Kids these days will never know….

[CDGator]

My wife and kids would not be as thrilled about the idea as the rest of us. Alas, my wife is an absolute smoke show and one of the coolest chicks you could ever meet. She watches sports and screams at the TV, chugs beer with my boys, cracks dck and fart jokes with the best of em, has a masters degree and successful real estate career, amazing mom, shags like an absolute minx. There's no one else out there that could measure up. I absolutely crushed it in the marriage department

Sounds like it all worked out for the best.
It could have been a Hallmark movie in the making.

 

[itsgr82bag8r]

Sounds like it all worked out for the best.
It could have been a Hallmark movie in the making.

Sounds more like Hallmark After Dark channel…..if ya catch my drift.

 

[itsgr82bag8r]

My wife and kids would not be as thrilled about the idea as the rest of us. Alas, my wife is an absolute smoke show and one of the coolest chicks you could ever meet. She watches sports and screams at the TV, chugs beer with my boys, cracks dck and fart jokes with the best of em, has a masters degree and successful real estate career, amazing mom, shags like an absolute minx. There's no one else out there that could measure up. I absolutely crushed it in the marriage department

Invalid without pics.

 

[bradgator2]

shags like an absolute minx

Especially when you are out of town

 

[gardnerwebbgator]

Shopping at a record store. Going through albums and cassettes for hours.

Standing in line or camping out at a mall or store for concert or sports tickets.

A mall arcade without gun violence.

The Atari 2600 or Intellivision.

The Commodore 64 or TRS-80.

Drinking water out of a warm or hot garden hose.

Setting ants on fire with a magnifying glass.

Using a wood burning kit.

Using a real compass, the ones with the sharp point you could plant in someone’s jugular.

 

[soflagator]

Standing in line for rides at an amusement park. You wait in the central Florida summer heat for an hour and 45 to get on Splash Mountain and that 1 minute ride is something you appreciated. It built character. Now it’s by appointment and you walk right up and have a minute ride like Avatar.

 

[CDGator]

My first car didn’t have AC…..in FL. Oppressive.

 

[g8r.tom]

My 21 year old granddaughter can't read or write cursive. We're going to change that.

Why?

 

[soflagator]

Why?

So she can read and write in a language that none of her peers can understand. Wait til they sprinkle in a little Sanskrit. It’s really gonna get wild.

 

[g8r.tom]

Yep, same concept
I’ve never tried it but lil seedy prefers it over ironing. Go figure.

I do it too. It works. Easier than ironing.

 

[g8r.tom]

So she can read and write in a language that none of her peers can understand. Wait til they sprinkle in a little Sanskrit. It’s really gonna get wild.

soooooo, like pig latin. gotcha.

 

[g8r.tom]

So she can read and write in a language that none of her peers can understand. Wait til they sprinkle in a little Sanskrit. It’s really gonna get wild.

So one day when my son was in 10 or 11th grade he shared with me that kids in the high school regularity lent their car to a friend to run to lunch or home or some errand.

Me to son: you don't do that dumb chit do you?

Him to me: No dad, none of them can drive a manual transmission,

Year-2016

 

[Back Alley Gator]

Why?

Because adults write in cursive. Children print.

 

[soflagator]

Because adults write in cursive. Children print.

Debatable. I write a hybrid where letters sometimes connect and flow together. But certain cursive letters are just terrible. Ever notice our helmets?

 

[itsgr82bag8r]

My first car didn’t have AC…..in FL. Oppressive.

Uh, knowing that I’m going to sound really old when I say this, my elementary school didn’t have AC in any classroom. Every room had an outside wall that was nothing but those kind of windows that tilt up to let outside air in. The teachers always had a box fan or 3 behind their desk and in the back of the room to circulate the air. (at least that was the intent) Needless to say, it was hot.

Somehow, we all managed to survive without a safe place, drank from a garden hose and rode bikes without a helmet. Shocking, I know.

 

[Detroitgator]

Uh, knowing that I’m going to sound really old when I say this, my elementary school didn’t have AC in any classroom. Every room had an outside wall that was nothing but those kind of windows that tilt up to let outside air in. The teachers always had a box fan or 3 behind their desk and in the back of the room to circulate the air. (at least that was the intent) Needless to say, it was hot.

Somehow, we all managed to survive without a safe place, drank from a garden hose and rode bikes without a helmet. Shocking, I know.

Yup... and broken bones (on the elementary school "steel death" playground/swings) and stitches were the norm... now as a parent, you get grilled by the ER Doc so he can try and determine if he needs to call PD for child abuse. I've never had a broken bone, but between the ages of 4-8 alone, I had 5 ER visits for stitches!

 

[Seedy]

Yup... and broken bones (on the elementary school "steel death" playground/swings) and stitches were the norm... now as a parent, you get grilled by the ER Doc so he can try and determine if he needs to call PD for child abuse. I've never had a broken bone, but between the ages of 4-8 alone, I had 5 ER visits for stitches!

Daughter wrecked her bike and opened her eyebrow (age 6-7) -- First thing the Dr. asked, "Where was your helmet?" Miraculously, her wound healed and she didn't bleed to death.

 

[Altitude Gator]

Getting in a fist fight with you buddy over a girl. Then spending the night at his house a few days later.

 

[AugustaGator]

Yup... and broken bones (on the elementary school "steel death" playground/swings) and stitches were the norm... now as a parent, you get grilled by the ER Doc so he can try and determine if he needs to call PD for child abuse. I've never had a broken bone, but between the ages of 4-8 alone, I had 5 ER visits for stitches!

Put a bandaid on it

 

[AugustaGator]

Daughter wrecked her bike and opened her eyebrow (age 6-7) -- First thing the Dr. asked, "Where was your helmet?" Miraculously, her wound healed and she didn't bleed to death.

At the store!