Things you sure miss.

[retrorussell]

Monthly paper bus passes.  It was good for a FULL month and cost $100.00.  My credit card from work is granting public transporting-using employees exactly this much and the paper ticket we got from the machines at the transit centers worked just perfectly.  Now a stupid new transit system called HOP has turned it on its head.  We no longer do paper passes but have to use a plastic card that charges by the DAY.  5 bucks per day is not going to see you through the month on $100.00.  I have talked to multiple HR employees about how this doesn't work and they don't get it.  The $100.00 is allotted only on the 23rd of each month.  Free remainder-of-the-month passes are given ONLY in a calendar month, so this doesn't work.  I had a hard enough time getting the Hop card to work with the bank; now this is really p**sing me off.

[claws]

Snow.

I grew up with a healthy change of seasons, and my favorite was always winter. We had lasting snow from late November till April (white easter wasn't uncommon). We used to go ice skating on frozen lakes in March. We used to build 7 feet tall snowmen in our yard on Christmas eve.

For over a decade we are "lucky" if we get one week of snow (compared to 4 1/2 months) in winter.  

[Svengoolie 3]

Privacy.

The days when you could look some nosey SOB in he eye and growl "That's none of your damn business! " and not suffer instant, devastating,  crushing consequences automatically bing imposed on your by overwhelming force.

Your corporate overlord decides he wants to see your fb page. You tell him "No, that's for family and close friends only. "

You're fired.

Your overlord asks if yoiu smoke at home . You tell him "What I do at home is none of your business. "

Goodbye job.

An insurance minion asks a shockingly lersoinal question you flastky refuse to answer.

No insurance. And no anything that requires you to have insurance to do even if it's a legal right.


Some damn lawyer decidesynhe has a right  to ask Incredibly offensive personal and intimate questions.  You tell him to commit a physically impossible act. Hello jail! (This happened to someone I know who was a witness to a crime and refused to answer some personal questions about his sexual life the defense lawyer demanded answers to. He refused and was jailed for contempt,  lost his job and was fined into bankruptcy.)

I sure miss privacy.

[ER]

I know something most men sure miss, the toilet when they're peeing. Is it that difficult?

[Leah]

I know something most men sure miss, the toilet when they're peeing. Is it that difficult?

Sometimes the stream splits and goes everywhere but inside the toilet.

[Svengoolie 3]

ER, behold the solution to your problem.


https://www.glowbowl.com/

[chainsaw midget]

I miss when stores had comicbok racks in them and there was an arcade machine right as you leave. 

I miss being able to go into a video rental stores and browse for movies, not knowing what you're looking for and having little to go by except for the covers. 

I miss when people didn't expect you to always have your phone on you and be able to pick up at a moment's notice. 

I miss all the neat mascots McDonald's used to have.  You never see them anymore. 

I miss little toys in breakfast cereal. 

I miss just being able to watch TV with rabbit ears.  No netflix, no streaming, none of that. 

I miss when parents could yell at or spank their kids without everyone acting like they'd just committed murder and are the worst parents that ever lived. 

[LilCerberus]

Those '70s UJMs...
Maybe not the coolest looking bikes, but ergonomic & easy to control, and pretty reliable as long as you don't ring 'em out.

[RCMerchant]

I miss being able to run. Or climb trees. 

[RCMerchant]

I miss when you could just walk into the country store and find candy and soda pop and comic books and monster magazines (and beer and smokes for the grown-ups.)
They had TRUE WEST and Detective magazines too. And of course Field and Stream and sport magazines.

[RCMerchant]

When  you bought a box of Banquet chicken you got 2 breasts, 2 thighs, 2 legs, and 2 wings.
Now you just get wtf ever they grab. And NEVER over 5 pieces.

[LilCerberus]

Those records that you could cut off the back of cereal boxes or out of magazines & comic books...

I remember when MacDonald's had some pretty fierce competition from Burger Chief & Burger King in the useless toy department.

[RCMerchant]

Those records that you could cut off the back of cereal boxes or out of magazines & comic books...

I remember when MacDonald's had some pretty fierce competition from Burger Chief & Burger King in the useless toy department.

You mean Burger Chef? and Jeff? I don't recall getting a lot of toys from Burger Chef. Or Jeff.
I still have the Frankenstein, Wolf Man , and Creature toys from McDonalds from the 90's.

http://youtu.be/fFrS4YIOnv4

[ER]

I did think of something. I miss after school cartoons like those I used to come home to. Now it's fake court shows and lurid talk shows and the start of three hours of depressing local news. Duck Tales, Thundercats, Pound Puppies, Muppet Babies, and much later Animaniacs were better viewing fare. Even He-Man and GI Joe were endurable. Progress is not constant.

[LilCerberus]

When kids could get part time jobs or paper routes or whatever, & eventually save up enough for a nice ten speed, or a moped, or even a 450cc motorbike....
I always hear these stories about old timers who started out really young in order to pay for college, whereas my generation just barely missed out on that...
In my case, I wasn't allowed, because I was in special class, making me a dropout risk, and they kept telling me I had rich parents (actually not true) who were going to pay for college....

And I miss the days before a bunch of suits on the hill, from both sides of the aisle started saying what Americans were & weren't 'willing to do'...