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Things I don't miss.

post #1 of 47
6/14/07 at 5:55am
Thread Starter 
I was thinking early this week for some reason about things I don't miss here are my top three what are yours?
  1. I don't miss 8 track cassette tapes (yeah I am old)
  2. I don't miss the daily O.J news reports
  3. I don't miss cleaning the line every night when I was a line cook


*Lets keep this lighthearted :p
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post #2 of 47
6/14/07 at 6:36am
I don't miss working at a food co-op when the Grateful Dead come to town.
(Restock the patchouli on aisle 10!)

Nor do I miss hearing details of Monica Lewinsky's love life or weight loss/gain.

I don't miss Jerry Falwell, though I hope his heavenly aspirations have all come true.
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post #3 of 47
6/14/07 at 6:44am
I don't miss the smell of the vynil covers of my mother's 1973 Dodge Dart. It made my sister and I sick on long drives on hot summer days.

I don't miss the dailly report on Anna Nicole Smith's daughter's diaper count. What: too soon?
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post #4 of 47
6/14/07 at 7:03am
I don't miss the extremely hot summers of SE Georgia (but I do miss the mild winters!).

I don't miss cassette tapes that got hung in the player and unraveled, ruined forever.

I don't miss 80s and earlier country music. lol
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post #5 of 47
6/14/07 at 7:43am
Thread Starter 
Speaking of the 80's I totally forgot something I don't miss

Parachute Pants!!!!
Vanilla Ice
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post #6 of 47
6/14/07 at 8:53am
I don't miss cooking and baking on a wood and coal stove. Yeah, I'm old too!

I don't miss going camping with babies when the only diapers available were cloth! :cry:

I don't miss washing all the dishes and pots from banquet dinners, by hand, at the Elks club. :crazy:

I don't miss having to stand in those god awful pointy toed spiked heels 8hrs. a day trying to sell clothing. :eek:

I don't miss mini skirts trying to cover my chubby bottom and thighs. Oy! :blush:

That was fun! Thanks Nicko!
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post #7 of 47
6/14/07 at 9:03am
Good thread, Nicko! I don't miss...
  • being single :D
  • cars without seat belts :eek:
  • nylon stockings (pre-pantyhose) :suprise:
  • my culinary life before I discovered Chef Talk!
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post #8 of 47
6/14/07 at 9:19am
Yeah, but every guy I know misses them! :))
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post #9 of 47
6/14/07 at 12:19pm
I certainly don't miss pantyhose! That's why I pursued the career I have now.

But, I beg to differ, I do miss being able to buy real silk stockings.
Nothing makes a girl feel more feminine (or her guy feel hunky) than wearing a pair of black pure silk stockings with a seam up the back under a kicky silk skirt.
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post #10 of 47
6/14/07 at 5:39pm

My 2 cents worth

I don't miss....

Sleepless nights with young babies

Cleaning my aquarium

Wearing a boob tube :crazy:

8" floppy discs

Windows 98



Great thread Nicko thanks !
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post #11 of 47
6/14/07 at 5:55pm
There's not too much I actually miss, that's what memory is for. Everything that used to annoy me doesn't seem to bother me anymore. And usually, things that I didn't like taught me something about myself.
For example, The Bangles music being played every 30 minutes on the radio.

Things I do miss?
The energy I had when I was younger.
The looks I had when I was younger.
Some of the girls I had when I was younger. (oh man, if I only knew then what I know now)
33' albums and a solid pioneer system to play them on.
Those old WW3 movies (Red Dawn, WW3 etc)

Cat Man
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post #12 of 47
6/14/07 at 7:33pm

I don't miss...

...the girl who ditched me because I got mad at her for using me (btw, shes been trying to contact me...ppffttt ya, like I'm gonna open those doors ever again)

...scratched CDs that won't play on my diskman that had a battery life of only 3hours

...highschool. Going to Oakwood CI was the second biggest mistake of my life.

