Things you miss

I actually worked at a Tastee Freeze in PA when I was a teen, eons ago. I'll never forget how to make the swirled cone. Hated making change for the patrons.

Home. But twelve hours on a plane feels too much like Russian roulette.

The sound of cicadas in the evening

NICE new songs on the radio.

[quote]The sound of cicadas in the evening

What happened to them, gurl?

[quote]I actually worked at a Tastee Freeze in PA when I was a teen, eons ago. I'll never forget how to make the swirled cone. Hated making change for the patrons.

Math is hard!

[quote]The Tastee Freeze in my hometown.

Did it shut down?

I miss the Little Caesars truck that would drive around selling pizza. Like the ice cream man.

I miss R rated movies. Everything is PG-13 now.

[quote]The Tastee Freeze

Yet you spelt it wrong.

[quote]I miss R rated movies.

The sex or the violence or both?

I miss my parents.

Calories.

Mia Farrow.

[quote]The sex or the violence or both?

I think I miss that there is nothing "adult" anymore. Everything has to be toned down to be family friendly.

[quote]I think I miss that there is nothing "adult" anymore.

God I was thinking this just an hour ago. How when I was a kid in the 70s - how much was geared towards adults.

[quote] Everything has to be toned down to be family friendly.

& stupid friendly.

Rotary phones and $9 phone bills.

Fireflies.

[quote]Rotary phones and $9 phone bills.

Like this?

A relationship

My youth. I’m not kidding.

[quote]My youth. I’m not kidding.

Who said you were?

I miss NOT having to use a condom.

[quote]I miss NOT having to use a condom.

How ya dealin' with face masks?

[quote]Rotary phones and $9 phone bills.

And dialing those phones with a pencil.

Gotta protect those nails, R25.

perspective

proportion

reasoned, intelligent debate

life before smartphones

While certainly not for adults, things - and especially films - aren’t necessarily more family friendly these days. But what they are geared towards for are teenage boys and straight older men with the emotional maturity of teenage boys, and the entire public sphere is infantilised as a result.

Those fucking Marvel films have a lot to answer for.

No, you young whippersnapper, R19, like this.

We also had phone number prefixes like Plaza 54189 and Tuxedo 8 1765. Skyline 7 2482 and on and on until modern times took over.

Italy. And it looks like I won't be seeing it anytime soon.

These things always end up being about phones.

[quote]No, you young whippersnapper, [R19], like this.

r29 >

People are not things, r12.

I miss swimming.

I miss collecting things---Wedgwood; Edward VIII memorabilia; jewelry; wine glasses; Christmas decorations; and more---because I have finally realized the immense waste of money (should have put it into Amazon and Tesla!), but also that I simply have no more room or desire for crap.

All that remains is the need to dust and sweep.

[quote]All that remains is the need to dust and sweep.

Whistle while you work, gurl!

DECENT movies made for ADULTS who FEEL things.

Going to concerts; waking up and not feeling like utter shit; able to eat anything you like without paying the consequences.

I miss going into a gay bar when it was pretty much men only. Wall-to-Wall Men!

There, I said it.

R38 >

Borders Books & Music.

Borders was especially good in London...they had a yuge one at the end of my street...plus a yuge HMV...how lucky I was.

Being slim without any special effort. Rollerskating around without fear of falling and breaking a hip. Being physically attractive to potential friends and lovers. The casual feel of my hometown before the influx of aggressive self-entitled L.A. and S.F. people.

[quote]Being physically attractive to potential friends and lovers.

Hawt.

The smell of napalm in the morning.

The warm mornings, the breezy nights. My hot lovers, so many. Laughter and friendship in Palm Beach. Living in a crazy loft in Manhattan. Racing around the Hollywood Hills with the roof down, wind blowing in hair. I could go on.

A sense of normalcy I haven’t felt since Nov 2016. Now with Covid, life is even more depressing.

Young coochie

Seeing my dick when I pee.

Naked swimming.

[quote]life before smartphones

This morning, antagonizing news reports about the rollout of a "touchless soda fountain," which requires a smartphone to be able to get a drink (see link below).

And a story about how the disabled can go to a voting station and cast one's vote curbside - provided you have a cellphone and summon poll workers once you get there.

I detest cellphones, and have never owned one. They're the fucking 'mark of the beast,' I swear.

Just kidding. Mostly.

I agree a smartphones. Really mobile phones in general. I do keep an old flip phone in my glove compartment for emergencies however.

I'm the same as you, R51.

I still have my American Touch-Tone phone from 1983 - but I use a cordless landline phone mostly. I don't care what people say.

One landline. No smartphone. Never. Ever. Ever.

R52... ooooo a cordless landline! You bougie gurl!

How can you miss something you never had?

I had to buy a smartphone for this terrible car I bought last year. I traded in the car after 4 weeks and took the phone back to Apple.

Para ti, r36 (Tony):

Hi, r57...thought you'd pick it up.

Now to listen to that lovely movement.

I can see Erica on Broadway with that huge painting in my mind's eye.

Your mind must have a very large eye.

