- This topic has 58 replies, 43 voices, and was last updated 10 years, 9 months ago by .
-
Posts
-
when you were a little kid?
For me it was drive through car wash and the drive thru at the bank where the deposit was put in the tube and got sucked into the bank.
how everything just seemed to move at a normal pace without all these stupid wireless phones and gadgets and no internet!
going through a car wash and walking over the bridge.
When i was really young, it was writing with a red pen.
I loved our washing machine. I was so excited to be tall enough to do my laundry by myself.
To this day, I find doing laundry very relaxing.
those tall tall tall high school girls and yeshiva bachurim
And whenever we passed by the “twin towers” looking up to see who could spot the tippity top..
Torah
Put that on your shidduch resume :-p
Toll booths, right in the middle of nowhere. It may be an endangered species now.
Escalators!!
Video Games. Which I still think are cool. Also space ships.
Water features, seeing the ocean for the first time, fire trucks, going up and looking over my dad’s shoulder as he leined- there were so many letters, and the smell of parchment.
And WIY- good call. Laundry is one of those things that I thought was universally hated. It’s interesting to see that’s not the case.
The moonlandings. They, and the efforts leading up to them, were the first subject matter that I have ever loved. When I began to study Mishna, Gemara, etc., as an adult I made it a goal to learn to love those Torah study texts the same way I loved spaceflight and the moonlandings. I think I finally achieved that in the last year.
Sandy Koufax not pitching Game One in the World Series because it was Yom Kippur.
Many decades later I researched his record; it appears that never in his 12 year career did he pitch on Yom Kippur.
The time i opened a really long username on a coffeeroom and the mods edited it!
lol that was you?
Interesting thread idea.
Hmmmm……
-Learning that the United States was the most powerful country in the world.
-Finding out an acquaintance’s father drove a taxi (infinitely cooler than a boring office job).
-Learning Moshiach is coming by the year 6000 (practically around the corner!)
-Seeing postage stamps from Israel! With Hebrew lettering!
-Xerox machines (much better than mimeographs). And they don’t even destroy the original!
-Electric pencil sharpeners. (who hasn’t sharpened a pencil down to a nub when first trying out an electric sharpener?)
-A shul that had a Candy Lady as well as a Candy Man (really!)
-Koirim on RH and YC. Al Chait on YC.
-The Entebbe raid and rescue.
-Watching the milkman deliver in the predawn hours. They really didn’t have a driver’s seat in those trucks.
-Seeing trains on McDonald Avenue. Not on the elevated line, but on the street itself.
-President Ford coming to Yeshiva of Flatbush to speak.
-Rabeim actually playing baseball with us on Lag B’Omer.
-Heavier-than-air flight. (just checking if you read this far.)
Mod, identify yourself!
Whom else would it be?
this is 73. I wasn’t the one who changed the sn, though
I wouldn’t put it past shnitzy
Time for his subtitle to change, don’t you think?
you’re right squeak. Can you imagine if the FBI found it and considered it worth looking into?
Squeak, when did i become a male?
good point, squeak
love the new subtitle
i STILL think driving through the car wash is cool.
Honestly, there are far too many people who don’t know enough American history that it is a real concern. Not worried about the g-men.
What did you think was cool…
taking my siblings etch-a-sketch and shaking them when I didn’t think what they were blogging was appropriate…
i always wanted to be one of those high school girls going to their next class while holding their books with one hand towards their stomach. im in that position now…….
It was cool to meet the YW Editor in person!
Mods can fail?
I’m still not tall enough to reach some washing machines (the stacked ones). T613, you are welcome to do my laundry any time. Perhaps we should start a YWCR laundry drop-off service.
What did I think was cool?
That machine at the dry cleaners that makes the clothes go around. Kind of like a carousel for suits.
WIY and 42, how nice of you to think of my relaxation. Unfortunately it’s my own laundry I like doing. 🙂
I thought front load washers were cool to watch. I thought my dad was cool cuz he did so many cool things. He made a 6 foot hot air balloon that we used at the park and that was definitely cool. I also thought that it was so cool when the guy at carvel would turn my ice cream cone upside down into the sprinkles and it wouldn’t fall off.
