Registered: Apr 2009
Location: Dover, Ohio
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I was in town yesterday and noticed that all of todays trucks are missing something " a gun rack". I'm only 38 years old, but I can remember that about every truck in town use to have a rifle or shotgun in the back window.

Heck I remember in our high school parking lot that at least 10 or so trucks use to have a gun in the window (YOU WILLN'T SEE THIS ANY MORE). The boys and I would get off school and shoot some squirrel, groundhogs, or go rabbit hunting. I always had at least a shotgun in the back window, windows would be down, and I would go in to the store and get what I needed, come back out and the gun would always be there.

I'm sure gun laws, thieves, and public perception has changed the way we do things, but for some reason I miss those days.

Eric

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I miss those day's too and i'm just 40. I remember when a truck was a truck! It wasn't a show piece it was part of your farm and it looked it! ALL the guys had trucks and mud was just what came with them. haha and back then never heard of anyone shootin your dogs!

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now most trucks have a back seat and sliding back glass. with all the extra room i just keep my rifle in the seat beside me with barrel in the floorboard. alot easier to get off a quick shot than wrestling it out of a gun rack....LOLOL

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I went to a small town school too and for a guy eaven a girl to carry a pocket knife was nothing unusual
THOSE DAYS ARE GONE !!!
The days when the boys got in trouble for dipping in school or smoking in the boys room. GONE!!!
When my oldest was in ELEMENTRY school he almost got EXPELED for NOT telling about another boy that had a knife NOW THATS LAME!!!!
Yep GOOD OL DAYS ARE GONE!!!!!
I remember the days when you could TRUST your neighbor,teachers and COPS!!!
We have lost a teacher and a DARE cop in our schools for having sexual relations with underage students in the last few years
YEP THE GOOD OL DAYS ARE GONE!!!!!!!
I hope that they get it in the BIG HOUSE nasty F****.......

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I grew up 15 min. from Wash, DC. in Alexandria Virginia..

When I was 10 and Under I went to the Turkey Shoot with my Brothers and Father that was next to The Super Chief Drive-in Movie Theater on Little River Turnpike in Alexandria which is now all Apartments ..

Durring High School which I did Grad. in 1977, we had Smoking Lounges and Additional time between Classes so you could get your Cig. Smoked.. We had Streakers durring Lunch quite Often and a Durring Few Football Games.. In Shop class we had Gun Safety and Gun Cleaning Days ..

Durring Trapping Season I would walk to School and Check my trapline on the way then Skin what I cought durring Shop Class and Put Carcauses In the Caffiatrea Dumpster ..

We would offend Swap our Guns to Different Vehicals Durring School when a Group of Us were headed to Quantico to go Deer Hunting for the Afternoon..

Drinking Age was 18 for Beer and Wine and I turned 18 durring my Junior Year (I was a Year Behind thanks to the "Tough" 3rd. Grade)

Which Lead to a Fun Filled Ending to High School ..

TIMES SURE HAVE CHANGED !!! Just 15 min From Washington, D.C.

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I went to a small town school too and for a guy eaven a girl to carry a pocket knife was nothing unusual
THOSE DAYS ARE GONE !!!
The days when the boys got in trouble for dipping in school or smoking in the boys room. GONE!!!
When my oldest was in ELEMENTRY school he almost got EXPELED for NOT telling about another boy that had a knife NOW THATS LAME!!!!
Yep GOOD OL DAYS ARE GONE!!!!!
I remember the days when you could TRUST your neighbor,teachers and COPS!!!
We have lost a teacher and a DARE cop in our schools for having sexual relations with underage students in the last few years
YEP THE GOOD OL DAYS ARE GONE!!!!!!!
I hope that they get it in the BIG HOUSE nasty F****.......

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and those days willnever return and its sad to see. like some of yall i miss the gun racked, mud covered, jacked up pick-up trucks< with the cb and 20ft whip antenna and dog box on back....oh and dont foget the spit down side of the truck with the girl sitting next to you!

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im only 26 and i can remember in elementry school i dressed up as a hunter for halloween. i carried a 22 to school but my uncle took the bolt out so it was ok. lol try to get away with that one today...heck i would still be in prison!!!! I love western PA but the liberals are starting to get their way here too.

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I was raised on my great grandaddy's knee. He died at 106 years old and I was 5. He promised his mamma that he wouldn't go fight in the civil war till he was 16 and that is how old he was when the war ended. The two things he never said was Yankee without an explative in front of it and FDR. He was a Frenchman.
At 106 he was like an ambassador that all the polititions would come around and want to get their picture taken with. And since I was his "sweetson" I'd be in the pictures. Kind of funny now, but after the politicians were gone he'd lean over to me, like I was a little King Tut, and say "I wish that boy the best. You ought to know his grand daddy was a carpetbagger."

Yep, times have changed.

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I know this maybe off subject but i don't see kids playing football in the yards anymore. We had a game every saturday and sunday when i was in school.

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Its hard to find kids outside doing anything these days! We was the same way. If it wasn't hunting season of some kind. We were outside doing something. That's why we have a society of fat lazy people now.

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Heck if things boring We Rebuilt the Tree House and Added some new Feature ...

Or a Good Old Squirrel hunt with a Cheep Dasiy BB Gun after Several Hundred BBs later sometimes we would knock one Out..

Hell I still have a Soor Neck thinking About those Hunts "Looking Stright Up for an Hour or So

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they'd have a lock down at schools today if someone even came to school with a gun in the truck, if they knew about it.

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Are gone. I am 28 and almost got expelled for bringing the wooden stock off my 22 into the shop at school so I could dowel, and glue the stock back together where it had been "Shortened" for me as a kid.

