time warps

[walkitout]

I know I grew up in a time warp. But wow, some people _really_ grew up in a time warp. As I was googling around trying to figure out which birth year cohort can be considered the last group for whom payphones were "normal", I ran across this:

http://www.generationcedar.com/main/2013/11/back-in-our-day-if-you-grew-up-in-the-80s-or-the-late-1900s.html

I do indeed understand that southern and/or Christian can result to time warp experiences, but this description had me scratching my head.

"We didn’t wear seat belts. Never crossed our minds. Mom’s arm DID cross our chest if she had to brake fast."

Cars _did_ have seat belts during that time frame, as a result of activism by people like Ralph Nader, and his fans like my father. And my father's hella older than that blogger.

Also, lots of people had VCRs in the 1980s. That's just silly saying otherwise.

Comments

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

There are plenty of people who don't bother with seat belts still, including one of my sisters (I make her put a belt on if she rides in my car). I remember riding with my cousin's wife and her daughters once (this would have been 1989 or 1990, in a small midwestern town) and she not only didn't make her daughters wear seat belts, she had to keep calling to them, "Sit down on your butts, please." My mother was far more adamant about seat belts (if we were in the car that had them -- our old station wagon only had belts in the front seats).

But yeah, in general that blogger sounds more like my age, and she can't have been born when her father was twelve.

[rolandgo.livejournal.com]

Mom was a stickler for belts. Dad had crashed a Corvair. He didn't argue.