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This is very much true. I must be one of the few parents in the country that doesn't have their kid in daycare.
What was commonplace or part of your life when you were little that has since disappeared? Those of us that are older could probably fill a thread by ourselves
For some reason I was remembering trips to the grocery store when I was little. We used to go to shop in a Purity Supreme that now would be considered little but at the time was a "Supermarket". Everyone smoked inside the store (I wonder where they put the cigarette butts, now I think of it). We would go thru the line and the gentleman bagger, wearing a tie, would bag the groceries and put them in a sturdy metal bin. The metal bin was put on a ramp of metal rollers in a que with the others and pushed out of the store thru a flap. Outside there were all the metal bins, filled with groceries waiting. We went out to the car (black VW bug with 3 large neon orange flowers stuck over the back wheel well) and drove up to the front of the store. The gentleman working out in the front, also in a white shirt and tie, would load the car for my mother and she would tip him. He would shove the metal bin on another ramp of rollers and it would roll back into the store.
Later I remember the bag boys, still in ties, pushing the carts out to the car, helping load and her tipping them.
Oh, and my father wore socks that he had garters for just below the knee.
That's available for free download on the kindle.
On another note, this:
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I don't know, I think they're still alive and well on a fair number of shows, many of which have great credit sequences to go along with them. Look at The Sopranos (going back a couple of years, I know), Mad Men, Californication, Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire, Shamless, Entourage, Hung... maybe cable channels (premium channels, in most of the cases I listed) feel like they have more leeway? Contrast that with the inane Two and a Half Men opening, or the catchy but quick How I Met Your Mother (actually a snippet of a song recorded by the show's producers' band, IIRC), or how some big dramas like Lost and 24 and Grey's Anatomy basically dispensed with them altogether. I think there is largely a network/cable divide at work here.
