Things we used to do in the 80's, that don't happen anymore:
6. Getting excited when someone had a pick-up truck because that meant the kids got to ride on the flatbed.
7. Sitting on my dad's lap and manning the steering wheel.
8. Eating salami straight from the log.
9. Playing on a rusted swing set where that one leg always popped out of the ground threatening to propel into space and then came back with a thud.
10. Helmets? No one wore them and if you did, you were super geeky... protecting your nerdy brain and all.
11. Being Latchkey kid by 7 years old. The first couple times I stayed home. I parked a chair right inside the screen door and just sat there staring out, so I could see my mom pull up (also, the world could see I was alone with an open door, brilliant).
12. Fearlessly scaling fences, climbing trees, playing in the woods, and jumping streams without a parent in sight to save us (hell, we used to ride our bikes through a cemetery).
13. Running into the store to buy an adult cigarettes.
Read the whole thing. I think I did everything on the list, many more than once (and still do them today!)
