OT - For the older crew on the board

[TokyoJetsFan]

Saw this and thought it would resonate with a bunch of us here lol

[Dunnie]

This is a weak depiction of the reality ! 

[68JET11]

If I could actually understand what that really means, I'd respond lol... Something we ole folk learned very early in life. How to make complete sentences.

[Anthony Jet]

I forget who said it. But people late late 30s and up are the last generation to not have their parentsknow where they are as kids playing in the street. They know they’re in the neighborhood and had an idea where they were.  There were no phones barley beepers. No way to track. Just a simple be home when the street lights come on or listen for the whistle, something to that effect 

[JustInFudge]

I'm 43 baby!!!!  I made the cut!!!!!!!!!!!

LETS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sonny Werblin]

By fifth grade i had complete autonomy. My time was my time and could I pretty much do what i wanted (outside the presence of my parents). The result. Lots of injuries (major and minor), even more lessons learned, and more fun times than anyone should be permitted to have. I often tell people that i had an idyllic childhood . Not from a parent perspective , but from a kid’s. It was like a stephen spielberg/john hughes directed collaboration on steroids. i did the best i could to give my kids the same opportunities, but the structured zero tolerance for mistakes world they lived in did not cooperate.

[Dunnie]

@Sonny Werblin... I think we grew up in the same era ... At 7 I was walking to and from school (1.5 miles) ... at 8-9 sometime alone.  Spent the majority of my off school hours outside playing sports or dirtbomb wargames with my buddies.   Sometimes climbing fifty foot trees in the woods without a net.  Multiple trips to the ER for stitches or broken bones playing ice hockey on ponds (without any town/parent oversight).. even fell through the ice one year. . Street football and/or pad less tackle football until the sun went down. I was expected to be home for dinner.  No cell phones.  Homework was on me to complete without supervision... and without the internet to plagiarize.   Today's reality for kids is completely backwards from where I stand.  Learned how to handle not getting selected for certain sports (basketball) .. played beanball and dodgeball without rules ... the list goes on and on .. so many fond memories, some not so fond memories .. but learned from them all. Wasn't quite Stand By Me times , but definitely resembled a John Hughes movie or Caddyshack.

 

 

Edited January 18, 2023 by Dunnie

[The Crusher]

45 minutes ago, JiFields said:

I'm 43 baby!!!!  I made the cut!!!!!!!!!!!

LETS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m 56, I pioneered that shit. “ Be home before the street lights come on!” 

[Dcat]

52 minutes ago, Anthony Jet said:

I forget who said it. But people late late 30s and up are the last generation to not have their parentsknow where they are as kids playing in the street. They know they’re in the neighborhood and had an idea where they were.  There were no phones barley beepers. No way to track. Just a simple be home when the street lights come on or listen for the whistle, something to that effect 

I lived in a small apartment on the 6th floor.  PS 220 and its huge asphalt playground were about 100 yards from the building.  Just like the Italian Spaghetti sauce commercial, I often got summoned home by my mother sticking her head out the 6tth floor window and shouting my name at the top of her lungs.  And... this was not so uncommon.  Might have been my first public humiliation... not sure.

[jamesr]

49 minutes ago, Anthony Jet said:

I forget who said it. But people late late 30s and up are the last generation to not have their parentsknow where they are as kids playing in the street. They know they’re in the neighborhood and had an idea where they were.  There were no phones barley beepers. No way to track. Just a simple be home when the street lights come on or listen for the whistle, something to that effect 

Where are you going? - "Out"

When will you be back? - "Later"

That's what I recall from childhood.  

[Dcat]

34 minutes ago, Sonny Werblin said:

By fifth grade i had complete autonomy. My time was my time and could I pretty much do what i wanted (outside the presence of my parents). The result. Lots of injuries (major and minor), even more lessons learned, and more fun times than anyone should be permitted to have. I often tell people that i had an idyllic childhood . Not from a parent perspective , but from a kid’s. It was like a stephen spielberg/john hughes directed collaboration on steroids. i did the best i could to give my kids the same opportunities, but the structured zero tolerance for mistakes world they lived in did not cooperate.

I remember playing in the courtyard behind my building without any adult supervision at 6.  I was trusted to come back up on my own.  I started riding the subway on my own at 13.  And much much more.  Parents today would be horrified at what were the norms in the 1960's and 70's, at least in Queens anyway.

[GKnight83]

The OP forgot....

If we ever needed money, say $0.45 for a Pepsi and a Snickers, all we had to do was pick up some garbage and bottles while walking to the neighborhood store.

By the time I was 11 I knew how to save birthday and Christmas money so I could take the subway to Queens to see the Dodgers when they came to town too.

Yes, we were both Environmentalists and Capitalists!

