Material Things of Which the Younger Generation Has No Idea

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Book stores.

Beer cans that had to be opened with a pull tab. Or even older, beer cans that required a pointy can opener to punch a hole in them. Those were the days ...

It seems to me, that somebody already mentioned this----but, just-in-case they DIDN'T.....

Doctors, who made house-calls.

(LOL My mother told her doctor, one time, that it hurt when she did something [I can't remember what it was----something to do with her arm], and the doctor said "Don't do that, then"----SERIOUSLY. LOL I mean, I've heard that line in several movies, but.....)

Seems like we've lost the momentum on this thread, but that could be because all of us "older" folks have forgotten why we came into this room.

Ok what was this called- it was a cardboard tube you looked into and when you twisted it, it made different patterns in the end?

School where you sad the Pledge of Allegiance every morning and started with a prayer.

Now something I never had done to me, but getting a spanking from the principal and another when you got home from Dad. (I wasn't a perfect little angel as a kid, but not bad enough to get a spanking.)

Kaleidoscope? I wish I had one right now!

I'll admit Maryland isn't quite the Bible belt, but by the time I was in High School (74-76), taking an English class on the Bible as Literature, was a little controversial.

Thank you, justkillingtime, I just could not remember that earlier.

This is like the opposite because we didn't have them when I was a kid, but they now have parking spaces for seniors as and pregnant women as well as handicapped. My mother thinks the pregnancy spaces are stupid and stereotypical. They're usually pink with a picture of a stork or a baby carriage, and my mom says when she was expecting both my brother and me she did everything she did normally (as long as it was safe!), and doesn't think pregnant women should be treated like they're delicate or like invalids or something.

I guess it's been such a long time since she's had a baby she doesn't remember much what it's like, especially not long before childbirth. She even parks in these spaces! I really hope some heavily pregnant women doesn't show up and come after mom. Or maybe I do hope so.

On the other hand, she has no problem parking in senior's spaces even though they show a stereotypical picture of two elderly people with canes walking bent over. My mother is in her 60's but she doesn't seem old to me at all.

Sorry I agree with your mom on that one. Unless you've got complications that would qualify you for a temporary disabled permit, advanced pregnancy is an inconvenience, not a disability. Dragging your great big 38-weeks-pregnant self across the parking lot is a PITA, not a risk to your well-being.

Even if it's a WalMart parking lot in South Florida in June. Been there, done that (with an unairconditioned van). That was ONE EASY LABOR. Didn't even feel pain from contractions until she was crowning. Granted, she was my fourth and I guess at that point it bears more resemblance to dropping a watermelon than squeezing one out of a hole the size of a lemon...

Also granted that correlation does not imply causation...

But, comparing that to my first delivery (two and a half days of agony that culminated in my uterus becoming too exhausted to push the baby out, thus requiring that they jam a suction cup up my vagina and yank her out), I think I'll take the hike across the parking lot. EVERY TIME.

Still glad those spaces are there, though. It's a sweet gesture.

Ande's Mints

Also, the packs of Baseball cards with the flat piece of bubble gum, inside. I loved the flavor of that gum! I can still taste it when I think about it.

Pickup Sticks

Bomb Pops

(although, I think all of the above are still in existence, so, not sure if they qualify for this topic)

hmmm, what else....?

The Jacks game with a little ball and five or ten "jacks".