But did anyone else besides me actually have one of those?

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Drunk driving is way down from the 70s and 80s but distracted driving is a huge problem.

Rape statistics are a hard one because most rapes are not reported.

Hard to know if there is really more sexual assault or just more awareness.

Suicide has crept up but I'm not sure it's dramatically higher.

Not sure meth babies is any more of a thing than crack babies of yesteryear.

Fentanyl is a big deal. I certainly wouldn't be so casual with things like I was back in the day. That is one way kids today have it worse.

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they existed, just at a much smaller percentage.

Maybe they had them in the trunk and you wouldn't have known. I was a sophomore in HS NKCSD in 1973 it was the oil embargo and gas lines here. I had bought my Dad's old 68 I believe Galaxy 500 after my VW was rear-ended and totaled. We could always get gas in Riverside even when rationing was all over the country. My buddies and I would bring our shotguns in trunks and head after school to the farmland we had permission to hunt. We would blast abundant Quail walking fence lines and ditches. When squirrel and rabbit were in season it was .22 rifles. Also, school started at 5 am and we were out by 11:30 am because it was supposed to save fuel or something.

so true.

Trucks weren't popular in the 70s kids wanted muscle cars or dune and rail buggies. Oh and freaking hippie vans.

Totally forgot about that during the embargo. It didn’t happen in my district but I remember it was implemented in some surrounding rural districts.

This was the color of the Fastback 500 with 302 V-8 no fancy Keystone or Cragar wheels but a badass Kmart external 8 track tape deck. Also a massive bench backseat.


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Not totally true. I was in Florida visiting my daughter and family and my granddaughter that was a SR in HS had a date that came by to pick her up.

She came out to the patio saying she was leaving and my SIL said not until he came in to meet me. She gave a little bit of an eye roll but he soon appeared. Had a nice conversation but my SIL grilled them pretty good about where they were going and doing. When they left he asked me what I thought and I just raised my arms and said I'm out, this is your problem. But I also told him he was doing a fine job raising girls.

I did that with my Daughter when she was in HS. However, with cell phones they can talk whenever they like, in our day (lol) they had to call the landline and most parents always aske who was calling and sometimes they would ask what your purpose was for the call.

I actually remember school starting after Labor Day and ending right before Memorial Day. Not sure if that’s a thing in any states anymore as it sure isn’t that way in Colorado.

There was a Jerry Lewis theater in the mall near where we lived. Double feature Saturdays and all that.

Saw Kelly’s Heroes with all that star studded cast (Donald Sutherland - my god he was incredible as Oddball)

and

Skyjacked Charleton Heston with James Brolin (prior fame as Marcus Welby MD’s assistant physician Dr Kiley) and Rosie Grier. (LA Rams Defensive tackle).

I later would work in that theater. Cleaning it on Saturday and Sunday mornings for a few bucks. (And the money that patrons dropped on the floor.

not many.

Not here anymore.

That's the way I remember it as a kid.