I'm so old I remember... (the best, cell phone, tank, children)

[High_Plains_Retired]

Originally Posted by Nomadicus

I remember walking a cloud of DDT as my grandfather dusted his vegetable crops.

I just heard that life expectancy in the US has gone down. What with all us crazy kids, I guess there's hardly any wonder is there?

[TN Tin Man]

Originally Posted by High_Plains_Retired

Yep! It didn't matter that a cow or two were standing just upstream. I still occasionally play with things that go "boom." I also played hide and seek in the thick DDT fog wafting behind the mosquito control trucks.

Someone's looking out for me I guess.

Between the " BOMB " The Russian Invasion - DDT ... and leaded gas... and playing with explosives we survived

[TN Tin Man]

Originally Posted by High_Plains_Retired

I just heard that life expectancy in the US has gone down. What with all us crazy kids, I guess there's hardly any wonder is there?

Wonder what this generation will tell their grand children.. about the time I dropped my cell phone on my toe or ate some GMO..

[MLSFan]

Originally Posted by TN Tin Man

Wonder what this generation will tell their grand children.. about the time I dropped my cell phone on my toe or ate some GMO..

they had to ride the bus to school? up hills and in the snow

[PAhippo]

maybe that they felt deprived because their phone was over a year old.

[Nomadicus]

I remember good manners becoming politically incorrect.

[SullyinOhio]

Originally Posted by PAhippo

are you sure?

couldn't resist.


I remember playing with mercury too although not sure where it came from. No ill effects here either. (I'd say there was but it's way too late to sue the school. )

Haha, yeah, it’s hard to say. I’m not free of ill effects, that’s for sure. But after 55 years or so, they could be due to any of the not-so-brilliant things I’ve done

[Nomadicus]

I do remember mercury being available for play from a high school chem lab. We polished the silver coins in use back then with it.

[the searchers]

[quote=High_Plains_Retired;50967903." I also played hide and seek in the thick DDT fog wafting behind the mosquito control trucks.

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Right, all the kids in the neighborhood chased that truck.

[TN Tin Man]

I'm so old I remember... Taking the " Kids from the City " Snipe Hunting on a summer evening.. pesky critters hiding in hollow logs and up in the crotch of a old oak tree...