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What has disappeared since you were a kid

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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
My parents insisted on this. If, by some accident, I have kids someday, I hope to do the same.
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Mine did for dinner for the most part. If we had playdates or wanted to go out, we were allowed, but only on Friday & Saturdays. Sunday - Thursday, we ate together (except Wednesdays when my dad would take at least one of us skiing with him on Ski Patrol, but it was still family time).
leswp1 said:
We eat breakfast together every day and dinner is at the table most nights. We say grace too- short but there is one. Lil's friends think this is weird.
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We never did breakfast because everyone's schedules were so wonky (my dad is the local prison doc in addition to having a private practice & hospital rounds, so he starts his day at 4:30, kids didn't have to be up so early and my mom didn't have to be at work until 9:30.
The kids I nanny for say grace before dinner every evening. Even on Mondays, when we start dinner before their parents get home, they say grace - it's not my tradition, but I think it's important for them to keep theirs.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
We didn't eat meals together too much when I was growing up. I never ate breakfast, and if I did, by the time I was getting ready for school my dad was already out doing chores. Lunch never worked out, in the summer/weekends we would usually pack lunches and just eat in the tractor at noon, sometimes I'd get to either my house or the grandparents house for a hot lunch, but it was never all of us there. Dinner was the same during summer/weekends, we worked until dark, so we'd eat while working or wait unitl 10:00 when work was done to eat, by that time mom had already eaten. Holidays/Birthdays/Special occasions were the times when the family ate together.
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Yeah, and see how you turned out. I think that is cautionary for all parents to get the family together for meals! :p
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
We'd go to that RR every other Sunday. My favorite place to eat when I was a kid.
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When I was a frosh at the U they had one in Dinkytown...it closed :(

One night a buddy and I were driving back from Chicago and as we went through Wisconsin every town seemed to have an RR...problem was it was after ten so we would turn off hoping to have a Super Slice and every ****ed one of them was closed!! Biggest tease of all time! Just another reason to hate that turpentine drinking, cheese worshipping, deer ****ing buttcrack of a state! :mad:
 
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They may not be gone yet, but I definitely don't see paper maps around as much as I used to.
 
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What has disappeared since I was a kid? Most of all, rational thinking.


Family meals are generally a great idea, though ours went down the tubes with the divorce, remarriage and all the related hubbub during my teenage years.
 
Handyman said:
When I was a frosh at the U they had one in Dinkytown...it closed :(
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I've done research...BP and Spokane are the only locations not in WI nowadays.:(

We always tried to eat dinner together when I was a kid. We were involved in a lot of sports so that made it difficult as we got older. We also tried to eat breakfast and lunch together on Sundays.
 
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Bob Gray said:
What has disappeared since I was a kid? Most of all, rational thinking.


Family meals are generally a great idea, though ours went down the tubes with the divorce, remarriage and all the related hubbub during my teenage years.
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Yourself included right? ;) :p
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
They may not be gone yet, but I definitely don't see paper maps around as much as I used to.
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I still have road maps and atlases that have all of my motorcycle travels marked by highlighters and pens. Some great memories of roads less traveled.

One one trip from Toronto to Cody, Wyoming one of our guys had a bag phone in the trunk of his Harley. We were amazed that he was able to call and make hotel reservations from the side of a road in the middle of nowhere!
 
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While I love my GPS on my phone, I also love getting lost. It is a great way to learn alternate routes to your destination, or you never know when you might need to know how to get to where you end up another time. I used to drive around for a job I had and while getting lost was annoying, the info usually helped me out later on and made it easier to remember how to get to the place I was supposed to get to next time.
 
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Handyman said:
While I love my GPS on my phone, I also love getting lost. It is a great way to learn alternate routes to your destination, or you never know when you might need to know how to get to where you end up another time. I used to drive around for a job I had and while getting lost was annoying, the info usually helped me out later on and made it easier to remember how to get to the place I was supposed to get to next time.
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I like to get lost on purpose. I never feel like I am really "lost" though, I can always find my way back onto a major road that I am familiar with. I'm just "exploring." :)
 
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Handyman said:
While I love my GPS on my phone, I also love getting lost. It is a great way to learn alternate routes to your destination, or you never know when you might need to know how to get to where you end up another time. I used to drive around for a job I had and while getting lost was annoying, the info usually helped me out later on and made it easier to remember how to get to the place I was supposed to get to next time.
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I haven't used my phone GPS, but I do the same thing, getting lost and finding your way out. I was once got lost on the county roads in northern Minnesota between Pequot Lake and Fargo. I missed a turn(the directions were turning all over the place) and so I just started driving, knowing what direction I was going and where I needed to be. Ended up in Wadena and Highway 10, which is the road I needed to be on. No maps, no GPS, no stopping to ask for directions. It was fun.

I too used to drive a lot for my old job and needed to find alternate ways to locations(Working in TV news). I always thought I'd make a good cab driver.
 
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My parents' GPS was a map and one of these:



And apparently defrosters have come a long way since the 70's-80's because I distinctly remember them always yelling at us kids in the car: 'STOP BREATHING! YOU'RE FOGGING UP THE WINDOWS!!!!!' :p
 
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zamboni crash-test dummy said:
And apparently defrosters have come a long way since the 70's-80's because I distinctly remember them always yelling at us kids in the car: 'STOP BREATHING! YOU'RE FOGGING UP THE WINDOWS!!!!!' :p
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I thought this as well, then for the first time I had four other people in my car with me on a road trip. Couldn't see a dang thing. :)
 
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zamboni crash-test dummy said:
My parents' GPS was a map and one of these:



And apparently defrosters have come a long way since the 70's-80's because I distinctly remember them always yelling at us kids in the car: 'STOP BREATHING! YOU'RE FOGGING UP THE WINDOWS!!!!!' :p
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We had one of those. When I was a kid we would go on 2 weeks jaunts around England/Scotland/Wales with RAC Trip-tiks, maps and a cooler in the back with lunch supplies. I was the navigator a few times. I was 10. Perhaps this is why I have no patience when Mr. Les has no sense of direction?
 
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I always get lost, even with a map. Eventually I triangulate the location I'm trying to get to, and arrive, but it's a very bass-ackwards way of getting there.
 
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