Fun pub discussion last night - things your kids will never know or experience

[clydefrand]

503. Well, at 77 (going on 78), so lets see:

(in a small town in the hills of Virginia.)At about 5, lived at top of very steep hill, used to roller skate (used key), used at broom stick to set on to act as a brake. Also, there was a tree down over the hill that big and tall and someone had tied a rope to one of the limbs, so we would get up the hill as far as the rope would reach and then swing WAY out.
As time went on, used to climb tall saplings as close to the top as we could, then lean way out and ride the tree down to the ground.
I did grow up with in-door plumbing, and a phone (you called an operator to make your call).
Oh, at 3 years old, a 3 yr. old girl came over to play under our back porch. She had to pee, so I got
my first looky-see.
We finally got dial phone when I was about 10 or so. We had mail delivered twice a day, monday thru saturday. Got milk delivered to the door 3 times a week. We had a car until I was about 3, my parents got there next car in 1955. I got a bicycle for 12th birthday. We lived, at this point, on a hill so steep, most
cars couldn't drive up the hill, had to come up a less steep hill a block away. Got to where I could ride that bike straight up that hill, the one side of the handle bar brooke off, so rode it until I went in the Army in 1953, even the steep hill in front of the house.
Summer times, stayed out late, we wherever we wanted, AND NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG because
the parents would know about it before you got home.
Oh, well, enough old memories. Got lots more, just can't remember them any more, else I'd write a book.