OT--Strange how people change with time

Jiles

Well-known Member
When I was in school in the 1950s and 60s, most of the poorer kids lived on the river, and a lot of kids referred to them as "river rats".
Today, only the "upper class" kids live on river and are certainly not considered "river rats"!
Also during that time, students that wore dirty jeans or jeans with holes in them, were laughed at or made fun of! Today IT"S COOL!!
I bet there are many other changes, similar to this, that have taken place over the years.
 
One of the worst thing I have noticed is how most people have little or no respect for others. Like when you in a store they take up the whole isle so you have to stand and wait on them to get out of the way and that is even with them looking right at you and that in not just the younger people it is the older ones also and you know they where taught better then that
 
Dumb fashion, and fads , all a product of
advertising . Just brain washing people in to
believing that what they have is no longer any
good, and the thing that they have to sell is
better. People are suckers for the most part, and
want to "fit in" , not look out of place ,and be
subjected to ridicule. This for the most part ,
puts me at odds with the rest of society , as I
don't care what others think, I do what I feel is
right by my standards. Not those chosen for me by
some multinational corporation. Bruce
 
This past winter was a pretty cold and snowy one. I don't know yet, but suspect that this upcoming one will be as well. I have leaves turning and falling already. Anyway, last winter's cold reminded me of the Laura Ingalls Wilder series of books that I read as a kid, especially "The Long Winter", so I went out and bought the set to give to my first niece that gets married and has children, to read to her children, hopefully. Most certainly a far different time back when, that's for sure. I picked up "The Long Winter" and started reading through it the other night. It's different than I remember, yet the same. As a kid, I didn't remember Laura speaking of herself in third person terms, but... Anyway, people and societies do change with time, some good ways and definately some not...

As I am older now, I consider myself fortunate enough that I will not be around for some of the changes that I see setting in with more coming down the line. When I die, I intend for it to be with a smile on my face from a time when a bald eagle and American flag in my nation represented something to look forward to.

Mark
 
I had an old VoAg teacher that was near retirement
age when I was in his class. He was 100% old school
and one of his favorite sayings was "Times don't
change,People do".
 
I remember getting cracked by the nuns for using my
fingers to add you were to do sums in your head.
I also wonder how many nuns would now be in jail for child
abuse? I'm 58 and there is nothing that scares me more
then a nun packing a ruler.
Also do you remember if you got in trouble at school what
was waiting at home?
 
When I was in High school, early sixties, we were in assembly listening to information about the new phone systems.
There were three or four speakers and at the time, to make a call, you picked up the phone and dialed the operator. They would say "number please" and you would then be connected.
Phone company was making changes and we were being given instructions as to how to [i:9c992b9674]dial a call[/i:9c992b9674].
During the lecture, one of the instructors stated that in the future, you could push ONE BUTTON on a push-button phone and call anywhere in the world!!
At the time, I think all phones were rotary, and we thought they were joking!!
(someone feel free to correct me if I don't remember all this correctly) Been a long time LOL
 
A neighbor died a few days ago. He was just a small farmer who raised a family and took care of them on his own money. I would call him a real "red neck" because he had little use for all the electronic devices that everyone must have today. He had a saying that I would like to pass on [ be happy with what you have and you will never be poor]. Think about that for a while.
 
(quoted from post at 17:49:50 09/01/14) A neighbor died a few days ago. He was just a small farmer who raised a family and took care of them on his own money. I would call him a real "red neck" because he had little use for all the electronic devices that everyone must have today. He had a saying that I would like to pass on [ be happy with what you have and you will never be poor]. Think about that for a while.

Or like my dad always said [b:6c1518efde]"Satisfy your needs before your desires"![/b:6c1518efde]
 
I held a door open for some nimrod following me in a store the other day, he didn't even make eye contact or grunt a thanks. I felt like slamming it back in his face.


Gene
 
(quoted from post at 08:27:11 09/01/14) One of the worst thing I have noticed is how most people have little or no respect for others.[b:a20c350453] Like when you in a store they take up the whole isle so you have to stand and wait on them to get out of the way and that is even with them looking right at you and that in not just the younger people it is the older ones also and you know they where taught better then that[/b:a20c350453]
Jeez!, don't be a wussie and tell them to move. :roll:
 
Yes, many years ago in Isle of Wight County / Southhampton County VA., only the poor black folks lived on the water, the rich white foks lived alongside the highway. Then times changed....
 
