Will somebody tell me about the "Good ole days"?

Question

I guess most people computer literate enough to get on Y!A probably aren't from that generation. It's too bad. I really wouldn't mind hearing some stories about the good ole days. So I can pretend that I'm in the good ole days. Even if just for a minute.

Yahzim: No offense was meant. I said MOST people who are computer literate enough to be on Y!A. Not ALL.

"The good ole days could be/are today" I understand that my good ole days are different than my grandparents' good ole days. But I was referring to a semi-specific time period. I want people who were alive during WWII to tell me about their good ole days. I've always loved my grandparent's stories and the stories of the elderly in my Church. I though yall might have some for me.

I also understand that I'm young and that I'm probably naive. But I'm not naive enough to think that everything was good at any point in time. I'm sure you didn't intend to insult me by saying that, but it is slightly offensive to be have things explained to me that I'm already well aware of.

Answer 1

You mean back when we played outside all day, rode our bikes without helmets, knee pads and the like, when we went to the movies on Saturday and watched the serial chapter by chapter, read books for entertainment and when you got on the team because you were good and knew what it meant to lose or get a bad grade at school, when we were taught we couldn't always have things our own way that we might just have to compromise once in awhile, when hard work was rewarded and when we could leave our doors unlocked even in places like Miami, FL and not have to worry about our things, when we listened to the radio and made the characters up in our minds, when neighbors actually helped each other and we respected our elders? Yes they were good old days and I for one miss a lot of what we had back than although there is a lot to be said for some of what we have now like computers, TV sets, microwave ovens etc. I am old enough to remember the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's as well as the 90's but young enough to have learned to use a computer for work and have a degree in Social Work that I got by taking classes on line. Way to go Yazmin

Answer 2

How "good ole" do they need to be? And I think I might just kinda resent that bit about if I'm young enough to be computer literate, I'm too young to have been part of the "good ole days"!

While I may not remember when there were horse-drawn buggies everywhere, I do have memories of cars that actually lasted longer than 5 years before they fell apart, people that LIKED each other and were pleasant on the street to strangers, helped each other without looking for a reward. I remember children that played for fun without "things" growing out of their ears and hands to feed them electronic stimulation 24 hours a day. I remember leaving my doors and windows unlocked, day and home, while home or on vacation -- and not wondering when someone was going to burst in, rob me, shoot me. I remember when TV entertained with laughter, not obscenity.

Yes, I remember the "good ole days" -- and now I am a computer programmer / administrative slave to the electronics that have taken over our world, instead.

Answer 3

First, your presumption is incorrect. You apply the "Good ole days" to a time period, and you seem to think that the ones who define these days are older. The reality is that the good ole days are "relative", that means that in each one of us there is a different definition. As a 55 year old, my good ole days are different from my son (who is 23).

For example, I can remember that I use to go to the movies with 50 cents. I used 25 cents for admission, a dime for a coke, a dime for popcorn and a nickle for a candy bar. That was cool, and if the movie was good, you could stay at watch it 2 or 3 times. My son's good ole days are real, but they relate to another point in time.

One more thing, its rare when one has the good old days that there were not negatives to accompany the good times. For example, my dad tells me of buying a weeks worth of groceries for $7, but then he didn't have any running water in his house during that same time.

Just remember, your good ole days can be today. Make it a good day and you will cherish it later.

Answer 4

You can pretend it's the good ol days! Great now I have Grandpa tell me bout the good ol days song stuck in my head...That is ok though..Good ol days is when you didn't need a bunch of stuff to entertain yourself..you can do whatever you want to do because it was fun..I live in Kentucky and we use to play a game called Kick the Can...It was Great

Answer 5

I am.

You could let your children out to play without worrying about them being kidnapped.

You didn't have to teach your son about "safe sex", because you knew he wasn't going to have sex until he was married anyway.

You would never see a creature walking down the street, and guess whether it was a woman or a man.

You could actually watch TV without getting emotionally and intellectually insulted in every show.


The hippies ruined our country, pure and simple. The only good they did was that the black people are no longer second-class citizens.

Answer 6

I don't have any good ole days story, but way to defend yourself Ryan-

Answer 7

I was a kid in 70's.i still love black and white movies and songs.All that was in 70's really lovely.I would like to refer to a quotation;
Good old days are right now,they are just passing by quietly.

Answer 8

no such thing I'm afraid. Read history, and you'll find that things have always been screwed up