# Conveniences from your childhood which were were actually more convenient than today **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 20, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conveniences-from-your-childhood-which-were-were-actually-more-convenient-than-today/365320 "2006-07-20T12:52:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conveniences-from-your-childhood-which-were-were-actually-more-convenient-than-today/365320/121 "2006-07-25T14:32:40Z")
[QUOTE=BMalion] Also the security was limited to sometimes keeping an eye out for someone actually carrying a bazooka. You could show up 20 minutes before your flight and be pretty sure you’d make it before the door closed. Now if you don’t arrive 2 hours before boarding you’re sweating bullets hoping to not miss your flight. [/QUOTE] Shit… this wasn’t “back in the day”. At Love Field in Dallas, if you’d printed your boarding pass on Southwest’s website, you could roll up to security with about 15 minutes before your flight, and still have to wait at the gate. You could do this right up until 9/11/01, at which point the Chicken-Littles took over, and now it’s a colossal pain in the ass to fly between Dallas and say… Houston. As for the bulk food bins…beyond Brach’s candies, they’re not terribly common in your average Kroger or Albertsons around here, but EVERY specialty/gourmet store has quite the selection of bulk stuff- Whole foods and HEB Central Market come to mind. As for me, the one that irritates me is razor blades. Back when I was younger (I’m only 33), you could get Trac-2 or Sensor/Sensor Excel blades for a reasonable price. Somewhere along the line, they’ve added a zillion blades and jacked the price up to somewhere near $2 per blade, and with really dubious results. I don’t notice much difference between old Sensor Excel blades and Mach 3 blades, and sure don’t like paying so much for them. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conveniences-from-your-childhood-which-were-were-actually-more-convenient-than-today/365320/122 "2006-07-25T14:54:15Z")
[QUOTE=Lissa] I just hate the term “identity theft” when it’s really “credit card fraud.” The cynic in me insists that it’s the credit card corporations repackaging it to make it appear the _consumer_ is at risk of losing money, not them. That way, they can sell us “identity theft insurance” and get us to cover their losses. [/QUOTE] Aw, you broke the code! ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conveniences-from-your-childhood-which-were-were-actually-more-convenient-than-today/365320/123 "2006-07-26T02:17:13Z")
[QUOTE=fessie] \ - MTV used to show, like, non-pornographic videos of music \ [/QUOTE] Ha - MTV used to show videos! And there was only one MTV! ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conveniences-from-your-childhood-which-were-were-actually-more-convenient-than-today/365320/124 "2006-07-26T13:37:06Z")
[QUOTE=Achren] Ha - MTV used to show videos! And there was only one MTV! [/QUOTE] and it was only on from noon to 10pm or so. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conveniences-from-your-childhood-which-were-were-actually-more-convenient-than-today/365320/125 "2006-07-27T19:12:14Z")
Three pages and nobody has mentioned _WATER_? The stuff you use to get by turning on the faucet. Today a walk down a store’s water aisle will make you dizzy. 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conveniences-from-your-childhood-which-were-were-actually-more-convenient-than-today/365320.md?page=6)