Times Sure Have Changed.....

[JB]

Times change


1973 VS. 2007
Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack of his truck.
1973: Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack’s rifle, goes to his truck and gets his to show Jack.
2007: School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1973: Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends.
2007: Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario: Jeffrey won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.
1973: Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.
2007: Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping.
1973: Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007: Billy’s Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy’s sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy’s mom has affair with psychologist.
Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some headache medicine to school.
1973: Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007: Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1973: Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2007: Pedro’s cause is taken up by state democratic party. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro’s English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he can’t speak English.
Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1973: Ants die.
2007: BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny’s Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary, hugs him to comfort him.
1973: In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007: Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.


THANK GOODNESS FISHING ONLY KEEPS GETTING BETTER HUH?

[WTL]

I sure do miss the early 70s...

[FlyRod]

Originally Posted by WTL

I sure do miss the early 70s...

Yeah...me too. It was all good, 'cept for Custer's little mishap at the Little Big Horn.

FR
Older than dirt but still in the game.

[betursweetbass]

You left out an important one:


Scenario: Bassfishin.com forum member shares an amusing little tale about bye gone times on the internet.

1973: JB is still in grammer school and cannot write his amusing little diddie unitl after 20 more years go by.
2007: JB is put on a terrorist watch list after being alerted by government internet watch dogs, and strangely disappears 3 weeks later on a fishing trip.

[JB]

LOL close but no cigar bucko!
in 1973 I was a freshman at Miami U in Oxford and doing anything illegal I could get my hands on.
2007 I am watching caller ID for my zookie to call rofl

[betursweetbass]

Okay, I stand corrected mr. cunningham.....

[dampeoples]

Old Farts, in 1973 I was sucking a tit!

[JB]

LOL so was I, in a girls dorm

[Recon8541]

Little big horn!!! 6-25-1876 my birthday!.....but not birth year....jb is the old fart here not me!

[zooker]

Originally Posted by dampeoples

Old Farts, in 1973 I was sucking a tit!

yep same here..

zooker

[texasbasser]

LMAO @ dam and jb..

[crab]

I was 7 lol

[Rebbasser]

Unfortunately, there is a whole lot of truth in that.

[bassbooger]

Shoot!!!

In 1973 I was just an itch in my daddy's pants.

[ToPwAt'R GuY]

LMAO Booger!

[senko]

1973 i wasnt even thought about and my mom was in high school

[1/4 stick]

In 1973 I was a streeker.
Mom and my big sis was trying to give me a bath and I won't having nothing to do with it. I was told the neighbor got a heck of a show watching them try and catch me in the front yard, the neighbor's yard, across the street....