Changes that have occurred during your lifetime, like or dislike?

[AZ Jim]

Thanks Annie....It's probably the cocktails.

 

[Ameriscot]

In my 81 years I have encountered many changes. I agree the technological advances are wonderful...especially the internet.
Yet, I so miss the earlier way of life. Miss the feeling of being safe. Of being able to leave doors open or unlocked. Children being able to sleep outside, in tents or on porch, in the summer. To ride their bikes anywhere at anytime. To wander in the woods...walk to the corner store, alone. I miss being able to go to the store after dark, without fear. Hate having to encounter panhandlers at gas stations and stores. Being unable to go into a store without people outside asking for money for whatever charity or trying to sell you something. Previously, only the Salvation Army, at Christmas, and the Amvets, selling their Poppies, did this. I could go on and on.... We have had to trade a lot to acquire all that we have today.

There are still places where you can leave the door unlocked or forget and leave the keys in the car (at home), or have no fear of being out in the dark and if I had kids I'd have no qualms about letting them out alone on their bikes or wherever.

 

[Ameriscot]

Thanks Annie....It's probably the cocktails.

Ohhh....better go make myself a G & T then. Oh, bloody hell, I'm on a diet, I can't.

 

[Shalimar]

So that's your secret, Jim, getting embalmed ? Yikes!

 

[AZ Jim]

There are still places where you can leave the door unlocked or forget and leave the keys in the car (at home), or have no fear of being out in the dark and if I had kids I'd have no qualms about letting them out alone on their bikes or wherever.

It's still that way in small towns up in the Dakotas.

 

[AZ Jim]

So that's your secret, Jim, getting embalmed ? Yikes!

Honey, I'll never be embalmed. When my time to turn the page comes, I go up in smoke, no embalming here. I have a couple of Bourbon and cokes or Gin and tonics in the late afternoon usually.

 

[Shalimar]

Jim, honey, I meant you are retaining a false appearance of youthfulness through picking yourself in alcohol, dear.

 

[ndynt]

There are still places where you can leave the door unlocked or forget and leave the keys in the car (at home), or have no fear of being out in the dark and if I had kids I'd have no qualms about letting them out alone on their bikes or wherever.

Places that I expected to be that way, I am told are not. How about Indonesia? I hear conflicting stories about life there. And, most places, I imagine that an expat is a target. For, we are all rich
Jim (have not figured out how to do a double quote yet) I have had more than my share of snow, ice and cold. I shiver just reading the Dakotas.

 

[AZ Jim]

Jim, honey, I meant you are retaining a false appearance of youthfulness through picking yourself in alcohol, dear.

NAW none of my family look their age. Sometimes it pisses me off that people guess me at 50 or so. I'm not pickling myself.

 

[Ameriscot]

It's still that way in small towns up in the Dakotas.

It's like that in my area now.

 

[Ameriscot]

Places that I expected to be that way, I am told are not. How about Indonesia? I hear conflicting stories about life there. And, most places, I imagine that an expat is a target. For, we are all rich
Jim (have not figured out how to do a double quote yet) I have had more than my share of snow, ice and cold. I shiver just reading the Dakotas.

I was referring to where I live. Although I wouldn't leave my doors unlocked if I lived in town ten miles away.

I felt safe in Thailand in the little community we stayed in and left the house unlocked when we went to the pool. We did make use of the bedroom safe though.