...my first computer, the 1 that sounded like a shop-vac on steriods. Funny how my current rig that runs 200x faster and has more fans runs far more scilent.
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post #13 of 47
6/14/07 at 7:38pm
Cleaning the vents.

Deliming the Groen.
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post #14 of 47
6/14/07 at 7:42pm
Hey Headless Chx
Where is Oakwood>
I went to Northern Secondary at Eglinton and Mt Pleasant

Cat Man
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post #15 of 47
6/15/07 at 5:07am
[QUOTE I do miss being able to buy real silk stockings.
Nothing makes a girl feel more feminine (or her guy feel hunky) than wearing a pair of black pure silk stockings with a seam up the back under a kicky silk skirt.[/QUOTE]

The imagery conjured up by the above response forced me to turn on the air-conditioner! :)

doc
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post #16 of 47
6/15/07 at 5:58am
Things I don't miss? Hmmmm Let's see. A couple are the "could have done without" too.

Professionally? Cleaning grease traps, hand writtten tickets, Dog and Pony show's (when the big cheese comes to visit), Premadona servers, 11 months without a day off, working for restaurant owners that don't have a clue about running a restaurant.

Personally? Life before I was married, sitting in Atlanta traffic, working in Mid-Town, living in Chicago area (traffic and population only), High School
(some people/things), half the neighbors we've ever had (past only), living in KCMO, console stereos, electronics components with tubes, bias ply tires, whitewalls, vinyl roofs, talk of metric conversion, 55mph speed limit, gas lines (especially when pumping the gas), most of 70's (except for some of the music) and part of the 80's and 90's. Mullets, ABA, WFL, Baseball strike, Baseball after the strike....:rolleyes:
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post #17 of 47
6/15/07 at 7:15am
spike heels.....seems they would get wedged between the cracks in the sidewalk. Cripplers of young women.

having to dress up and wear makeup to impress my ex-husband's peers.....15 years of high heels, designer clothes and makeup. UGH...crocs, birks, elastic waist pants and a t-shirt please.....dress up only on occasion....gotta be one of the biggest assets of the profession.

Setting up market at 5am Saturday mornings....24 Sat mornings in a row.....rain, 100*heat, wind......

Louisiana June-Sept. 100*+ weather, 100% humidity....and it's not raining.

Camping on the ground....just does not feel good anymore, enough to escew it and bypass rustic shroom camping trips. Toliets are nice/showers nice/beds necessary.

1980's in western Louisiana we had to travel 1.5 hours to Alexandria to buy Granny Smith apples......

Root canals that took weeks instead of a couple of hours

Lack of good cheeses......seems like the good shtuff has been around forever but artisan cheeses in large numbers are fairly new to the marketplace. Guess it was Monterrey Jack, Munster, Cheddar, Swiss and blue cheese growing up....oh and limberger that no one actually ate.

Artisan beers.....boy howdy remember when it was a big deal in 1971-2 to get ahold of Coors?
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post #18 of 47
6/15/07 at 8:09am
Thread Starter 
I don't even want to know how that happened. Uggh sorry to hear about that.
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post #19 of 47
6/15/07 at 10:33am
Oakwood ave + St. Clair ave West
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post #20 of 47
6/15/07 at 5:19pm
1970 root canals would take multiple visits over an extended period of time...now they complete a root canal in one visit. Not sure about the hows or whys but it's a vastly improved process.
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post #21 of 47
6/15/07 at 6:25pm

Ummm...your guy feels hunky wearing black stockings?

At the same time or do you trade off...?

BAHAHAHAHA!!!

