I'm so old I Remember when:

[igorsMistress]

I remember the whole school lining up in the cafeteria for a scoliosis check. We had to bend over and pull up the backs of our shirts so the nurse could check our spine.

 

[R2elk]

I remember sleeping out under the stars on the ground as a kid. The lightning bugs were so plentiful it was like watching the stars dance. I’ve read that light pollution may be killing them off

When I was growing up back east, we had lots of them. I was out here for many years before I had seen any here. They are around but I never see them light up but then I am normally in the house after dark thirty.

 

[Ponypoor]

OMG you have made my day!!!!

Hahahaha thanks that’s hilarious! My nieces would pull that with those friends here, we have a couple of rotary phones still and they knew how they worked but their friends didn’t - they would howl with laughter - kids - just love them

 

[Ponypoor]

When I was growing up back east, we had lots of them. I was out here for many years before I had seen any here. They are around but I never see them light up but then I am normally in the house after dark thirty.

Gosh you need to go and see them - amazing to see. A couple summers ago I was up with my RLS bothering me, so I went out to the back paddock to check the horses, it was such a lovely night around 1am, very warm the stars were shining, no moon, and a gazzillion fireflies (that’s what we call them) just flashing - and of course my useless camera won’t take night photos like my old camera. But good thing my ‘memory had a roll of film’

What an amazing memory, thanks for making me remember

 

[BarnyardChaos]

Hahahaha thanks that’s hilarious! My nieces would pull that with those friends here, we have a couple of rotary phones still and they knew how they worked but their friends didn’t - they would howl with laughter - kids - just love them

Makes me want to find one at a thrift store - and other gadgets they're not familiar with - just to try it out on my grandkids and their friends!

 

[Ponypoor]

Except it was always impossibly tangled!

I remember my mom making me untangle it as a weekly chore. Was never so glad as when cordless phone were invented!

 

[Evadig]

I remember lightning bugs

We have (sometimes) lots of them in our backyard.

 

[BarnyardChaos]

I remember sleeping outside under the stars in the summer time. We slept on cloth bags filled with hay, called pallet beds. It sounds very itchy to me now, but when I was a kid that was the best sleep ever. The breeze, the crickets, the coyotes howling just past the tree line.

Eeeek! I know they're not wolves, but coyotes have been known to carry off pets and small children!!! Creeps me out every time I hear them howling. And you slept outside listening to that? And enjoyed it?

 

[TaylorGlade]

I remember A&W with the trays of our order delivered and hooked on the door window. And we got our root beer in a glass mug - still have a couple of those mugs

That's exactly the ones I was talking about. We also had a place called Chicken Box

 

[21hens-incharge]

Nehi soda was a dime with a nickel back on the bottle and it REALLY was knee high.