New Jersey Helo Collision

WacoFan said:
I loved the 80's. I'm glad I was young before the internet. I can't explain or express that thought enough.
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To this day I can rattle off friends phone numbers that I haven't called for at least two decades, that was the only means of other than in person communication we had. Answering machines were fair game for pranks, because there was normally one phone line per house, but if you went down that road you'd better expect some retribution. I witnessed some folks kids getting dirty enough to almost break up their parents marriage. Life without any sort of digital tether, it was up to you to be responsible and a good person because we were all just packs of feral kids with (hopefully) a home to go to at the end of the day. There's a reason why Gen X is so much different than the generations that preceded and followed us and it didn't always lead to good results. We were forced to have some notion of personal responsibility because, as I said, we were basically feral. For many of us both parents worked, the housewife was seen as a bad thing and helicopter parenting hadn't been invented yet. If you were a scoundrel the other feral kids would either straighten you out or alienate you so it behooved the youth to emulate the better parts of human nature required to maintain a pack of wild kids. We're lucky to have been teenagers in the '80s.
 
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