Reflecting on the past

I went to a high school graduation party yesterday, and it got me thinking back to when I was in high school.
Thinking about the sporting events I attended, classes I had, teachers I had and mostly the friends I had.
It was different times back then in the 1970's, you didn't have cell phones, I pods, Cd's and computers, just to mention a few things.
We went to the bowling alley to bowl, shoot pool, play Foosball and hang out with friends.
If you wanted to talk to someone you had to either go over to their house, meet them someplace, or call them on the rotary phone.
Our music was played on cassettes, vinyl records, or 8 tracks.
Using an electric typewriter was the closest thing you had to a computer.
You could take your girlfriend out to a drive-in-movie, that's a place where you could drive your car, park it in a parking spot, then you would take a speaker off the pole that was holding it, set the speaker in the window of your car and watch a movie on a huge screen.
It seemed like the 70's were less complicated, people were a lot more laid back. You didn't have to worry about drive by shootings, kids coming to school with guns, unless they were going wild game hunting after school, metal detectors and security camera's.
You could go over to your friends house and stay there till dark, then walk home without worrying if you were going to be mugged or shot.
Gas was cheaper to buy, you could fill you 20gal gas tank up with regular gas for about $12.00.
Times have changed greatly since I was in school some for the better and some for the worse.
If I can give you one piece of advice, it's enjoy your years in school, they are precious and you will never get them back!