days of yore
 

is it just me or does everyone here remember the days when the biggest scam you had to worry about was uncle sam and $400 hammers. and the days when you knew your neighbors by name. only locked your door when you left town. people drove with resect for others on the road. and when you made a deal a hand shake and a mans word meant everything. you could walk the streets as a family and not have to worry about your safety

Re: days of yore
 

I stiil try to live that way i still have alot of trust in people. If we all give up trust completely it will be a lot crappier world to live in.

thats why we are moving around here gotta sleep with one eye open and 2-3 kinds of locks on doors and wont let wife and kids walk alone to many bad things happen around here

Like my dad told me awhile back....MOST PEOPLE NOW A DAYS ARE ALL ME ME ME...Not many people you can trust anymore....People are too selfish now!!! :evil: Think about it how many people.... family excluded can you totally trust... :shock:

on here there are a few but for day to day only 3-4

Well with all honesty i will have to say where i live we don't lock our door's except when we leave town, And for the most part a handshake is all it takes, as for family most are decent some will screw you before the preacher will :!: :!: As for my shop never locked only a couple here knows why :!: You can walk down the road at night without being afraid :!: We don't lock door's when we go to bed, If your tired come on in and grab a empty bedroom and have a goodnight's sleep :!: :!:



''JUST MY TWO CENT'S WORTH''

I live in central Wi, a smaller town by most standards. Little by little it is going downhill but i will not give up on the idea that the days of not locking doors and being able to walk streets safely is over. Would love to see the old times where you had no internet and 250 channels on tv. I remember actually having to wait untill Saturday morning to watch cartoons. Not 10 channels with it 24/7. I still clear snow for the retired people i live next to. When out to dinner with my wife I give up my seat at the bar when we are having a drink before dinner to any elderly or person that actually needs it. I can stand. I had a neighor boy years back that was 15-1/2 he was ready to get his drivers liscence but did not have cash for a beater.His brother had a older Buick Century ( if i recall right)
for $300 he wanted me to hire him to cut my lawn to earn cash for the car.I paid for the car up front so he would not have to wait. He cut my lawn all summer never missed once. To this day if we see him when we are out for the evening he thanks us for being trustfull in him to carry his end of that deal. And a few times has paid our bill for dinner without our knowledge.To this day i try to do what i can to be a good person. I am not trying to look like great guy just try to do my part in a crumbling society.A little step by a whole lot of people translates into a giant leap. I know i cannot change it by i am trying not to give up.There are many great people out there they are mixed in with to many idiots.

When we lived up in South Dakota we had a soft water filter that needed salt once a month, the first time they came over to service it while we were gone they called upset that we had locked the door! We had no idea... :shock:

Sioux Falls , S/D had to be one of the safest towns I've ever lived in, lots of goodlooking farmers daughters up there too :lol:

If it weren't for the harsh winters I go back there in a heart beat.

i used to live there and thing have changed in sioux falls proper but the small towns arent to bad

I'm sure it has changed over the years, probably for the worse, they usually do, but then again, don't they all?

I'm sure it would still feel like paradise comparred to Memphis, Tn.
Hate to bad mouth my home town but it is a violent city.




Cp

I think you can apply a lot of todays ills it to this,

when I grew up my mom & dad were the kings, my life as a kid revolved around them, dad worked long hours & when he came home we ate dinner, when HE said we did, we werent there you didnt eat. He then went off to his 2nd job.
I worked as a paper boy from 12 yo. When I got working papers at 14 I worked in gas stations. I turned my pay over to my mom & she gave me some spending dough. I tell people that today & they cant belive it, I say hey I had no choice!

I grew up in a crappy neighboorhood even then, we had gangs beating the crap out of everyone, Junkies in the park shooting up, this was in the late 60's.My school days was a war zone with race riots & bussing. In some of our riots the mobsters would come in & beat the black kids with bats, it was straight out of a sopranos episode. School was lucky if you didnt get jumped or worse. I couldnt wait to get out. I joined the airforce the minute I could & thank god for that.

When I got out in 82, unemployment was 18% in my town, & being a jet engine mechanic netted me a 5$ an hour job washing the tarmac at the local airport, veterans were spit on back then & Reagan cut off any chance of unemployment because my 6 years of service wasnt enough, they denied me because i refused suitable employment by not reenlisting! Hows that for hard core!

But back to the turning the pay check over to the family, after being unemployed for the longest period of my life, (4 months 6 interviews a day, every day) my mom gave me a bank book with $900 in it , she took 10$ from every pay i gave her & saved it in a passbook! boy did that come in handy.

My longwinded point, The family used to be all about the parents, now it seems to revolve around the kids. The false sense of entitlement I think contributes to a lot of the problems we face today. I cant remember a time when my dad had to take off work to take me to a ball game, either I got there or I didnt. My neighbors kids cry like a baby if god forbid a parent misses a cheer leader practice. They spend 80% of thier free time shuffling the kids here & there, in my subdivision, the kids get driven across the street to the school! Im not kidding.

My last thing is a funny one, my friends kid was acting the fool & got thrown out of school, the court ordered a shrink.

the verdict was a classic, they shrink told the kid basicly BOO HOO, daddy was a pro race car driver for porsche, he had to race 12 months a year, it was his job, he got paid, he put food on the table & a roof over your head, so what if he didnt go to your game, HE WAS WORKING! get over it, he loved you what more do you want!
They are now best pals.

sorry for the rant

i can remember if you acted out the belt came out and your behind got nice and red but you learned now a days you swap your kid for getting outta line you go to jail but yet if the kid get into trouble the parent is at fault and can facee legal repercutions

This is used at the school level as well. I heard this so many times with my boy, "the parents don't do enough in the way of discipline". Their view of discipline is a time out and negotiating, with children. I had a meeting at the school once, teacher handed me a list of the "problems"? I merely remarked, I myself and most people I grew up with had done all these. Told the counseler, nothing here a good slap upside the head wouldn't cure. Happened to me and I learned not to act out anymore. She didn't understand. Thought I was a terrible person to suggest this. Our meeting was over!

When I was in 3rd grade the teacher put my head out on the window sill & closed the window(not to kill me or anything but I talked alot)

When I told my mother, she marched me to that teacher & said if I ever gave her crap again, she had permission to whack me!

It worked:-)