Mid 60's dress pants were getting "expensive". Parents got together and collectively told the school our kids will be wearing jeans to school this year whether you like it or not. School "decided" jeans would be ok. Been wearing jeans and cotton t-shirts ever since. Fashion trends be hanged. Incredible changes in the world in the 64 years I been on it. Some good, some not so good.
 
Now days you do that 50% of them tell you F off or some other such non-respectful thing
 
I was born and grew up in the early 60s when most TVs were still black & white and only 3 or 4 stations no cell phones no calculators or computers and we had not even been to the moon yet. As a child you said yes sir or mam or no sir or mam and you held a door for ladies and gentlemen and you only spoke when you were spoken to. You did not have a fit or do something wrong in public or you knew you would got wore out with the belt! I grew up watching the evening news watching the Vietnam war nightly, And seeing returning vets being disrespected when they returned home ( That never set right with me! ). It was a different time that's for sure. I could go on and on.

Todays kids have no manners no command since and cant live without a cell phone glued to there head or I-pad and don't get me started on texting! There the I want it now generation! No morals and no fear only what can I get away with and slide by with. I am not saying there all bad there are some good ones but boy the rest make you wonder as they will be running the country and taking care of us when we get old. Kinda puts a shiver in the spine don't it?

Like I said we grew up in a different time and place and I don't think todays kids could do what we did with and without! I still have hope for a better future to come. Bandit
 
(quoted from post at 20:31:23 09/01/14) I was born and grew up in the early 60s when most TVs were still black & white and only 3 or 4 stations no cell phones no calculators or computers and we had not even been to the moon yet. As a child you said yes sir or mam or no sir or mam and you held a door for ladies and gentlemen and you only spoke when you were spoken to. You did not have a fit or do something wrong in public or you knew you would got wore out with the belt! I grew up watching the evening news watching the Vietnam war nightly, And seeing returning vets being disrespected when they returned home ( That never set right with me! ). It was a different time that's for sure. I could go on and on.

Todays kids have no manners no command since and cant live without a cell phone glued to there head or I-pad and don't get me started on texting! There the I want it now generation! No morals and no fear only what can I get away with and slide by with. I am not saying there all bad there are some good ones but boy the rest make you wonder as they will be running the country and taking care of us when we get old. Kinda puts a shiver in the spine don't it?

Like I said we grew up in a different time and place and I don't think todays kids could do what we did with and without! I still have hope for a better future to come. Bandit

I have about the same memories and opinion as you.
Do you remember waiting for all the adults to eat first, and we kids got what was left?
That didn't set well with me back then.
Wonder what changed it?
 
I work with a bunch at the feed store. Not one can do anything without first checking a list on there phones. Got so mad one day I drove off and left one guy standing in the yard. Made the delivery by myself.
 
I attended grade school (parochial)and high school, also parochial in Davenport Iowa in the mid 1950"s.
I remember distinctly being told that blue jeans were NOT appropriate dress for school. Now you can"t find a teen-ager (or older) that isn"t in jeans.
 
BTDT. I was raised that way. This morning I waited
for an older Black Lady an held the door going into
the doctors office. Her appreciation for a so
simple a kindness would over come a hundred snubs.
Ron
 
My parents were sharecroppers. So guess how we grew up.The butt of many jokes. But I think we seven turned out ok.

Four military. Two of the four retired from service.
One deputy sheriff.
One runs a vets office.
One runs a feed store.
 
Back in those days only girls wore pony tails and ear rings.

Boys' baseball caps were worn with the bill in front.
 
What kind of trick do the younger people use to keep their "baggy paints" up when the waist appears to be below their hips and the crotch is just above their knees??
 
I had a little girl walk in front of me at walmart, she must have been about 6 or 7...she said "excuse me" kind of softly....then a few isles over a grown woman in her 50s walks right in front of me without a word....
 
