How things used to be

[NWSharpshooter]

ᎣᏏᏲ, ᏣᎳᎩᏍ ᎯᏬᏂᏍᎩ?


reminds me of a story.

(I’m waiting in line behind a woman speaking on her cellphone in another language. Ahead of her is a white man. After the woman hangs up, he speaks up.)

Man: “I didn’t want to say anything while you were on the phone, but you’re in America now. You need to speak English.”

Woman: “Excuse me?”

Man: *very slow* “If you want to speak Mexican, go back to Mexico. In America, we speak English.”

Woman: “Sir, I was speaking Navajo. If you want to speak English, go back to England."

Did you explain to her that the Navajo were nomads with no native land?

Also, how in the holy hell does one mistake the broken syllable jacked up Navajo language for spanish?

 

[gh1950]

We used to play a game called Root the Peg with our pocket knives at school.

We called it Mumblety Peg. I've tried to tell TEACHERS that we used to do that at recess. Of course, they asked "what's recess?" No one got stabbed. It was a "sin" to play for keepsies. The cheap Barlow knives were the bomb.

 

[Tony2X]

We called it Mumblety Peg. I've tried to tell TEACHERS that we used to do that at recess. Of course, the asked "what's recess?" No got stabbed. It was a "sin" to play for keepsies. The cheap Barlow knives were the bomb.

Hell yeah, we used to do it with a long azz screwdriver.
Stand about 10 ft. from each other and throw it at the ground, where ever it stuck is where you had to move your foot to....till you couldn't go any further...LOL

 

[Leshaire]

Use to be able to speak your mind, but now too many MOD's feelings get hurt.....

FTFY

 

[gh1950]

First dealership I worked at still had the plate above the bathroom door "white only".

True fact here, y'all can share the legacy.

Worked at Stone Mountain Park late 1960's in the maintenance dept. in the summers. The "old building" (Confederate Hall, the one in front of the carving) had two of each sex bathrooms side by side -- two men's, two women's, one of each was about twice as large as the other one. I haven't been back in years so I don't know if they are still that way.

No one knew why, or at least said they didn't. Remember the park had only been operating about 5 years then.

One day I was in a storage room looking for a main panel to shut off a circuit, found it, and open the box. Taped to the inside of that door, probably hadn't been opened in 5 years, was a wiring blueprint for the building. Clearly identified the big bathrooms as "white" and the smaller bathrooms as "colored" I don't think the actual bathrooms were ever identified that way, but the drawings themselves would have been circa 1960.

Even at that tender age, I thought it was thoughtful for the state to build a memorial to the Confederate States of America, and make sure it had "colored" bathrooms.

 

[FatBack77]

vent windows and a cassette player.55 mph in orange and 85 on the speedometer

Ah yes........the good ole days!

 

[drsmile]

Used to be every kid I knew could eat peanut butter and bread. WTH happened???

 

[Theodore]

Parents used to be able to say "I don't want you hanging out with those people" without being labelled

 

[bambam]

It used to be--- "Hey, look at the fat kid."

 

[mfoster]

In high school we had a smoking area.