The Times Change
@crossbones27 (52943)
Mojave, California
January 4, 2019 9:35pm CST
I am just remembering stories of when I was a kid. How we were so spoiled and had it so good. In my day, I had to walk to school 10 miles uphill, one way in freezing weather, rain, you name it, with nothing more than a wind breaker or a trash bag for a rain Pancho.
See, we were poor as dirt. Now you say you are poor, you are going to get the dirtiest looks. This guy feels sorry for himself. This guy poor because he does not want to work. What ever society, keep thinking that way. The new greedy mentality will catch up to ya. It does every time.
Now kids be like I drive to school in my brand new BMW, powered windows, doors, sunroof, convertible. My car has GPS, fog control anti freezing, Siri talks to me. Imagine a kid these days saying they walk to school 10 miles one way in the freezing snow with a trash bag on.
Haha, damn that kid gonna get his or her ass beat. Times do indeed change and from what I seen not for the better. Sure we have nicer things, but people sure are pretty spoiled these days and seem to have forgotten what life is all about.
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@crossbones27 (52943)
• Mojave, California
5 Jan 19
@TheHorse While it is probably true, no where I want to live. Thought that is why countries like the United States were made, but that is my opinion. There is still a lot of mid evil thought out there and @banksim no disrespect because love the honest answer, but does frustrate me people just except that is the way it has to be when we showed many times over in the past it does not.
Not really right now because we have a barbarian as a leader. While I like cavemen stuff sometimes, do not want to live my life that way. Was a reason we moved to more civilized times in hopes for more happy times because we became more full of life than ever before when we chose to do those things. Now, I do not feel any of that stuff and that is what scares me most because I am not sure people want to see me when I am numb because people chose they would rather fight than try to get along. I am not a pleasant person when you do it like that. I do not think most people are.
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@banksim (5347)
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5 Jan 19
@TheHorse i am from India, and for me by god grace, my parent give me all the necessity (Not the luxury) for life. i am basically from middle income group of people, but i had no regret about that, as i am happy with my family and thank god to shower love on my country and surrounding.
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@crossbones27 (52943)
• Mojave, California
5 Jan 19
Yeah they suck, had a sand storm when I was in National Guard, everything filled with sand and had to clean every piece of gear we had meticulously and it sucked.
I think my point is no one tells these stories anymore, most of them were not true or exaggerated but there was a moral point and kind of always knew what your parents and grand parents meant.
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@crossbones27 (52943)
• Mojave, California
5 Jan 19
@rebelann Oh Yeah, my whole family is like that. One person was sort of well off in our whole family. My half sisters dad who is not my dad, but he had the money to help them, but nope, do it yourself so you can survive in this world whether you have money or not. Money teaches nothing, but life experience does.
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@rebelann (117251)
• El Paso, Texas
5 Jan 19
True @crossbones27 nowadays the stories told are about parents who as kids didn't get a brand new car to drive to school, oh no, they got the old jalopy while dad got the brand new car. HA! I never got a car from my folks. They bought used cars and drove them til they were too old to try to fix.
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@crossbones27 (52943)
• Mojave, California
5 Jan 19
Yeah, I walked to high school four miles one way in my old apartments and 3 miles when one way when we moved to a new house. California, so no snow, all though maybe 2 snow days I saw once in Junior high, but that walk was close, only a mile in those apartments and once in high school. That was the last time I saw it snow here and lasted about an hour. It still gets below freezing though here.All my friends had cars, not me, all their parents paid for them except a few. You were cool if you had a car even if it was a beater, did not, not cool. These days they even laugh at beaters from what I heard.
Anyway, that is smart with the potatoes, I would have never had thought of that. Get hungry, have a nice snack too. 
These fools can never take away our pride.
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@TheHorse (238330)
• Walnut Creek, California
5 Jan 19
@crossbones27 Heh. None of us had cars. But the teachers at our elite private school would beat us down with words like "Try not to be late next time" and such like.
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@crossbones27 (52943)
• Mojave, California
5 Jan 19
@TheHorse I live in a rich town well, like most of the US half are rich half are not Actually, they really picked on kids who rode the bus still in high school. I hated people, would rather walk. Kids are mean. Some got better as they got older, but many just like many of our politicians, did not change one bit. I can see the spoiled brats in many of our politicians.
Yeah, it sucked when the good teachers made you feel bad. Its like now you tell me. I went the whole year rebelling and now you care, now I feel bad. I mean I guess it is like anything a learning curve to see if the student is worth even the time. I had that happen a couple of times. I still say would have been better if you called me out the first few days. Would have been a much better student, but you know they were at the not going to hold your hand mentality. Well, sorry, but sometimes that works.
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@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
5 Jan 19
I know it. I used to walk to school because it took less time to walk than to stand and wait for a bus and I carried books and my trumpet to school an hour and a half earlier than everyone else to band practice. Once in a while I walk just for the hell of it. It looks like hardly anyone walks and everyone has a car and it is so full of traffic here that it is like walking down a parking lot. Cars all over the place and nobody walks. People are getting so fat these days if they had to walk half a mile they would rather sit for 2 hours waiting for a Lyft or a tow truck than walk that length. Pittiful.
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@crossbones27 (52943)
• Mojave, California
5 Jan 19
Indeed, I am amazed at the lengths people will go to not walk a bit. Its so bad I do not think its about being lazy, but do not want to be seen as a poor person who has no car. This stuff is out of hand. People seriously need a wake up call to how spoiled they have become. The problem is that goes bad for all of us when a lesson like that comes.
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