R34, Time spent with loved ones is a thing. Human bodies are things. Being with my parents is a thing I miss.

Apart from that, I like the rest of your post.

Thread starting to sound like “Our Yown.” I miss my parents , aunts, uncles — everyone whose dead.

When I was younger, my sibs and I had hissy fits just before Xmas dinner, thanksgiving, etc.

My mom said,” Honey, there is nothing to be upset about. We are all here. We are all alive and healthy. “ Sigh. I miss my Mommy.

R56 Hate to say it , but you sound like a curmudgeon who can't have nice things because you refuse to learn anything new.

[quote][R56] Hate to say it , but you sound like a curmudgeon who can't have nice things because you refuse to learn anything new.

Hate to tell you but I totally learned how to use that fucking thing.

(Softly, more in wonder than in grief) I can't bear it. They're so young and beautiful. Why did they ever have to get old? Mama, I'm here. I'm grown up. I love you all, everything.

Department stores that weren’t full of overpriced sweatshop low quality goods

Modest vehicles before everyone decided they needed an SUV

Class and good manners

I miss having an intelligent and sane leader.

[quote]People are not things, [R12].

Excuse me?

I miss feeling optimistic that better days lie ahead.

Gentleman Callers not having to wear masks.

travel

Does anyone remember things like jelly and jams and even some store bought candy before it got cloyingly sweet. Sometime in the early 70's, corn syrup began creeping into everything and now everything is overly sweet. I hate it.

The unthinking optimism and confidence I had until I hit 40.

I miss hugs from family and friends

Woolworth's, shopping downtown and neighborhood stores. The safety and security I felt before big acts of terrorism in the U.S. (the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings... and of course 9/11)

movie rental stores.

Craigslists personal ads.

Guiding Light

[quote]movie rental stores.

Why? So much easier to stream them. I'm all for nostalgia, but not THIS.

I can’t believe that it’s taken this long to ask, but OP are you Jack and Diane? Do you also miss dribbling off those Bobby Brooks slacks and doing as you please?

Family. Traveling (even making plans to visit family), being able to go into any retail store and buy something i needed (i recently moved into a place with almost no household products/implements/things like a vacuum and other things). Shit in general that will take weeks and weeks to send to me.

Boxy 80s - 90s cars.

My grandmother

At Halloween as kids we loved the “wax candied “ lips, moustaches, buck teeth, clown smile .... anyone else remember?

Going to the library with my mom as a young boy . I wanted to be a librarian and stamp the due dates in the books

Goodbye to clocks ticking, hot ironed dresses , or was it hot coffee....mama , look at me, now, I’m here (mother bustling around kitchen)

I remember telling my mom that we don’t hug enough. She said “We Dont have time’

Nostalgic old queens, many younger than I am, who have given up on the future and even the present.

R84 Emily’s speech breaks my heart every time, and it’s one of the few sure things that makes me cry.

[quote]The casual feel of my hometown before the influx of aggressive self-entitled L.A. and S.F. people.

I miss the hometown I loved before hateful lunatics took it over.

I miss the Pizza Hut salad bar, especially the creamy Italian dressing.

I miss dancing on a crowded floor.

I miss the excitement of getting ready to go out on a weekend night.

I still miss that first puff of a cigarette

I miss being genuinely excited about anything.

I miss the summer metal festivals

I miss the days in the old schoolyard we used to laugh a lot.

Fresh FUDGE

Baking chocolate chip cookies and actually eating them with milk. I don't bake anymore, I used to be able to eat a lot and never gain weight. Those days are long gone.

R89!!!! That was the BEST. Nothing was more satisfying.

The good old days before fingerprint and DNA crime databases.

I miss my luscious hair, auburn with chestnut hi-lites.

I miss Marshall Fields when it was still Marshall Fields.

I miss:

People being stoic and not feeling everything is a personal attack

The news being there to inform and not to influence

The absence of political correctness

My hair

etc.

I am sooooo sick of this woke nonsense going on right now. When were gay people ever afforded such accommodations? Never!

I miss Dallas.

I miss the days when you could get hired on the spot at a job interview and not have to go through the equivalent of an FBI/CIA investigation to get an average job.

2019

Feeling safe walking down the street.

The years I had ahead of me when I was still young. Now as an elder I see the sands in the hour glass running out. I plan for the next five or ten years, not the next forty or fifty.

People caring about their appearance. I don't mean dressing up in suits or dresses and pearls every day, but not wearing pajama bottoms in public, spaghetti strap shirts with rolls of fat hanging out, ugly neck and face tattoos, etc. Looking and behaving like trash is all too common nowadays.

R105 living in the now is the most intense way to live. Never forget how many people die young.

I miss going to Oscars or the Barracks in Palm Springs on Sunday afternoons.

I miss the first few puffs of a joint in my long ago college days..... it was a gentle buzz, not scarey. Caused food and sex to be more pleasure able. Allowed me a few seconds of actually being ok with being gay

Donkey Basketball fundraisers and Harvey Edwards ballet prints

My figure.

Not thinking about dying .

The Waltons