Exactly! If a kid was fat, he/she stood out like flashing red light on a cop car. If they were not picked on by others, they were stared at constantly.

Haha, probably wasn't very common. Parents didn't go to little league games much, and those that did weren't trying to get their asses kicked by being idiots.

Yep, it used to be that a friend group might include one fat kid. Now a friend group might have one skinny kid.

I never remember the parent's even getting upset at little league games and they would rarely question the coach.

What is the average size of a man in the US?
5 feet 9 inches
How much does the average American man weigh? The average American man 20 years old and up weighs 197.9 pounds . The average waist circumference is 40.2 inches, and the average height is just over 5 feet 9 inches (about 69.1 inches) tall.Feb 27, 2019

40.2 inches at 20? Most of the kids these days are a bunch of Fat Zachs. You know what goes along with being fat, even lower testosterone levels. Lower T, Higher Estrogen. No wonder there is so much gender confusion.

Most everyone in my high school had a shotgun and rifle in their vehicles. I was no exception. We also had our buck knives on our belts. If we had a beef with someone, we settled it with our fists. The thought of stabbing or shooting someone never crossed our minds. We definitely live in different times when a first grader can get suspended for drawing a gun...

We need to bring back Halter Top day to Royals games. That is all.

I guess the things I like that no longer seem to be a thing:

As a young kid, you could just bike around anywhere with anyone from a really young age as long as you were 'home for dinner'.

And then even after dinner we could take off again if we didn't have sports practice or something.

My parents were relaxed about my coming and goings, but some of my friends parents were not. But in high school, at least once they got out of the house, they couldn't monitor them anymore.

No cell phones with everyone taking pics and videos of all the stupid crap you did when you were young and stupid. I'm so glad about this one.

The higher drinking age and the less drinking by the young has a lot of up sides that I don't want to minimize along with greater awareness of issues around sexual assaults, etc.

But I had a lot of fun going to college when the drinking age was still 18, alcohol consumption was high, and as far as I knew at the time...

There were plenty of college girls who were also into sex, drugs, and rock and roll...

...who didn't seem to have regrets about any of it.

I know we have discussed this before, but what size school and city do you live if you and (everybody) drove to school with .22’s in the window rack?

I went to a school of 450/500. In a city of 100k.

Very, very few folks had their hunting stuff in a car/truck. Car stereo theft alone in the 70’s was out of control. If somebody’s gun got stolen out of a truck (locked or unlocked) there was a Dad who was going to kick his son’s ass.

Everybody I knew practiced incredible caution with their firearm.

My school was tiny, 300 kids from K-12, small town few hundred people.

Hunting season, pretty much all vehicles had guns. If there was a sporting event during a hunting season, everyone had a gun in the vehicle. People showed up with camo on, face paint, pretty much all you could think of.

Our school had FFA and their was a trap shooting team, so we had guns for that, a school event that you needed to bring guns for.


We never had any issues, no threats, nobody bringing them into school. It was something that had been taught from a very young age, to respect the guns and to understand it wasn’t something to **** with



Edit: This was late 90’s early 00’s

I fell off one in 5th grade onto asphalt and cracked my skull. Shockingly, my parents didn't sue the school or try to have it closed down.

We had the very tall, and narrow metal slides that would be 800 degrees after 5 seconds in the sun. With nothing but rocks under them to land on when you finally fell off

looking back, our "uniforms" were badass. A printed T shirt from some local sponsor, jeans, and sneakers.

I lived in a town of 13,000 people. I saw a little bit of it, but it was a subset of guys who had pickups. So out of 650 high school kids of driving age, maybe 20 percent (130) had pickups and 80 percent of those (104) were guys. So there were maybe 104 kids who could possibly put a gun in their pickup, and of those 5 or 10 percent actually did. That sounds about right that there were 5 to 10 kids who had gun racks on their back glass with a gun on them. Probably the lower end of 5 would match my memory best.

The accessibility to jugs has definitely become a lot easier. You used to have to sneak a penthouse mag out of your old man’s closet, now it’s everywhere instantly, although that may not me a good thing. :)