 

[More Cowbell]

7 minutes ago, Dcat said:

I lived in a small apartment on the 6th floor.  PS 220 and it's huge playground were about 100 yards from us.  Just like the Italian Spaghetti sauce commercial, I often got summoned home by my mother sticking her head out the 6tth floor window and shouting my name at the top of her lungs.  And... this was not so uncommon.  Might have been my first public humiliation... not sure.

OMG, I went to PS 220. I grew up in the Fairview apartment  building. We had a huge asphalt park across the street so I never went to 220 except occasionally  if we wanted to play basketball there but we hated waiting for a game so didn't  do that too much. The Fairview had a pool so summers were spent there. My mom was so over protective. Had to know where I was at all times. My dad couldn't  care less lol. 

[Nixhead]

My era and location was the best. Grew up in the 70's right next to a boat yard in Northport Harbor. We kids would be in a different boat everyday. Most owners didn't lock them up or the locks were easy to break. We always found playboy magazines and booze. In the summer we fished off the docks all day - snappers. In the winter they took the boats out of the water and put them on stilts so we would climb up and in. When it snowed we would go to a graveyard up by 25A and launch snowballs at passing cars. Had neighborhood football and baseball and street hockey games everyday. Halloween was the best. When we got older it was rollerskating at the Northport roller skating rink on 25A. Drink beer out back then go in and create havoc. Good times I will never forget! Today we would have been put in jail or juvenile homes for what we did back then - but we never hurt anyone - just a ton of malitious fun.

[More Cowbell]

12 minutes ago, Dcat said:

I remember playing in the courtyard behind my building without any adult supervision at 6.  I was trusted to come back up on my own.  I started riding the subway on my own at 13.  And much much more.  Parents today would be horrified at what were the norms in the 1960's and 70's, at least in Queens anyway.

As they should be. I just changed jobs because I don't  want to deal with all the begging and crazy people who ride the subway. Since the pandemic,  it has gotten totally out of hand and Adams for all his talk has barely done anything. The police on the subway are a joke. They all stand together  on a platform in one spot. 4 cops watching 40 feet of subway platform. 

[Bugg]

Can remember being told in the summer GET THE F___ OUT OF THE HOUSE NOW.  Go play, NOW. And don't come back until dinner. That was until we all started working at like 12 or 13. 

[Jimmy 2 Times]

I had the latest technology: a digital watch with two alarms.  One for dinner and one for curfew.  
 

Total freedom so long as I had passing grades and avoided the police.  When I messed one of those things up, my father got involved and made sure I didn’t do that again for awhile. 

[Trotter]

I have no idea what was being said in that article but at age 62 here is my view.

Always treat people with respect. i dont care what color, nationality physical appearance etc they are, if you follow that simple rule life and interaction becomes so much easier.

Regarding people over a certain age - not sure if early 40's count but certainly those in their 60's and above. You lose your filter and you also realize a good portion of your life is past you so you are less tolerant of nonsense. For me personally, I have been blessed that my kids are grown and have their own families - I even have a grandson and hopefully more on the way.

If I find a situation where someone is threatening that happiness and I don't strictly mean physical, I am willing to do what I need to including jail if it means protecting them. I have lived my life and completed my job of helping to develop my kids.

So if that article is saying be careful what you say or do to a certain age group - that I will agree with.

The only exception I have to the treat respect comment is if someone is walking or driving with the head in their phone - in that case all bets are off and stun guns should be legal to just put them down.

[Jimmy 2 Times]

Oh and when I was younger than my digital watch days I just listened for my father’s whistle.  That man could whistle louder than a train.  I could hear him for blocks. 

[More Cowbell]

3 minutes ago, Trotter said:

I have no idea what was being said in that article but at age 62 here is my view.

Always treat people with respect. i dont care what color, nationality physical appearance etc they are, if you follow that simple rule life and interaction becomes so much easier.

Regarding people over a certain age - not sure if early 40's count but certainly those in their 60's and above. You lose your filter and you also realize a good portion of your life is past you so you are less tolerant of nonsense. For me personally, I have been blessed that my kids are grown and have their own families - I even have a grandson and hopefully more on the way.

If I find a situation where someone is threatening that happiness and I don't strictly mean physical, I am willing to do what I need to including jail if it means protecting them. I have lived my life and completed my job of helping to develop my kids.

So if that article is saying be careful what you say or do to a certain age group - that I will agree with.

The only exception I have to the treat respect comment is if someone is walking or driving with the head in their phone - in that case all bets are off and stun guns should be legal to just put them down.

The article actually address how scary he thinks 42 and over is. I really hope it was satire. Probably isn't 

 

[Sarge4Tide]

[Trotter]

4 minutes ago, More Cowbell said:

The article actually address how scary he thinks 42 and over is. I really hope it was satire. Probably isn't 

 

Yeah - really distracted this morning and not necessarily paying attention - just started typing and went on a rant.

Apologies.

[frankiepapa]

The problem with today is that everything is about clicks and likes on social media...

