17 Commonly Unique Experiences From Back In The Day
"We had a milkman who delivered orders to our house in the '70s. He had a key and would let himself in, announcing his presence. Then, he'd put our order in the refrigerator. Looking back, it seems wild that this was a thing."
—jillcurryj
"You used to be able to call 'INFO' and ask anything: the time, the date, geography questions, etc. I used to even call her (it seemed like it was always a woman) just to talk. It was awesome when your childhood kinda sucked."
"Phone lines were shared with neighbors. If you wanted to make a call, you'd have to wait until other people were done talking on the line, but you could definitely listen in on other people's conversations. There were also no zip codes at the time. Eventually, it was the norm to have two-digit codes. We had that for 20 years. In the 1960s, zip codes became five digits."
—Sudi, 71, Florida
"Our high school actually had a 'smoking yard' where kids could light up!"
"We used to live in a small town in Utah. Every week, a Bookmobile would come to our town, and I'd go check out some books. It was basically like a mobile library. It was so cool!"
—Jessica, 55, Arizona
"I grew up in the late '50s and '60s. Our doctor would come to our house to treat my brothers and me. He'd just show up with whatever he needed in his briefcase, and that was that."
"We never wore bike helmets, and our cars didn't have seatbelts. If you sat in the passenger seat, you'd just have to hope that the driver would fling their arm across your body if they had to suddenly brake to stop you from flying into the windshield. Good times, am I right?"
—Jean, Florida
"There was a liquor store a couple of blocks away from our house. In the '70s, my mom would give me a note, and I'd buy cigarettes and liquor. I was 11 or 12 at the time, and it seemed like a perfectly normal thing to do."
"Movie theaters often had special matinees for kids on Saturdays. The theater would be full of kids and no adults. Often, the movies were special horror shows with gimmicks like skeletons flying overheard or rubber snakes tossed through the audience. There were some really great flicks, too, like Mysterious Island and Jason and the Argonauts."
—odaydaniel
"There were no 'easy-care' floors. Our kitchen floor was made of thick, linoleum tiles. Heels would make black scuff marks on the floor, and even regular walking damaged the shine. So, once a month, my mom would 'strip' the floor (remove the shiny wax), apply new wax, and buff the floor to a pretty shine using an electric tool — almost like a vacuum that had soft wool pads."
"When I was born in 1967, the hospital had a labor room separate from the delivery room. Women stayed in the labor room until they were ready to push. My mother smoked up until she got wheeled into the delivery room to birth me. My dad held the cigarette to her lips. No wonder I only weighed six pounds."
—blissbednar
"Much to the chagrin of virtually everyone I knew, I cloth-diapered my now-18 and 12-year-old kids when they were infants. It was easy to manage and cost-effective, even as a working mom. They both became potty-trained by the age of 2, and I have zero regrets knowing that we didn't contribute to the current landfills."
"When I first got my period in 1978, what we now call 'pads' were either 'belted' or 'belt-less.' All the pads my mother had were belted, so I had to wear a belt until she got me regular, belt-less ones. The belt was elastic and about a half-inch or so wide, and it went around your waist and through your butt crack like a thong."
—blissbednar
"We'd drink from the yard hose if we got thirsty. The '70s was a bit wild."
"I was able to wear pants in sixth grade from 1975–1976. Until then, it was either culottes, dresses, or skirts, which required shorts underneath."
—Anonymous
"Where I lived, the national anthem at midnight. Then, it'd just be a snowy screen."
Lastly: "In the 1960s, all of the public school buses in my hometown (and surrounding cities in South Carolina) employed high school students to drive them. I was one of those drivers. To apply, you had to be a licensed driver, have a clean driving record, have completed a state training program, and passed all the written and road tests. It was a great job, like getting paid just to drive to and from school. We'd even drive elementary students. We were all safe drivers because our jobs depended on it, and we knew many eyes were on us. The middle school students were annoying, but otherwise, everyone else was well-behaved."
—Barry, 73, Georgia
Well, I'm very glad that schools no longer have "smoke yards." If you're an older adult, what are some common but unique experiences from the past that would have younger people genuinely confused? Let us know in the comments, or you can anonymously submit your story using the form below!
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Well, that's what happened when LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian met filming Northern Lights in 2008. At the time, Rimes (the singer and actor) was married to dancer Dean Sheremet, and Third Watch star Cibrian was married to Brandi Glanville, who would later channel the fallout into a Real Housewives career. The affair started on set — with kisses caught on a restaurant security camera, according to US magazine — and was obvious to Sheremet when he visited. He said, "There was this bar that everyone hung out at after set and I remember coming down the stairs and seeing the two of them shooting pool together. I could just tell by the body language that everything had changed. My stomach dropped... I literally felt like I got hit." Glanville, meanwhile, slashed the tires of Cibrian's motorcycles, and then, writing for Glamour, said, "My heartache probably lasted a lot longer than it should have, because in the old days, you broke up with someone, you never saw me again. 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We wrote about the dumbest things celebrities have ever said: CeeLo Green — after pleading no contest in 2014 to giving ecstasy to a woman (who has no memory between going to dinner with him and waking up naked in his bed) — tweeted 'People who have really been raped REMEMBER!!!' He later deleted the tweet and subsequent ones, including one which said, 'If someone is passed out they're not even WITH you consciously! so WITH Implies consent.'If you're wondering why you haven't seen much of the "Crazy" singer for a while, now you more dumb celeb quotes here. And lastly, we wrote about the scandals Trump wormed his way out of by gaslighting us: WHAT WE SAW WITH OUR OWN DAMN EYES: On June 28, 2020, Trump retweeted a video of a white man — driving a golf cart with signs reading "Trump 2020" and "America First" — yelling "White power!" at protestors. WHO ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE? TRUMP OR YOUR LYING EYES? The White House stated that Trump hadn't heard the "White power" chant before retweeting it. Following criticism, Trump deleted the tweet. Simple as that! Trump didn't hear the guy yell "White power!" in a video he decided to send to tens of millions of Americans. What about "didn't hear," do you liberals not get?See more Trump scandals here. Need a palette cleanser after all of that? Maybe click over to 50 legendary standup comedians' funniest jokes ever:
