My Mom has always talked about how great the fifties was. I kind of wish I could go back for a week during that era and experience it for myself. I could end up like Marty McFly and have to make sure my parents got married. I don't want to go there.![]()
Oh wouldn't like cranking a car and having no AC. We're spoiled , I wouldn't want to go back to the time of no indoor plumbing or when you might get shot or scalped traveling across the country. Uh I think I'll stay here, lol.
Indoor plumbing is mandatory![]()
Meh. Poop in a bucket, cover it with sawdust. Makes compost.
There used to be this reality show on PBS called the 1900 house. They picked a family to live like a family did in the 1900's. It didn't look fun and there weren't to many options for a woman having her monthly visitor. If you lived during that time you make the best of it I guess. I probably would have died very young, lol.
There used to be this reality show on PBS called the 1900 house. They picked a family to live like a family did in the 1900's. It didn't look fun and there weren't to many options for a woman having her monthly visitor. If you lived during that time you make the best of it I guess. I probably would have died very young, lol.
Well, there is a way to be dealing with the monthly visitor, but then you'd need a big house![]()
Lock her in the root cellar with a bag of chocolate bars, a hot water bottle, and a box of kleenex and tell her she can come out when she is no longer acting like she's possessed.
My Mom has always talked about how great the fifties was. I kind of wish I could go back for a week during that era and experience it for myself. I could end up like Marty McFly and have to make sure my parents got married. I don't want to go there.![]()
Lock her in the root cellar with a bag of chocolate bars, a hot water bottle, and a box of kleenex and tell her she can come out when she is no longer acting like she's possessed.

Flag down cars and make the make-a-call gesture. Lots of people will pull over and make the call for you. Or ask the next person walking by. Or, if you're near a business, go in and ask if you can make a call. Hubby had that heart attack, iffy whether he'd live the first night, then the first two months, and then my debit card was canceled the day before a blizzard, (both happening on a weekend), my car broke down a couple of times, I needed a taxi on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years, and did NOT use my phone once. (I have one. I have no idea how to use it. lol)I wish payphones were still available. It would be nice if you're stuck somewhere with a dead cell phone battery.
This thread has taught me how much I've been missing. Fannypacks weren't always black? What's a moonboot and why did people buy them? What's Red Box? And, most embarrassing.. who is Slash?This thread has helped to reaffirm something I have thought for many years - that the human race was much better off many years ago.
I have lived past when the planet was supposed to go to the apes, A Space Odyssey, and World War III destroyed the earth in Star Trek.![]()
A long long time ago (plus 40 years) in a galaxy far far away (plus a corrective factor involving the Hubble constant...)