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Its hard to find kids outside doing anything these days! We was the same way. If it wasn't hunting season of some kind. We were outside doing something. That's why we have a society of fat lazy people now.

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Don't blame the kids. They haven't changed. Same thing comeing out of the womb. I am 51 and see a lot of change since I was in school BUT the kids haven't changed. It is how they are brought up that has changed.
Took there guns,buy them to much cheap crap, pay to much attention the there wants, ask them to do things instead of telling them to, let the fear of jail stop us from spanking there but when needed and let some cry baby nerd give them a pink slip for spiting in the grass.
I went to jail for hitting my underaged son in the mouth in front of a cop. Didn't cost me nothing but a night in city. When they moved me to county the next day the the DA refused to press charges. My so was 17 and 6'5". He called me something he new better than to do out of anger. It done him good it done me good and we would do ANYTHING FOR EACH OTHER ANY TIME ANY PLACE. He is a great man and I am very proud of him. He will still stand up and speak his mind, is in the army and turned out great.
By the way though when I was little the lessons began early. They didn't put things in the elec. sockets. You were punished for messing with them. Same way with guns. They were loaded. I raised 2 kids and baby set hundreds and the guns were allways loaded.

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And when granny said DON'T touch that you didn't! Dad said, go get, you got your butt moving or his foot was in it. I"m a supervisor at my work, i get alot of first time job kids. Let me tell you there's not enuf pills to help some of those day's with those just off mom's (you know). I told one girl one day.... look princess i know daddy sat you on his knee and said you were beautiful and could be anything you wanted to be..... But here we work, we don't just stand and look cute, we work! ARGH!
My boss asked me one day how it was going and i said do you really want to know? He decided he did and i told him " IF these kids were around my daddy, he would have done put his boot up their A$$ which is exactally what i would like to do!" He informed me that we can't do that here! YEA no kidding......
During my evaluation i was called "rough around the edges" by my supervisor..... I told him it was just his politically correct way of calling me a redneck! He laughed and said yea it was!

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they'd have a lock down at schools today if someone even came to school with a gun in the truck, if they knew about it.

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This is a great post!

I grew up going straight to the woods everyday after school like a lot of you did, too! A lot of you have brought back some great memories of the BB gun hunts as a young boy to the big trucks with guns in them parked on the high school parking lot after duck hunting that morning before school.

I have three boys of my own now and I'm doing my best to raise them right! They are told what to do and if they don't obey there are immediate consequences (as a result we don't have to deal with disobedience).

They are taught right from wrong and taught respect. And as a result they rarely act up at home and never get in trouble at school.

They play outside in the woods most days after school. And as a result they know how to entertain themselves and aren't fat, sloppy, video game nerds that have to have high tech electronics to keep themselves busy.

When they get in an argument or fight (if it's not too bad) I make them sort it out for themselves. As a result, they aren't little tattle-tales and are figuring out how to deal with people in a productive way and work out their differences (even though we have a busted lip or bloody nose once in a while).

I'm not saying my kids are perfect or that I'm the perfect parent (far from it)! All I'm saying is that kids need to be kids and parents need to be parents (not best buddies). Kids need to be given responsibility and they need to know our expectations (which need to be more than most parents have these days) and our kids would be better off for it.

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This is a great post!

I grew up going straight to the woods everyday after school like a lot of you did, too! A lot of you have brought back some great memories of the BB gun hunts as a young boy to the big trucks with guns in them parked on the high school parking lot after duck hunting that morning before school.

I have three boys of my own now and I'm doing my best to raise them right! They are told what to do and if they don't obey there are immediate consequences (as a result we don't have to deal with disobedience).

They are taught right from wrong and taught respect. And as a result they rarely act up at home and never get in trouble at school.

They play outside in the woods most days after school. And as a result they know how to entertain themselves and aren't fat, sloppy, video game nerds that have to have high tech electronics to keep themselves busy.

When they get in an argument or fight (if it's not too bad) I make them sort it out for themselves. As a result, they aren't little tattle-tales and are figuring out how to deal with people in a productive way and work out their differences (even though we have a busted lip or bloody nose once in a while).

I'm not saying my kids are perfect or that I'm the perfect parent (far from it)! All I'm saying is that kids need to be kids and parents need to be parents (not best buddies). Kids need to be given responsibility and they need to know our expectations (which need to be more than most parents have these days) and our kids would be better off for it.

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Originally posted by Sheriff Andy
my oldest son got a pink slip for spitting in the grass in elementary school

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Another thing, in the summer time I would ride a horse 30 miles or more just about every day. You can't get kids to even beleive that these days. Of course it would be hard to find a horse these days in good enought shape to go 30 miles. Becouse they don't get ridden.

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Just one more note~

School bus stops.
What is up with that?

You weren't there, you got left.
And they didn't stop at our front door.

"Nuff said!

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I read this post and I am a lot younger than most that have posted here. I am 25. I grew up on a ranch, and that meant we did chores as soon as were able to and sometimes before we were able to. I remember at the age of 4 we had to get firewood for the house even if that meant one log at a time. I have younger brothers and sisters that did not have those same experiences and to my other little brother who grew up identical to me, it pisses us off watching these kids complain when they have to do the dishes once a week, we did it after every meal, my mom cooked and we cleaned up. I work in a Psychiatric hospital for kids and most of them are just spoiled brats that don't get their way and say stupid crap like "I am going to kill myself if you do buy me a wii". Our society has gotten to the point we reward the hard working by reinforcing the lazy.

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btt

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