The good ol' days...

A few things from my childhood that my children will probably never experience:

• Dropping a roll of film off at the drugstore and anxiously waiting for almost two weeks to get the pictures back so you could see if any of them turned out good.
• Walking to the nearest little store (for us it was Paul's Superette) with a quarter and being able to buy licorice sticks, Bazooka bubble gum, hot balls, and Mary Janes (I think at the time they were $.03 a piece). (Of course, Paul knew all of us kids (and our families before we were born) so maybe he gave us a little extra!)
• Saturday morning cartoons. Other than that the only thing on for kids was Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, and Zoom.
• A television that had no remote and only received the local ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS affiliates.
• Having to stay in one general area when talking on the phone because the phone had a cord.
• A phone that actually "rings".
• Not knowing who was on the phone until you answered it.
• Life without answering machines and home voice mail.
• Riding in a car with no air conditioner.
• St. Joseph's Baby Aspirin - I never had anything else as a child!
• Having to use a payphone if you were away from home and needed to make a call.
• A world without AIDS, domestic terrorism, cyberstalking, identity theft - I could go on but I'm depressing myself.

I'm glad I was a kid back then.