rightwinger
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1. Cigarettes
Use and frequency is way down as are places to smoke. Prices are way up
2. Tombstones
Cremation is gaining acceptance and your future "monument" may be on Facebook
3. Voting Booths
Everyone will be able to vote on-line. No need to pull the lever
4. Classrooms
Kids will attend school through a video link and computer access
5. Playgrounds
They are getting smaller and smaller and less and less fun
My playground was built for speed and no sissies were allowed.
Everything was steel set in concrete that was 'padded' with sand.
Now it's platic set very deep into concrete with ground up rubber as padding.
Yeah, we're raising a bunch of whimps. When I was a kid, the monkey bars were 14 feet high over a slab of cement and if you fell and didn't crack your head open you were sent right back out to climb them again. Today they are 5 feet high over 12 inches of foam and if they fall, the school nurse is called to make sure there's no trauma.
Damn right
10 ft swings you could launch yourself off of. Slides that you were scared to climb up and burnt your ass in the summer. Climbing was climbing as you hung upside down by your knees eight feet over concrete.
Merry go rounds that you would spin at insane speeds and get off and take a walk down queer street