I don’t spend any time around children anymore, so I don’t know for sure, but it seems like they never just take off running just because it feels good, or even because they want to get somewhere fast. I saw a kid do that in a 70s movie recently and it made me realize that I never see that anymore. Do kids still run for the fun of it?
Holy poo. come to my neck of the woods. My dirt roads are utter and complete shit thanks to the big ass snow storm that hit last weekend and melted on MOnday. Two of the three directions I take to get somewhere are near impassable.
I see a dirt road every day. And usually I like it.
Okay, my dad found a Thing You Just Don’t See Much Anymore this afternoon when he was cleaning out the basement. It was a big rectangular piece of clear plastic, tinted blue along one edge, green along the other, and kind of orangey in the middle.
This (he explained) is what people used to put over the screens of their black and white TV sets to give the illusion of color.
Raincoats. I seldom ever see people wearing raincoats anymore. Umbrellas aplenty, poking and gouging other people but no one seems to care about getting their lower bits wet. Either that or they just dash from building to car to building when it rains.
Maybe this is a regional thing but, See-Saws are the things y’all are talking about, (big plank with handles, goes up and down). Teeter-Totter’s, are the 2-seats with handles, things that swing back and forth, usually found on a swingset.
Cloth diapers. New moms these days shake their heads in disbelief when I describe getting up at 5 am each day to wash 3 dozen and hang them on the line before heading off to college.
Plus they make dandy cleaning rags when the babies are thru with them.
They’re making a comeback now. People are realizing they’re much cheaper in the long run. And there are diaper services so you don’t have to do all that washing.
I used cloth nappies. My baby turns 21 in two months and I’m still using those ole nappies as dusters. Of course, that may say more about how much dusting I do than the quality of the cloth.
They still have them in Thailand, battered almost translucent from years of recycling - I actually brought back a couple of the old “nekkid lady” Coke bottles, one empty and one full, as souvenirs. You see those things in antique stores now, but I remember a misspent childhood pinching from people’s gardens and taking them to the dairy to exchange for lollies.
Funny when some things come up on here… I was camping over the long weekend and we came across a playground while on an evening stroll, so of course we tested all the equipment. There was a seesaw, to our great delight!
Men wearing hats (fedoras, pork pie hats, knit caps) with suits and other “nicer” clothes. I say this because I’m looking for a nice hat, and nobody has any for sale, not even the men’s sections in the larger department stores. I hate ball caps, and I think people look stupid wearing them if they’re not playing sports or at a tailgate party or something.