RK is the same class as you...I believe he said he got paddled too, public school.
Think they got rid of paddling by the time I got to school, though I do remember the teacher sitting on a kid who wouldn't calm down. He was a big kid and she was a large lady as well...it was kinda funny at the time.

rr165892 · March 2015

He's obviously a man of great style and taste.lol
We also had the privilege of partying with some of our teachers.Smoking pot and drinking was not unheard of with certain faculty members.Had a PE coach host a party and about 7 kids puked wine coolers into his shag carpet.We had to run laps the following Monday as punishment.My how times change
I also remember In middle school my dad was shtooping my Art teacher.(My folks were divorced)That was a bit odd going to class every day.Good times

RKCNDY · March 2015

ahahahhahahahha!!!!

I remember in jr. high, the teacher would always give the guy behind be goo-goo eyes. He was a 9th grader in the 7th grade English class. We all figured they were getting it on.

Then in High School, my English teacher was such a ditz, she would wear super short big bird yellow shorts...the kids talked about her being a lush and hiding wine in her filing cabinet. She suddenly changed her name one year, and it turned out she married some kid's dad...he was one of those kids that never did his homework, always skipped class...it was weird. Maybe that's why he always skipped class.

rr165892 · March 2015

I'm sure the boys in class were fine with the yellow shorts.

RKCNDY · March 2015

She kinda looked like:

northerndragon · March 2015

deadendp said:

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Malroth said:
on long car trips, there were three kids, one would sleep on the floorboard, one on the seat, the other on the ledge in the back window.
We did this! Actually, two of us were on the floor. One from one direction and one from the other direction. This is probably why I can sleep anywhere.

Did anyone mention riding in the back of the truck on the side? (Not the inside of the bed.) We never fell off. And yes, that was while driving down the road.

The door didn't latch right on one of the cars and when my mom pulled out of my grandparent's driveway, I slid across the vinyl backseat and almost out the door. (No seatbelts were worn.) My sister grabbed me or I would have landed on the roadway or into the neighbor's mailbox post.

Riding in the back of the pickup was sooooo much fun, especially if the tail gate was down and we got to sit on that

I don't think safety first was a phrase back then.

frozenwithsalt · March 2015

OP couldn't have said it any better. During the summer I'd leave the house right after breakfast on my bike, my bathing suit and pool pass in my basket and enough change to go to Winns and get some popcorn, slushy and maybe a pack of garbage pail kids. Then all the kids would head to one of our houses for lunch and stay out until night when our moms were yelling down the street for us. We could run like the wind, had sleep overs, did pizza pranks and watched r rated movies when parents were at work.

Then came Nintendo. Everyone got fat and spent their days staring at screens...

Wobbie · March 2015

we used to get paddled in front of everyone in an assembly....it was like throwing gladiators to the lions.

rr165892 said:
Hell we still got paddled in the deans office.Good times.

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rollings · March 2015

Malroth said:
on long car trips, there were three kids, one would sleep on the floorboard, one on the seat, the other on the ledge in the back window.

I remember that ledge.

one night in particular, my dad in probably about 1974 packed the family up at night to spontaneously go visit relatives in New Jersey, us from Pennsylvania. I remember our dog throwing up and us doing a short mile back to drop said dog , Pinky, back off with Grammy.

Along the New Jersey turnpike I remember "moon river" was playing, and !Look! ....up above was the full moon

....which my 6-year old self looked up at...

from the ledge.

that was the best

RKCNDY · March 2015

I remember hot summer days, and having to remember to bring a towel to sit on or I'd burn my rush on the hot vinyl seats of the ol' blue Pacer (yes, just like the one in Wayne's World-minus the flames)...'course I'd slide all over the place in the back because it was a bench seat and we didn't wear seat belts back then. Going around a corner...wheeee!

Hobbes · March 2015

We had a station wagon. Wood paneling. CB radio. The family truckster. On long road trips, my sis and I would stretch out in the way back, watching the world whiz by through that huuuuge rear window.

There was a teacher in elementary school that paddled his students. I never had him. The one I remember had a jug of red wine in his bottom desk drawer. He would "discretely" fill his coffee mug. He was an awesome teacher; a poet.

Nothing better than dropping off my school books, grabbing my bike, and being gone for hours til sundown; home for dinner. Ma never worried where I had been.

RKCNDY · March 2015

My shop teacher always drank cold coffee from a gross old plastic 7-11 cup. Some of the kids said he put vodka in there, that's why it was cold.

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