The Saddest thing that reminds you that you're old...

[D'Snowth]

THIS!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/l_dawg2000/galleries/72157634693330407/?rb=1

I remember the days of yore when grocery stores (specifically Kroger) looked like this inside (except those aisle markers hanging from the ceilings are little too modern for the rest of the decor) . . . man I got almost emotional looking at these pics.

 

[LittleJerry92]

To be honest,

I saw a small little playground when I traveled down to Medford to look at a park I may be going in to take some pictures for my job. It reminds me of the fact that I'd look like a pedo going down a slide or on the swings now.

 

[D'Snowth]

To be honest,

I saw a small little playground when I traveled down to Medford to look at a park I may be going in to take some pictures for my job. It reminds me of the fact that I'd look like a pedo going down a slide or on the swings now.

I had a similar problem trying to film my ANYWHERE YOU LIVE IS HOME pseudo-autobiographical road movie years ago: I tried doing it during the day when kids would be at school and parents off to work, in order to avoid pulling up to film footage of old houses I used to live in, and finding kids running and screaming and parents coming out and calling the cops on me for being a pervert and pedophile.

 

[LittleJerry92]

Sounds like something that happened to me a couple weeks ago when I went out to read my Naruto manga on a nice day and I sat on a bench in the kids' area.

 

[fuzzygobo]

25 years ago, my best friend from high school started teaching 5th grade science. At his old grade school. Shades of Welcome Back, Kotter.
I even helped him move his books in. This was 1992. If I ever wanted to stop by after school and say hello, all I had to do was wave at the secretary in the office and she'd say "Go ahead! You know the way!"
And I could walk the hallways with no escort, nobody gave me a second thought. It was that casual.

Not anymore. With every school shooting_ his school becomes that much more like an armed fortress. But it wasn't always that way.

 

[D'Snowth]

I'm going to say it again: my middle school had armed guards before armed guards in schools was normal. Why? Because my middle school was right smack dab in the middle of the ghetto. And even so, at least once a year, we had bomb threats, lock downs, evacuations, and what have you. I remember an incident where our bus was late to take us home one afternoon, a street gang actually walked by us and attempt to mug one of the teachers.

 

[LittleJerry92]

Everytime I hear the ghetto,

I picture a bunch of sketchy, run down duplex houses that are stacked next to each other with gates and "dangerous" dogs like pits, rotties and Dobermans chained to their dog houses on a crummy side walk with grass growing out and a bunch of buffed-up, muscle-bound guys in muscle shirts either high, drunk, or smoking cigarettes.

Wow, I really love being stereotypical, don't I?

 

[D'Snowth]

Nah. Because duplex houses don't even have to be ghetto . . . I've lived in such places at various different points in my life - current live in one and have for going on seven years.

Places like this can be ghettos:

 

[LittleJerry92]

Is.... Is that San Andreas?

#Grovestreet

 

[LittleJerry92]

But no, I'm just being a wise guy lol. I think I've been too exposed in the suburbs.