My Life Was Timed Perfectly. Lived the 70's, 80's & 90's When I was Young & Now I'll Have Almost 50 Years of Normal.

The 80's was a weird time, it's hard to believe I consider that "normal" now.

Man it was fun though. People were people then. Creative and outgoing.

Parody has become reality now. The Onion is going to go out of business.

I'm so very happy I retired before the scam-demic hit...I feel very lucky as well!

I just went next door to where they are building a house, and the contractor recognized me and complemented my work over the years...He used to bring me his fleet for repairs...He said everyone compliments my work and mentions my name around town...it's nice to be recognized and it's far from the first time, though it has been awhile lol

I want to retire into a cabin and write for a living. My biggest obstacle is figuring out who I would be writing to though. I don't know this world anymore.

How old are you OP?

I'm 49, so the decades match, but I would say I didn't really "Live" the 70's, you know...

I absorbed it but didn't live it.

Also, the 80's, by the time I got a car, it was over. 1988 forward sucked as rap and crack replaced rock and weed/Acid. Douchebags with beepers and Z Cavaricci...

The 90's with lumberjack girls out of their minds of superweed too strong for normal people, depressing whiney Grunge...(good movies though)...

The 00's with 911 and realizing how fake and fucked everything is...

The 10's with Obama/Trump cartoon politics

Yuck.

To really have lived the last "Best Days" I think you need to be born...oh...

1958-1960

Old enough to remember the Beatles and the Breakup

Old enough to be able to Catch Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath live

Old enough to have experienced Disco, Quaaludes, LSD (The real kind)

And Old enough to have gotten every scrap of enjoyment out of the 80's and technology before we became it's bitch.

Old enough to have figured some shit out by the 90's and have a job and start a family and avoid the dreary single life of a 20 something trying to navigate those bullshitty waters.

Leaves you plenty if time to play the trumpet which own

Yeah, lucky dude.

I'm in my 40s now. At least the first 20 years were nice. After 911 it went downhill and now every fucking day is a new low.

I played the guitar like every other teenage boy, to get pussy...I'm not all that musically inclined, although I pull off a few killer riffs

I was only a young kid in the 70's but the house I grew up in was very old and in a small town. Everything around me was still 60's and 70's stuff even when the 80's started. I used to listen to my mom's 50's and 60's record albums with big Radio Shack headphones on all through the 80's.

My first concert was the Grateful Dead. I met the band when I worked for a hotel DJ and they gave me the tickets themselves. I talked with them for a while and they thought it was funny that I didn't know much about them.

Yeah, there's not much of a resistance movement where I live. Just me and a town full of boring antisocial zombies.

America was fresh and exciting in the 80s, Every young person emerged out of high school ready to take on the world, whether it was to promote their album, their style, or to travel the world or buy and fix up their first house. Everything was possible back then.

GLP is the most normal people place I know these days.

It's all about the amp.

If you are reading this, you are the resistance...

Yeah, we caught the tail end of lucky. Equal parts analog and digital, we saw the whole transition.

Too bad it's ending so dramatically for everyone.

The highlights of my day today:

I had an interesting dream right before I woke up.

I have a leftover cheeseburger for lunch.

There might be some thunderstorms today. That could be fun.

I don't expect any interesting conversations... I'll go home and maybe clean the kitchen.

Yay. The New Normal.

Exactly we are fucked

I used to love technology. I enjoyed television. Now I haven't had TV since 2008 because I couldn't find anything to watch anymore. And technology is killing everyone's uniqueness, rational thinking and creativity.

People don't know how to be social without texting it in. They all have to hide behind a screen.

I lived through the 60's too. The 70's weren't a great period except for the music. 80's were pretty cool. By the 90's I was raising a family and now I am glad I am almost set to retire.

I moved to Knoxville in 1994 out of high school. I played drums and I made lots of friends, joined numerous bands. I never had a problem meeting people and doing fun things.

Now I'm closer to where I grew up and no one does anything fun. I have to make all my own good times and do them by myself.

I had way too much fun in the 90's... man, I miss it.

Same - I am a little older than HD Harry, but pretty much the same experiences.
Although I could see in the 80's and 90's that society was falling apart fast and already I stopped following the "norm".

But sure as anything I'd take the 80's or 90's over the shit show we have going on today. It really is incredible how many people have lost their minds - or never had one to begin with.
The brainwashing is so complete and pervasive I think GLP people are perhaps 3% of the population.

When I was 11 years old my Dad bought a boat and anchored it in Lake Erie. That summer my brother and I lived on the boat the whole summer, 90% of the time by ourselves.
No cell phones, no nothing. It was great. There was a CB radio on the boat and an AM/FM radio. My Dad said that the only thing we had to do was keep the boat clean, wash the outside every day and polish the chrome once a week. Other than that it was fishing and swimming and snorkeling every day.

What a summer.

I remember going to a local bar a few times recently. The younger people all had their phones out. There was nothing fun to do like perhaps a few pool tables and dart boards. Just people eating, drinking and showing other people stuff they found on their phones.

Now at that same bar, you have to wear a mask every time you stand up. It's beyond insane. And still very boring.

right about why I picked up the electric guitar
did come to love it tho, still do

the solo's are mine

born in '55
still rockin

I used to camp in the Adirondacks each summer. It was a church camp but it was still tons of fun. I remember going under water and finding clams. I learned how to sail and canoe.

I have a new neighbor now that likes to kayak. We get along great. But he only feels comfortable kayaking with his girlfriend and sometimes her dad. He never leaves his apartment unless with her. It was the same story with all the other guys that lived here. I got along with all of them but they were tethered to their girlfriends.

People are afraid to socialize. It drives me crazy.

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Wish you were a neighbor, I'd jam with you.

Wish you were a neighbor, I'd jam with you.

Yeah - here in Canuckistan the media has people so freaked out about CV19 that shaking hands, hugging and talking to someone less than 6' away has become taboo.
They have made everyone afraid of everyone else.
Great way to start a civil war.
Vaxed vs Unvaxed
Black vs White
Left vs Right.
They are dividing the peoples like never before.
Yeah - I miss the old days.
Cheers Harry.