WE ARE A GENERATION THAT WILL NEVER COME BACK.

harrisonm said

I am 71. When I was about 10 years old, I was allowed to walk all the way downtown to Martin's Hobby Shop (about a mile each way) to spend birthday or Christmas money on airplane models. Would you let a 10-year-old do that now? And @go-fish, I don't think Mark was being arrogant or suggesting that his generation is better than any other, I think he was simply stating some facts of things he fondly remembers about growing up when he did. And by-the-way, @Mark Wainwright, you forgot to mention that walking to school was uphill both ways.

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A lot of things like you mention have truly changed. When I was about 12, I rode my bike out to my grandparent's house, about 6 miles one way. I didn't ask. I just jumped on the bike one day and wondered if I could do it. A little while later, I was there. I rode that bike all over Macon. No cell phone, no nuthin. You used to see kids ridin bikes all the time. Now, not much at all. They all play video games. Even if they didn't, I'm not sure I'd let my young children.....if I had any, ride their bikes all over creation like we used to. Things are just really different....well......maybe not different, there's just more bad element everywhere.

Same kinda thing with when we were starting to drive. Used to be we could ride out to north Bibb county on what's called Spur19, line um up and race. In broad daylight. Now, everything is son congested, you'd kill somebody. Things are different in a lot of ways.

I wouldn't trade my growing up years for nuthin though. We had a good time.