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Back in my day........

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  • boudiepitbull
    boudiepitbull Posts: 128 Member
    Back in my day the only yogurt you could buy in the store was Dannon and it came in plain, vanilla, blueberry, strawberry, and...wait for it...Prune Whip!
  • linddd
    linddd Posts: 6,591 Member
    Back in my day the cashiers punched in the prices on the cash register and they were FAST.
  • provencal73
    provencal73 Posts: 1,275 Member
    Back in my day kids were more worried about their sticker collections and nerf wars.
  • DoneWorking
    DoneWorking Posts: 247 Member
    Back in my day... I worked in an auto supply and had to hand write all of our tickets, add them up and figure out the sales tax ourselves. It made me really quick with math though!
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    Computers were the size of refrigerators! :tongue:
  • pondee629
    pondee629 Posts: 2,469 Member
    FabulousFantasticFifty wrote: »
    Back in my day we'd pretend we were Evil Knievil when we rode our bikes!

    Playing cards in the spokes so it sounded like a real motorcycle ;-)
  • SojournerThirteen
    SojournerThirteen Posts: 28,204 Member
    We walked 2 miles to and walked 2 miles home in any kind of weather... -80 to 90. Sometimes the snow was 3" deep. Truth.
  • linddd
    linddd Posts: 6,591 Member
    Back in my day TVs and stereos came in big wood cabinets.
  • GDLAZ
    GDLAZ Posts: 3,784 Member
    Back in my day Grandpa would drive past the Grand Canyon and say, "look kids, there it is"... True story. :smile:
  • Tampaex
    Tampaex Posts: 2,009 Member
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  • nichalsont
    nichalsont Posts: 421 Member
    Back in my day, TV was free.
  • Tampaex
    Tampaex Posts: 2,009 Member
    Back in my day, you had to leave your house to buy music.
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  • headofphat
    headofphat Posts: 1,597 Member
    back in my day a mix tape accurately conveyed how much you loved or hated someone.
  • mer1cose
    mer1cose Posts: 90 Member
    Back in my day, when someone knocked on your door you were excited to have a visitor..
  • bubbajoe1066
    bubbajoe1066 Posts: 95 Member
    back in my day milk was delivered to your door step once a week in glass bottles
  • linddd
    linddd Posts: 6,591 Member
    Back in my day we called it "gym" instead of P.E.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    Back in my day, we actually listened when the old folks told stories.
  • rygar1983
    rygar1983 Posts: 761 Member
    Back in my day, we use to go to the store and steal mad dog 20/20 after school and go drink it at the park.
  • Monkey_Business
    Monkey_Business Posts: 1,800 Member
    Back in my day you used a slide rule, there were no hand held calculators,
  • oberon0124
    oberon0124 Posts: 10,524 Member
    My first gallon of gas I purchased was $.42 cents. Cigarettes were $. 35 cents (quit 29 yrs ago)
  • linddd
    linddd Posts: 6,591 Member
    Back in my day it cost 10¢ to mail a letter.
  • GDLAZ
    GDLAZ Posts: 3,784 Member
    Back in my day the 8-track player would switch tracks in the middle of my favorite songs.
  • DoneWorking
    DoneWorking Posts: 247 Member
    edited April 2016
    jenilla1 wrote: »
    Back in my day, we actually listened when the old folks told stories.

    Back in my day... My parents, aunts and uncles were young adults during the prohibition days. Man the stories they told!
  • DoneWorking
    DoneWorking Posts: 247 Member
    edited April 2016
    linddd wrote: »
    Back in my day we called it "gym" instead of P.E.

    Back in my day... P. E. was required every day in elementary school, Jr. high and high school.
  • linddd
    linddd Posts: 6,591 Member
    Back in my they paddled kids in school.
  • chelsy0587
    chelsy0587 Posts: 441 Member
    edited April 2016
    Back in my day we didn't skip school because everyone in town knew your parents and they would be calling them ASAP.

    Back in my day my brother and I had knock down drag out fist fights and no one got locked up, just sent to bed without dinner.
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