# Things you miss **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 10, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724 "2009-01-10T22:41:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/21 "2009-01-11T16:33:59Z")
More than anything I guess I miss my first horse, Star. Being able to go out for a long ride, bareback, just me and my horse, was the most mind-clearing thing I have ever known. When I galloped him across an open field, I could feel the stress of the every-day draining out of me, into him, down thru his legs, to be left far behind us. I miss putting my arms around his neck and just leaning on him, smelling that sweet horse-smell, feeling his velvet muzzle against my cheek, gently wuffing hay-scented breath on me. I miss hearing his nickered huh-huh-huh in greeting. Love you Star. Miss you, boy. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Karyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karyn)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/22 "2009-01-11T16:42:32Z")
These things still exist, but not here in central CA. I miss New York bagels, pizza and egg creams because the ones out here are pale imitations at best. I miss Fall colors a lot too. I miss Dead tour even though I’m probably too old to enjoy it now anyway. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/23 "2009-01-11T18:23:58Z")
I miss living in NYC. I miss all of my former cats. I miss not being diabetic. I miss having health insurance . . . and not needing it. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/24 "2009-01-11T19:33:16Z")
Local independent TV stations that produced their own programming. Now, I will admit that the Louisville KY market TV has done pretty good with local news & even human interest (gardening on WHAS, local issues discussion on WAVE, area churches on WHAS), but there’s no local regular variety shows, wrestling, kids cartoons shows, daytime or late-night movies- especially of the “horror host” variety. And there was TONS of that stuff when I was a kid & even into my teens- till about the mid-1980s. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/25 "2009-01-11T19:39:20Z")
On the sentimental side: Grandmom, Grandad & Dad (Dad would have LOVED the Net!!!) Our dog Lady My hamster Anthony Some college & grad school buds Some early Internet chat pals ```auto Personal health: Non-arthritic knees Having the will & the energy to get involved in church & community activities (Yeah, if I lost weight, the previous two might fix themselves but to do that, I need the will & the energy & so it goes...) ``` ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/26 "2009-01-11T19:41:48Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > The Scholastic Books flyer, offering books for sale to school children, that I would run home with, read feverishly marking off my choices, and returning it to the teacher with money from my mother. Is it still around? I hope so, for a big reader like me, it was heaven. I do believe it is. When I drove past the Elementary School the other day, I saw a Scholastic Books truck sitting out front. I was almost tempted to stop & ask if they carried fliers I could have or had any extra books to sell. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/27 "2009-01-11T19:45:21Z")
I miss something. I can’t quite put my finger on what it is, but I definitely miss it. ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/28 "2009-01-11T20:06:56Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > The Scholastic Books flyer, offering books for sale to school children, that I would run home with, read feverishly marking off my choices, and returning it to the teacher with money from my mother. Is it still around? I hope so, for a big reader like me, it was heaven. Still around, at least in Canada. My kid brings one home every month or so, tells me what he really wants, and gives me the option of ordering more for him. I miss pop in glass bottles, pulled out of one of those old coolers with cold water in them. ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/29 "2009-01-11T20:15:11Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > The Sunshine Biscuit Company used to make the Golden Fruit Biscuit, or Garibaldi Biscuit, a bland pair of glazed biscuits with a raisin filling. They tasted ‘meh’, not good, not bad, but I sometimes get a craving. I remember those, but I _really_ miss Lemon Coolers, also by Sunshine. That tart lemon-y goodness and the gigantic amounts of ultra fine, cocaine-like powdered sugar…mmmmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/30 "2009-01-11T20:25:28Z")
