Jun 16, 2020, 3:51 PM

Not that pollution ever left, but there was some significant progress in some areas, within living memory. Also the same people who say that kind of dumb shit would be the first to be pissed if other people just flung their garbage out the car window by their house and other people let their dogs shit all over their yard. 😄

I totally get the irritation over helicopter parents of the current time, I certainly had quite a few other mommies waggle their finger at me for letting my group of 3 older kids roam our property and a neighbor's (with permission) unsupervised (undeveloped land backed into a greenbelt with a shallow creek, kid paradise). And be shocked that I would drive preteens to the mall and then let them be while I sat in the bookstore cafe (I would have gone home but it's a long enough drive to make that irritating and hey, bookstore cafe).

But idealizing that era is stupid. Especially because of the domestic violence, and really gruesome injuries at low speed that are less prevalent.