Lemme see...
I am SO LOOKING FORWARD to not missing ANYthing about Hilton, Brittany's crotch or Anna Nichol.
I don't miss being married.
I don't miss my theraputic oxford shoes I had to wear up until I entered High School.
I don't miss the oversized Layne Bryant ugly sacks for freaky tall and "overweight" (which amounted to anything over a size 8) teens.
Cramps once a month (yeah, I'm older too...:smoking:)
Weekly Diet Fads

April
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post #22 of 47
6/16/07 at 8:10am
Hmm.... I don't miss:

-- wedding catering gigs that lasted until 2am
-- picking up dog poop in kennels when I worked with a vet
-- peppermint schnopps
-- leg warmers
-- aqua net
-- cold second day dorm room coffee after programming in pascal all night in the computer room
-- mean people
-- bad raw oysters (bad enough on the way down...)

Stocking side note -- I recently found out the power of stockings and strappy heels... I had no idea! Scary to think if they would have handed us a secret manual at 21.... ;)
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post #23 of 47
6/16/07 at 9:39am
how about:

Boone's Farm Strawberry (and other tutti-frutti flavors) "Wine"

then Zellar Swartzkatz

then Liebfermilch

about that time it was Heinekins and Becks Dark

I think Lancers was big as was Mateus......

Drinking age was 18 in both Memphis and New Orleans....not good.......

French chauvinist chefs, especially when you're young and female.

Cross country family vacations that took weeks in unair conditioned automobiles.....annoying kid brother taking up more than his fair share of the backseat.

Hair rollers you slept in prior to blow driers and curling wands.....or the electric rollers.......

Farrah Facett layered hair, how much time does it take to style it?????

white gloves on Sunday.....how long does it take for them to turn brown or one to disappear?

rough petti coats on the backs of tender legs so that your "nice" dress will flair

nuns with rulers
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post #24 of 47
6/16/07 at 9:58am
Thread Starter 
:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
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post #25 of 47
6/16/07 at 1:18pm
How can you say that about my (then) favorite: Annie Green Springs! :eek:

The hair styling thing.... I think I was seriously damaged by the hair styling disasters of that period. :rolleyes: My curly-hair friends used orange juice cans (they used to be metal, remember?) or ironed their hair. Mine was (and still is) stick-straight and resistant to any efforts to make it curl or even bend.
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post #26 of 47
6/16/07 at 1:28pm
I don't miss where I worked 17 yrs, having more fun in my new career.

I don't miss when my twins were infants and I hardly ever got good sleep.

I don't miss my old 286 computer.

I don't miss Boone's either!!!
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post #27 of 47
6/16/07 at 6:14pm
Boone's Farm? Go for the good stuff. Cold Duck all the way!
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post #28 of 47
6/16/07 at 6:43pm
Rulers? I think I tried to block those years out. Forget the ruler. Our Nuns went straight to the chaulkboard pointers. First but definitely not the hand experience with this one.:blush:
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post #29 of 47
6/16/07 at 8:42pm

I don't miss...

...having curfews. My mother was a stickler on that, 8:30pm was bed time, 9pm latest. And when I was out like a light, or at least when she thought I was, out comes the NES and Klax.

...the long lunch breaks at school. This is a sort of miss but don't miss scenario. We use to have at least once per week, 3-4hour breaks between classes so what else would a college freshman do? Well we got like 4 bars in the area, take your pick! Good times, minus when we would all run face first into the doors and get to class late with black eyes and facial bruises.

...going to Chinatown every, litterally EVERY, weekend. Us Chinese can do great food but for the love of god, THE MARKETS STINKS SOMETHING FIERCE! If it rained the day before and next morning is 30C+ and humid, oh dear lord kill me.

...being called "baby" by my grandmother. Up till I was 16, I was known as "Baby" even though I'm only the 2nd yongest. Even she admits that shes losing her mind, can't even remember what day it is let alone wtf to call me when she answers the phone.

...rewinding old tapes after finish watching a movie and risk destroying it in the process. I can't remember how many copys of Mortal Kombat I wasted rewinding it on those stupid rewinding machines. I wanna kiss the person who created DVD videos.
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post #30 of 47
6/16/07 at 8:46pm
Hah some time soon these will be our good old days!

Loving life in my 3rd career.
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