I was one of the poorest kids in school.I never graduated from high school. I went into the military and took GED and also came out with one semester of college. I was refused an invitation to the alumni banquet. Later I went to the local university and earned and was awarded BS and MA. I was the only one in my class to earn a MA. Opened a business in the same town and printed programs for the alumni banquet at no charge and contributed money for table decorations. Do you think I would go to THEIR banquet? I like to tell this story and I smile at the haughty ones
 
The thing I notice the most is how un-socialable people are getting. Doesn't seem to matter where you go - church, ball game, the store, or a bar people are just not as friendly anymore. Never use to be like that. The person sitting next to ya would always be friendly and would visit with ya. Now if you say something to most people you get one of those, don't bother me looks and it is back to texting on their phone.
 
+1 on Unsociable.. Went to a machine shop auction last week. I am used to talking to people before and after the sales. This was the rudest hateful crowd I ever saw. I know it is a competitive auction, but people should not act like everyone is the enemy.
 
In cases where people rudely block an aisle when I want to pass by, I simply say very loudly "EXCUSE ME PLEASE!" They look at you kind of funny, but they generally move out of the way. There is simply NO EXCUSE for that kind of rudeness. If one of them dares to comment, I let loose and tell them how rude they are to block the whole aisle. Most are so self-absorbed that they don't even realize how stupid they are.
 
I really think we also had our fads back in the 50s & 60s. Does anybody remember wearing Duck Tails with enough Brylcream to slick them back and hold all day or Flat Tops with Butch wax. What about the pegged pants. It was cool to roll your cigarettes up in your t shirt sleeve and wear engineer boots. Oh Lord, how we forget the dumb things we did and complain about these younguns that will never amount to anything. I'll bet ther older generation in our time thought the same thing.LOL. Just my thoughts, Keith
 
I do very well remember as kids we ate after the grown ups were done, Its was a killer to smell grams fried chicken mashed taters and gravy, green beans and corn on the cob and of course her corn bread and have to wait with your mouth watering the hole time.

The whole Vietnam War as a kid just didn't make cense to me. I grew up with uncles who served in WW2 and Korea and I can still hear them going on about how stupid the Generals were in charge at the time. Take ground in a battle keep it for a week then pull out only to turn around and fight to take it back a month late and loose more men, Didn't make any cense. I still feel sorry for the men and women who served as they didn't have a choice but to go, They were drafted. They did there tour not wanting to be there loosing buddies every day and loosing there minds in the process. They cam home to be spit on called baby killers and not being able to find jobs because of being in the war OR police action as some called it. My hat is off to all of those who served in that long ago war who did as there country asked them to do and never got there true welcome home. Bandit
 
Years ago people ate inside and went to the bathroom outside, now its reversed, in fact a big deck and fancy bathroom are important features of the house.
 
Very true! Gets real old hearing this "older" generation, bash the "newer" generation because they don't live on farms and work until their knuckles bleed just to satisfy the old guys!
 
There"s an auction company that puts several estate sales and a business close-out of some sort into one auction at the fairgrounds in McCook, I"ve gone a couple times for tools, but I"m thinking of going just to get out and BS with people.
 
I remember it was mid to late 1980's when my dad
made the comment that within a few years everyone
would have a telephone they just carried in their
pockets...thought he was nuts then...wished he was
nuts now.
 
(quoted from post at 15:58:41 09/01/14) The thing I notice the most is how un-socialable people are getting. Doesn't seem to matter where you go - church, ball game, the store, or a bar people are just not as friendly anymore. Never use to be like that. The person sitting next to ya would always be friendly and would visit with ya. Now if you say something to most people you get one of those, don't bother me looks and it is back to texting on their phone.
in't that the truth.
Greet people you meet on the street and they look at ye if you wanna rob them.
 
How right you are! And in my situation the little ole country school I went to never had a phone in it. How did the folks know? But they would know. Therefore, this ole boy walked the straight and narrow in school. I didn't like the paddle!
 
I think that is what facebook is for lol. I know exactly what you mean. The funny thing is if you don't "visit" on facebook you aren't sociable lol. What a thing this world has turned into.
 

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