Its cool watching how pizza makers toss up the dough and make a large round pie in the air.
-Fireworks,
-my first walkman,
-Superman,
-the fact that my parents went to sleep soooo late,
-that I can kill bugs and make a fire with a magnifying glass,
-the urim V’tumim
-robots
-and, of course, magicians
Cool? The pool…
OK.
Making fire come out of water (I really did it)
Playing an instrument
Flying a real plane
Best of all:
Making people glad, smile, happy!!
those tiny electronic pets seemed cool at first. then they got annoying, and then finally their batteries went dead and now they are just lying around the house as clutter
when 8th graders came to our teachers to get their autograph books signed
people who could jump down more than 3 steps at once.
Single teachers
yoyo tricks
balloon animals
an electronic stapler i won in a contest
people playing piano well
8th graders 🙂
those sharpeners that were screwed to the desk in school, with the handle to crank
the Olympics
polaroid instant cameras (i still think theyre cool actually!)
SaysMe: Single teachers
What’s cool about single teachers?
torah613- back in elementary, i thought they were so cool. They were big kids, but still kids, but teaching which was a big person job. But they were the nicer, funner teachers. And they wld laugh! And play ball with us. They were in my mind these luckiest people with the best kinda job (aka not office, but social), and they were cool in my 10-12 year old mind. Who said i was a logical preteen? 🙂
SaysMe: LOL that’s a funny way to look at it. 🙂
🙂
North Pole. But with the current decrease in Arctic Sea ice, now not so much.
Says me: I agree wholeheartedly with the 8th grader one- they were sooo cool when I was in school.
yay!! Someone agrees with me!
I thought that the men in fur hats and long black coats, with beards and long side curls I saw walking on Saturday afternoons were cool.
15 years after that, I became an Orthodox Jew (albeit not choosing the headgear and levush I found cool as a non-religious 6 year old living in Brooklyn).
I still find Chasidim cool, and admire them for their counter-cultural ways in dress and their pride in their culture.
These long stick on nails that some cashiers/ secretaries used to type with. (Changed my mind already, yuck)
I always thought the eighth graders were so cool when I was in elem. Now I’m in twelfth grade and I was helping out at my school’s open house and looking at all those “seniors”- they’re TINY!
I also remember going to day camp and all of my counselors were so cool and old and sophisticated- you know how during arts and crafts if you couldn’t figure out how to do something you could ask your counselor and she could always do it perfectly? When I was twelve, I became a JC for the first time and the first time one of my campers asked “morah” to fix her project for her, I realized I had no idea what I was doing. I got home from camp that day, dug out one of my old day camp projects, and realized that all the perfect things my counselors had done were actually lopsided.
Actually, I’d call that my moment of disillusionment… waaah.
Then this year when I went to sleepaway camp and I realized that my friend was a bunk counselor. When I went to camp, bunk counselors were mature and grown up.
Sheeeeesh.
When my mom would take me with her to the hairdresser and sit me down and I would get to play with a big box of curlers while she had her hair cut.
My babysitter Olga who drew really pretty pictures for me.
Walking down the street to the Baskin Robbins and the video store all by myself, and stopping in Rite Aid to buy Barbie doll outfits with my allowance money.
My dad’s friend who had a Palm Pilot.
The fourth graders who got to make pottery in art class.
When I was in sixth grade and we won Color War, and it was the first time the sixth grade had won Color War in years.
My high school principal who wore a bow tie.
When we were in the market for a “new” used car, and we test drove one that had a video player in the backseat.
My friend who had a big, beautiful house with an old-fashioned bar set in the basement that nobody ever used, and a small leather table where we used to play card games.
The first year we finally had our own sukkah.
the titanic
the Hindenburg
apollo 13
live music
music studios
Alaska
Denmark
Greece
Australia
farms
deserts
Beepers. Double jointed thumbs. Watching some make fire come out of water. Oops.
i thought high school girls with long hair was the coolest thing ever…and slapstick bracelets, i was a huge fan of those.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.