Weirdness From The Past or Your Past.

[Brazen]

Underage drinking without being challenged for ID 

[Barrister]

Going to tthe drive-in movie in the back of my parents station wagon, then falling asleep for the second feature.  It's the trifector of things you don't see any more - drive-ins, station wagons, and a lack of seatbelt legislation.

[Brazen]

Pubs that charge different prices in the lounge and saloon bars! 

[CountDeMoney]

Do Brits not have bottle deposits?  We still have homeless people rummaging through trashcans for bottles to return for their deposits.

Shit man, I haven't seen a bottle deposit since my mother drank Diet-Rite in those longnecks.
Virtually nobody makes bottles out of glass anymore, and only some states have bottle deposits.

[syk]

Being in the cargo area of a moving car with a bunch of other kids. No belts or anything and nothing ever happened. Played a game of chess by mail. Leaving the house in the morning and returning home when it got dark as a kid and nobody was worried.

[11B4V]

Being in the cargo area of a moving car with a bunch of other kids. No belts or anything and nothing ever happened. Played a game of chess by mail. Leaving the house in the morning and returning home when it got dark as a kid and nobody was worried.

or riding in the back of a pick-up truck going down the freeway. Havent seen that in ages.

[syk]

And how I loved the nervous smiles on certain parents' faces when mentioning the knife my daughter got for her 5th birthday. 

[PDH]

Walking home from school for lunch (my god, it was two whole blocks!)

Waking up early and seeing the Indian Head test pattern on the TV.

McDonalds before the Big Mac.

[DGuller]

Being in the cargo area of a moving car with a bunch of other kids. No belts or anything and nothing ever happened. Played a game of chess by mail. Leaving the house in the morning and returning home when it got dark as a kid and nobody was worried.

or riding in the back of a pick-up truck going down the freeway. Havent seen that in ages.

Probably because all the people who did it have since fallen off the truck and died.

[DGuller]

Back when I lived in Soviet Union, it was having some of our neighbors come to use our phone.  They didn't have one of their own, since it took years of waiting on the line to get hooked up.  We had ours mainly because my grandmother was a switchboard operator and had connections.

[derspiess]

or riding in the back of a pick-up truck going down the freeway. Havent seen that in ages.

I see it all the time-- but then again my morning & evening commute is through Kentucky

[Ed Anger]

Going to tthe drive-in movie in the back of my parents station wagon, then falling asleep for the second feature.  It's the trifector of things you don't see any more - drive-ins, station wagons, and a lack of seatbelt legislation.

Its a dump now but it is my hometown dump.

[Razgovory]

My folks had some station wagons.  I never thought about it, but yeah, you don't see those anymore.

[Barrister]

Back when I lived in Soviet Union, it was having some of our neighbors come to use our phone.  They didn't have one of their own, since it took years of waiting on the line to get hooked up.  We had ours mainly because my grandmother was a switchboard operator and had connections.

[Ed Anger]

Beeb, you just had to mention drive-ins. Now I can't stop looking up the old ones. YOU ASSHOLE.

http://www.roadsidepeek.com/roadusa/midwest/mwdrivein/index.htm

Sigh.