If you could go back, or pick and era to grow up in...would you you?
Sex was safe and motorcycles were dangerous! In '74 I had a '69 Dart 340, auto on the floor, B5 Blue, a/c car which I sold for $1500.00 in late '75 in order to buy a '69 Camaro RS 396/375 Horse 4 Speed for $2500.00. Back then you could go buy Sunoco 260 Premium Fuel which was 110 Octane, but someone came out and pumped it for you and washed your windshield while you, were there. My winter beater was a '72 Chrysler Town and Country Wagon with a 440 of course. I paid $400.00 for it with 67,000 miles on it. It could hold nine people, each with a quart of Bud, on our way to see Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith and a few other shows. As John(Cougar) Mellencamp put it: "I'm surprised that we're still liven"
I'm old enough to recall the late 70's, a quart of beer was 99 cents and a liter of coke cola was around 60 cents. The older guys would laugh at us drink soda when beer was cheaper per oz.
Rock concerts were kickass, I almost seen Led but their dummer died and the show was off. I did see Foghat, Rush
But we are forgetting the bad stuff, the 55 mph limit--yeah everybody went over but you could not sail passed the police at 72 mph like you can now.
My min wage job paid $1.70 an hour and gas was $1.50 and my car got 13 mpg. Today min wages are around $7.50 and gas is $3.50 and cars get 20 mpg, its cheaper to drive if your car is paid off and you got basic insurance.
Remember trying to call your friends and if they were not home, you had to go out and try to find them, that stunk, I wasted time and gas when now you just carry your phone with you.
Life is pretty good today, IMO The internet makes life easier, I can book a hotel room at a good price by not even calling anybody. If your car gets a flat, you need not even to get out of the car, just call AAA and kickback and wait for help to come (yeah we would change our tires but you need not to)
Chicks, well heck things are different today in that dept but you just got cope with the changes. Tattoos on chicks I had to get used to but its grown on me, lol
Music, well I grown used to Hip Hop, classic rock was cool but you gotta be willing to try new stuff. The Who is back on stage the next couple of months but I don't believe I be seeing them, I was going to Hamilton ON in Feb but the more I thought about it and reading the reviews, yeah Pete and Roger have grown old and it would not be the same as it was in the 70's- early 80's. Maybe I still go but many wrote they wished they didn't go ?
What i don't like now is a few things but then life is never perfect is it ?
