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Originally Posted by blackcherry20
 this is something I WILL NOT stand for.
This is going to be ugly.
Calming down before I talk to my sr. manager.
and it was a woman, one with which I thought there was some mutual respect.
Obviously I was wrong.
 ME TOO!! Kind of a weird graduation year...are we 80s kids or 70s?! LOL! NOw I like you even more Gurney!! You too Onze!!!  |
No, I consider myself a 60's kid and feel very lucky about it. Think about it:
- probably the last generation to grow up playing until the street lights came on;
- the beginning of the Space program when a launch was really special;
- TV was in its infancy, just three networks;
- you rode your bike everywhere;
- you walked to school;
- Saturday mornings were special because of the cartoons;
- no DVR's so you actually anticipated the Charlie Brown Halloween and Christmas shows and Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer.
- someone delivered fresh milk to your house;
- gas station attendants;
- etc., etc.
We were also young enough to not understand the significance of the Vietnam war, the horrible racial injustice (Birmingham 1963), and the rest of the downside of the 60's.
As a child, we used to spend the summers at my grandparents' house in Indialantic FL. They lived one block off the beach. Can you imagine sending off a group of kids ranging in age from 5 (me) to 12 (my youngest aunt) with a bag of sandwiches and a thermos of Kool Ade by themselves to go to the beach? Did it all the time back then.
Sorry for the fillibuster.
I get into these types discussions with friends all the time. I was in the first class of my elementary (parochial) school that went from kindergarten to eighth grade. Almost all of us preferred elementary school to high school and college.
Like I mentioned above, plenty of horrible things happened in the 60's. I am just glad I was young enough to experience some the great things.