Anonymous wrote:"Nothing can go faster than the speed of light."

Central Jersey specific: Arguing which way to turn the rotor when one person wanted to watch a NYC station on one TV and another wanted to watch a Philadelphia station on the other TV.

I grew up in the Shenandoah Valley -- you turned it one way for Hagerstown (25 and 31), one way for Harrisonburg (3 and 42), and a third way for DC (4/5/7/9/20/26). Although channels 9, 20, and 26 were more theoretical than actual. So we had *three* directions to argue about. They had channel 60 out in Martinsburg for a while in the 80s and 90s, and channels 50/53/66 were only a rumor to me ... channel 28 showed up in the mid 1980s and did religious programs.

At least that was better than my dad, who was stuck with 4/5/7/9/20 (I think they had 20 in the 1950s).

Anonymous wrote:From my mom's childhood, not mine:

"Go out and cut a switch. You're getting a beating."

this is from my childhood in the 90s

"go outside and yell to your brother that dinner's ready" -- yelling aimed into the woods behind our house, AKA our playground

other parent-sanctioned, woods-related things that we did as kids that would never happen now (in part because those woods have been turned into a neighborhood):
-- walking the dog along the trails to the abandoned quarry about a mile behind our house
-- heading out with friends along those same trails for a bonfire at the "fire rock"

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stay in this car and don't unlock the doors, I'll be back in half an hour.

My parents would do this all the time...only it was not unusual for them to be in the store/mall for hours shopping.

Totally, and everyone in our parents' generation now seems to deny this fact.