“My friends’ moms all had permission to spank me. Good times.”

"Dad would hand me two quarters to walk down to the local liquor store to buy them for him when I was around 7 or 8 years old. The liquor store owner never questioned me."

"I'm a 52-year-old woman now, and I drove the school bus at 16 years old in the '70s." 

"My friends’ moms all had permission to spank me. Good times."

"There were even times when we had to tell the cashier to NOT give the card back to the customer…"

"Carrying shotguns and rifles to school was no big deal. In the fall during lunch or after school, we would hunt pheasants. Then in winter, we would carry rifles to hunt jackrabbits. They were worth 50 cents each. We always kept the guns in our unlocked cars or truck. This was in the '60s, but was still happening in the '70’s."

"If we took two cars to church, one of the kids would inevitably get left behind, which was no big deal. "

"Students today have no idea how fortunate they are to have all this available to all students at the same time! Finding out that the book you needed was already checked out was crushing. We couldn’t afford to buy books from the bookstore like the wealthier students could."

"Get smoked, poked, stroked, joked, and a soft drink to go. Job didn’t pay much, but the French benefits were great."

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