Lemon Coolers dammit. I’m not even much of a cookie eater but I could nearly devour a whole box in one sitting. When Nabisco bought out Sunshine, Lemon Coolers were one of the first casualties. They were the perfect combination of tangy and sweet. It’s been over five years and I’m still bitter about it to the point of actually actively seeking out alternatives to Nabisco products. I’ll second **overlyverbose** about bonfires. Mid September thru all of October was prime bonfire weather. Even if I wanted to do a bonfire with some old friends we sure couldn’t do it in the same area we used to. The area is now an endless sea of strip malls and Mcmansions. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/31 "2009-01-11T20:32:53Z")
I miss an existence without 24hr rolling news and govornment sponsored fear-mongering. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/32 "2009-01-11T20:40:26Z")
I miss my Grandma’s back yard. It was perfect, with neatly mowed lawn, flowerbeds, a vegetable garden with tomatoes and cucumbers, a long clothesline for drying, a simple porchswing, and one good sized tree with branches at the perfect height and spacing for climbing. There was a detached garage, with a '66 Plymouth Dart in it, that looked factory new when she sold it in 1984. I miss the Johnson Shut-Ins. Yeah, they’re trying to rebuild it, but they’re leaving out the campgrounds, and it’ll never be the same again anyway, not without a few hundred years of nature to “smooth things out.” And it was destroyed for nothing more than the greed and incompetence of man. I miss V-8 powered muscle cars and AM radio, with a cold Coke made the way it was. I too miss the smell of burning leaves in the autumn. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/33 "2009-01-11T20:42:14Z")
Costco (big discount warehouse type of store) has this berry smoothie you can get for maybe $1.50. Oh my Og, is that thing delicious. The berry flavor and the texture and feel of the ice…it’s orgasmic. I’m sure they still have it, but I haven’t had occasion to go to Costco in a long time. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/34 "2009-01-11T20:55:52Z")
Lost loved ones, Goldberg’s Peanut Chews, Trader Joe’s Ginger Ale, proper station wagons, half empty airplanes, cheap prescriptions and my jaw line from 10 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/35 "2009-01-12T00:02:02Z")
Diet Cel-Ray. My grandmother’s cooking (except for her fish-head soup). A place and time when you never had to lock the doors. Blueberry or banana popsicles. My mother, in the kitchen, singing along with old standards on the radio. Paris. Vienna. Barcelona. Amsterdam. Florence. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/36 "2009-01-12T01:25:18Z")
Being able to walk around the neighborhood all the time, even if I had to bring a few groceries back, because the store was practically across the street from the house. I could always stop at the store on my way home from wherever. I’ve moved now, and there are places I can walk to in my new neighborhood, but all the stores are at least a half mile away. So almost anything and everything is too big or too heavy for me to carry home, and I’m taking the car a lot more than I used to. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/37 "2009-01-12T06:00:35Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Diet Cel-Ray. > > My grandmother’s cooking (except for her fish-head soup). > > A place and time when you never had to lock the doors. > > Blueberry or banana popsicles. > > My mother, in the kitchen, singing along with old standards on the radio. > > Paris. Vienna. Barcelona. Amsterdam. Florence. Blue Bunny makes banana popsicles. I can finish a box in one evening! ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/38 "2009-01-12T06:13:07Z")
I miss difference, the feeling that every new place I visited was strange and exotic. I don’t just mean countries, I mean towns, parts of towns. It’s partly down to my perception of things changing and partly down to the steamroller of globalised homogenisation. I miss not needing a mobile phone. I miss my friends, they used to all live in the same town as me, now I’m the last one left. I miss my dad. Everytime I leave it, I miss Galway City. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/39 "2009-01-12T06:23:40Z")
My grandparent’s farm. Love’s Baby Soft–the stuff these days just doesn’t smell the same. Scholastic Book Fairs. This foundation from Coty that had just the smallest amount of powder that made it less likely to slide off, didn’t cake and actually matched my skin. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724/40 "2009-01-12T08:39:28Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > 1. Single screen movie theaters. I loved the big screen. The really big screen, in theaters that had real balconies. I do like the new theater seating, but most of the new theaters have so many screens in them that the experience is just not the same. Often, I can hear the movie in the room next to the one I’m sitting in. I wonder how many kids have never had a true “Big Screen” experience. These still exist, albeit to a smaller degree I reckon. It’s called IMAX–huge screen, great sound, and generally only one theater. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/480724.md?page=3)