THIS hit me where I live…

@JustGoneNow 💯 on the street lights! 😆

@Harmonium1923 @JustGoneNow
Same here.

@bijouxbroussard that’s only when I was in town too, but it was usually sundown on the ranch. It’s a lot of land and there’s dangerous stuff you can’t see at night.

@sarabee1995 t Something I’ve noticed with friends now (I don’t comment on it, but it’s weird to me); there’s almost like a "short order cook" approach, making different meals for each family member.

My friends’ daughter decided to go vegan, so her mother made her special vegan meals separate from the others, youngest son decided he only wanted ramen—that’s what he got.

I wondered what would’ve happened if I’d decided I no longer wanted to eat meat as a kid ? Possibly I would’ve just been given extra vegetables to replace the meat. When my mother became a vegetarian years later, that was how she adapted her personal meals, while cooking meals that included meat for the rest of the family.

I learned to cook vegan and vegetarian meals so that when I visited home I could prepare dishes especially for Mom that the others might enjoy, too.

@bijouxbroussard for me, it’s just us two. I eat what she eats. Ha ha.

When I was a kid… we were a food producer, so I ate what was served or went hungry until the next meal.

@bijouxbroussard Yeah, a LOT of my friends' houses were like that when I was growing up ("short order cook" meal times). And I think my mom would've been like that except that my dad was so against the concept. We didn't do regular breakfast or lunch as a family, but dinner we did. And it was one meal. It was a big thing for my grandfather as well ... likely where dad got it from.

@Carla I think it’s also a rural country thing. Most of the time I was with my parents way out in the country on their land and even today cell service out there sucks. I can get one bar in the farmhouse but most of the 400 acres there’s no service at all. The swimming pond on our land doesn’t but if you hike it about a mile and a half to the low rise hill out there you can get about half a bar. Needless to say, most of my childhood out there was similar to yours.

@Micro My brother put his broccoli in an envelope and offered to mail it to whichever "starving children" whose address could be found. ☺️

@robingoodfellow I'm jealous. That sounds like a great summer as a kid. Glad you got to experience that :)

@Axeroberts John Walsh doesn’t think so.

@Axeroberts We did have the Zodiac Killer. I remember that putting a damper on us being out too late.

@bijouxbroussard i remember the son of sam but that was not what was going on where i was. not to mention Charles Manson

@PhilDeep I learned some basic snacks that I made for myself and my siblings.

@caPnAhab Were you the youngest child ?

@bijouxbroussard I was the oldest.... living at the house anyways

@Iwantyourhotwife I don’t know that we’re at war as much as technology has really changed some things in a more obvious way. Some things some of us miss from those days, but not everything.

@Pfuzylogic Now we didn’t have that, but we disliked broccoli for much of our lives because Mom boiled it to sludge (désolé, Maman). Later, when I discovered steamed broccoli with butter, it was a revelation. 😊

@bijouxbroussard
My mom hates cooking. Once I left the home she finally got Spaghetti down! 😅

@LordShadowfire