I'm not lying saying we walked 2 miles to school. All the kids did including most of the fat ones. This copper refinery pumped out literally tons of smoke high in sulfur dioxide. Mornings especially were terrible if the wind was right. And it came from that direction too often. Eyes burning. Coughing. Everyone hated it. EPA shut it down in the 80's.
Reminescing about the good old days just warms my heart. You folks a few generations ahead of me dealt with some pretty harsh conditions growing up in general. With that being said I envy your generation. You got to enjoy the best years of your lives without dealing with the mind poison oozing from facebook and social media on a daily basis filling the most uneducated idiots in the country with misinformation and lies that only serve to make them more incompetent and socially dysfunctional. The only thing facebook and twitter have done is give a worldwide platform to idiots so they can spoon feed out of each other's asshole as they spread their hatred and bullshit.
I grew up in the 90's before the internet and cell phones were around for the most part. It wasn't until '99 or so when everyone started carrying cell phones. Nextel anyone?
Having lived my childhood before the technology revolution I have a great appreciation for the way life used to be when the only way you could participate in society was to get out the fucking door and get talk to actual people. Now we've got 10' tall keyboard cowboy troll's that can plop their fat asses in a chair all day wearing a dirty burrito stained wife beater and a pair of BVD's with holes in the ass drinking a busch light as they spread their mind sludge over the internet in between jerking off to fat girls scissoring each other.
Man the 90's were great. Hugh Hefner was rockin the playboy mansion, toys R us was still around, no social media, there was no 9/11, girls used the women's restroom, boys used the men's restroom, and nobody knew what the fuck LGBTQ is. Don't even get me started on this new "non-binary" bullshit. We had bottle rocket wars, we played in the woods, we rode bikes allover town raising hell, there was no MAGA, trump was innocently grabbing women by the pussy instead of driving the country into the ground, nobody called 911 when their feelings got hurt, and billy C was getting oval office blowjobs from a chubby little intern with a nice rack. Dammit the 90's were great