Things We Used To Do

This week, GamerDude is talking about experiences that used to be an ordinary part of peoples' lives that no longer are. He talks about the experience of reading a road map (as well as folding and unfolding one) and how the entire road map experience is no longer necessary. He talks about the Sunday paper, and his ritual of reading it, and the advertising flyers in it. He talks about Service Merchandise, and shopping at a catalog store.GamerDude also remembers huddling around the radio on snowy mornings, waiting for the school-closing announcement. It was very different when he was a kid, in the pre-internet, pre-cable days, when school closing announcements were only given out over a select few radio stations. GamerDude also remembers the experience of being on your own and doing your own thing as a kid, with a minimal amount of parental supervision, and he discusses why that experience is lost to our kids these days.