Water used to be free, so was TV, didn't cost to pee
You could buy real aged meat, they used real sugar to make things sweet
Women were flattered if you made a pass, it was cheap to buy gas
People laughed at a joke, it was only a dime for a coke
Everyone owned a gun, it wasn't illegal to have fun
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Perfectly summed up my friend
Thanks so much Norman. I have to tell you Norman that I do appreciate your regular reads and kind and understanding comments my friend.
always most welcome friend
A good Write here. The thing that gets me is 'Trigger Warnings' before a Television Programme that I watched when little. 'Unsuitable for Younger Viewers'. etc.
As for Complementing Women: Your walking on Eggshells. A fave.
Thanks Kevin for the read. Yes now a trigger warning would be what was a X rated movie.
My Pleasure.
Times a changing all the time!
Thanks Cryptic and not always for the best my friend.
Your statement brings the past into the present, suggesting that modern life has become more complicated and more expensive.
Thank you Friendship and indeed you are right.
Those were the days.
Then the bureacrats got involved, and a simple, how are you doing became like the inquisition.
This is why all my neighbours have six foot fences separating them from each other. We want privacy at all costs.
Then they die and nobody notices for about a year afterwards.
Thanks Paul you are right. I got to see the change in a sped up version. When I first came to Brazil. Where I was there was no electricity and everyone knew everyone, there was no crime, with electricity came radio, TV, Video Games, Internet and no one talked to each other any more. Crime started since no one knew anyone and had no qualms robbing who they didn't know. Sad.
Soren, this feels like somebody rifling through an old drawer and finding one thing they wish they hadn’t. And wow...remember those days? A fave for sure, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
Thanks so much my friend for the read and comment it is most appreciated. Yes there still remains a bit of nostalgia for the old times but I'm sure if I went back I would long for the present.
A fine write SB.
Thank you Orchi you remember those days
Lol. Not all the fun I liked when I was young was necessarily legal.
But I get you're meaning.
For a world of atheists and agnostics we've certainly become very Presbyterian!
Humanitarians have become Christian, Peace seekers Buddhists, Philosophers Hindu, Politicians Muslim and what happened to Taoists? Thank you for your read and comment it means a lot.
remembering a past time when social life was different for people and the prices of goods were different...very nice write
Thanks so much for the review my friend it is most appreciated.
you're most welcome....i suppose it's also that money was worth different back then...like a dime was worth more than now because of the economy or the government printing money
True it is but even with that adjustment a coke should not be more than twenty or thirty cents and a gallon of gas should not be more than sixty to eighty cents given the rate of inflation.
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