You oughta see the resell prices in Africa and how little cash it takes to bribe customs agents.
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I know a guy (gal, actually....my wife)
There's a kick-ass train set that goes through a good portion of the downstairs of a antique store that my wife and I sometimes go to.
Beings back really good memories.
Not CoH, but from age 10 on, I never went anywhere without my BB gun. And I was always on a bicycle - always.
When I was a kid, I don't remember anything other than being told to go outside and 'find something to do'. Played Army a lot with my sisters. lol
I remember getting some whirlicoptor things that you shot from a gun-like thing and watching them spin up in the air, But that's really the only toy I can remember. Electronic games weren't a thing then and we didn't have the money for them, even if they did.
When we lived in town, there were always guys who could get a pickup baseball/basketball/football game together. My little town had a great park.
I wouldn't trade my childhood for anything. The only thing I can think of that I really wanted, but never got, was a cool electric race track. I had a small one, but I always wanted one of the big ones.
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*sigh* My daughter and son-in-law drive electric cars. My poor grandkids will never know the cursing that goes along with an overheated engine.
Yes!
Out the door at 9, back for lunch when hungry and home for the night when the street lights came on.
Kids these days wouldn't know what to do with themselves.
You were destined to be a war hero.
Our childhoods were better than kids today. It’s not even close. Technology sucks
Hey dad, can we get wifi installed in the woods please?
I never realized until later how much WWII and Korea affected our (my) generation, Our dads and uncles, most of them, served, and it was just assumed the next generation would, too So my cousins always played 'war' when we got together.
They'd put us in counseling if we did that today.
I supposed that's why it was an easy decision for me to join the Army and be a double-naught spy (that might be a stretch).
It’s not just technology, but adults and parenting too. We use to play baseball in the street. Try that now. I used to walk and bike all over town, now parents get cited for allowing the kids to roam.
Our school built this pimped out field. Then locked it. My partner goes. Wtf. Unlock the god damn thing. There’s not a single Loren Goldstein up here playing D1 in anything!
My parents were born in 1929, so they didn't really know much about it. All they knew was, they didn't have any money. But they both lived on a farm and they ate well - never went hungry.
I do remember stories of my uncles, who were older (my parents were both the youngest in their families) going to play cards and winning enough money to buy Christmas presents. My one uncle talked about chopping wood all day for $1 a day.
Another kind of funny story - my grandfather got extra gas ration cards because he was a farmer. He looked up from his plow (with horses) one day and saw the local banker walking through the plowed field in his dress shoes to ask my grandpa if he could buy some gas ration cards from him. I actually knew the banker when he was much older and always got a kick out of that story.
I played war all the time. Had a giant box full of plastic, fake machine guns in the garage, lugar pistols, six shotoers, an Uzi. We had 5 acres of woods behind my house, surrounded by a crick (that was actually a chemical runoff from the train yard to the river that later turned half my township into a Superfund site) and we would hide, flush each other out, shoot each other. "I got you!" "No, you missed!"
It was glorious. But the cancer is going to be a bitch in a few years.
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