Reply #10: One nice thing - everyone isn't smoking everywhere anymore

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You used to be able to smoke in hospitals, offices, classrooms, airplanes - I am so happy you can't do that anymore. I do think you ought to be able to smoke in bars and that there should be a designated place inside airport security to smoke - but otherwise, restrictions have made daily life much pleasanter.

Also, kids seem a lot less racist and self-segregated than we were at their age (which isn't saying much, I admit)


On the downside, the gap between rich and poor has widened - you used to be able to survive on one blue collar job, but no longer, unless you're one of the diminishing number who still have union jobs.

And in 1976, you could stroll into your local airport and meet your family at the gate as they got off the plane. Your family, which had arrived at the airport about 15 minutes before their flight. Ha!

And even though I'm one of the last holdouts, everyone else seems to pay for the priveledge of watching TV these days - basic OR premium channels. Comaboy would surely find that appalling.