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[slats]

33 minutes ago, Nixhead said:

My era and location was the best. Grew up in the 70's right next to a boat yard in Northport Harbor. We kids would be in a different boat everyday. Most owners didn't lock them up or the locks were easy to break. We always found playboy magazines and booze. In the summer we fished off the docks all day - snappers. In the winter they took the boats out of the water and put them on stilts so we would climb up and in. When it snowed we would go to a graveyard up by 25A and launch snowballs at passing cars. Had neighborhood football and baseball and street hockey games everyday. Halloween was the best. When we got older it was rollerskating at the Northport roller skating rink on 25A. Drink beer out back then go in and create havoc. Good times I will never forget! Today we would have been put in jail or juvenile homes for what we did back then - but we never hurt anyone - just a ton of malitious fun.

This was basically my childhood, except I was doing it in Islip. Lived right between two docks, a lot of construction in the neighborhood where we’d play in the foundations throwing dirt bombs at each other, the woods right behind for exploring when we were kids and drinking as teens. We had a house (more like a shack, lol) on Sexton Island where I had my own 7’ fiberglass boat with a 4hp Evinrude that I used to cruise all over in before I was 10 - including to neighboring islands, lol. My dad would be on the roof watching me try to jump the ferry wakes. Before we were old enough to drive we’d ride our bikes to the ferry in Bay Shore and hang at Atlantique on Fire Island, or take the train to the city and just walk around back when Times Square was still scary, lol. Looking back, it was a dream. I was a lucky kid. Summers were always the best on Long Island, that’s why I retired to permanent summer. 

[Biggs]

Monday morning.  Bye.  Sunday night get home in time to watch Ed Sullivan and Bonanza with the family.   Rifled my fathers pants pockets for change before leaving to school on Monday morning.  Occasional crumpled dollar bill. Score!

[68JET11]

1 hour ago, Anthony Jet said:

I forget who said it. But people late late 30s and up are the last generation to not have their parentsknow where they are as kids playing in the street. They know they’re in the neighborhood and had an idea where they were.  There were no phones barley beepers. No way to track. Just a simple be home when the street lights come on or listen for the whistle, something to that effect 

Funny, cause I had something similar... Got up early in the morning cause my mom made me practice the piano before and after school, and as long as my homework was done every day I could do pretty much what I pleased. We had our usual chores to do, like helping out in the kitchen when dinner was over, or mine was cutting the grass, cause my mom liked the way I did it. But most of all, I was out every day it didn't rain on my bike in the neighborhood going over my friends house. Everyone in the neighborhood knew when it was 5pm, cause out the door was my mom yelling "LEONARD" lol... Everyone knew it was dinner time lol...

[slats]

17 minutes ago, Sarge4Tide said:

My brother had that one. I had…

 

[68JET11]

28 minutes ago, Trotter said:

Always treat people with respect. i dont care what color, nationality physical appearance etc they are, if you follow that simple rule life and interaction becomes so much easier.

I truly believe most of us older generation has that... I know I was taught it, and it's worked well in my life.

[68JET11]

1 hour ago, Dcat said:

I lived in a small apartment on the 6th floor.  PS 220 and its huge asphalt playground were about 100 yards from the building.  Just like the Italian Spaghetti sauce commercial, I often got summoned home by my mother sticking her head out the 6tth floor window and shouting my name at the top of her lungs.  And... this was not so uncommon.  Might have been my first public humiliation... not sure.

Very funny !!!   good story

[Alka]

1 hour ago, Dunnie said:

Sometimes climbing fifty foot trees in the woods without a net. 

I once climbed a tree about 30 feet high, and fell out when I was a kid.  I actually thought fast and fell straight on one leg, thinking that I would mess up the one leg, but the other leg would be okay.  Well, I was about a 1/4 mile away from home, my leg was badly sprained, and I crawled the entire way home.  I never went to the hospital, never got X-rays, and just sucked it up until it healed.  I don't remember my exact age, but I was probably somewhere between 7 and 9 years old when it happened. 

[Darnold's Forehead]

 

[ChewyandtheJets]

Going on 57 and my experiences mirror many of yours.   Feel good stuff thanks for sharing.  If there is a higher power that takes interest in this stuff I am kindly asking that next year we don’t have to start these nostalgia threads until after the Super Bowl.  Or at least the playoffs.  Pretty please we are clearly good people, have suffered quite severely at least in the football sense, and deserve a little break.  

[JustInFudge]

1 hour ago, The Crusher said:

I’m 56, I pioneered that sh*t. “ Be home before the street lights come on!” 

Same age as my brother, I've had pioneers as mentors and I was trying to out do them every day.  lol 

 

[The Crusher]

Just now, JiFields said:

Same age as my brother, I've had pioneers as mentors and I was trying to out do them every day.  lol 

 

“Dally?” Haha 

[JustInFudge]

Just now, The Crusher said:

“Dally?” Haha 

Yep!  lol