I drive a standard. Have taught someone how to drive a standard. And when I was growing up in Miami, all the stores were open on Sundays, so it wasn't until I went to college that I experienced stores being closed on Sundays and not being able to buy liquor on Sundays.

It was not until 1994 that businesses in Massachusetts were allowed to open before noon on Sundays.

That may have been true in Conn as well.

NY did some thing where a liquor store can't be open 7 days, but they can pick which, right?

France has(had?) a law whereby stores have to close one day a week. Stores usually choose Sunday, or sometimes Monday. There was a decent fine if you break the law. For the longest time, the Virgin Megastore was one of the only things open on Sunday and they made so much money by being open that they just paid the fine every week.

Man, I love the internet! Apparently stores could open on Sunday in MA as of 1983: [link]

Except I'm pretty sure the liquor store I normally go to (across the street from Dylan's old daycare) is open 7 days, so maybe they repealed that one too?

The Liquor store by my house also appears to be open 7 days a week. He also stays open until 6 pm on Sunday, and most other places are open until 4. His sign says 4, though...

On a pure tangent, I drove a Subaru with a manual transmission for many years. It had this cool clutch setup were the car wouldn't roll backwards with the clutch depressed. I wonder why that never caught on.

The law 8pm in CT when I was growing up. I worked at a grocery store when I was 16 and we pulled a shower curtain over the beer at 8pm ( nothing else with alcohol was sold in grocery stores)

When I was kid , no shopping on Sunday -- but as I grew up it changed. When I worked at a mall , I wished for blue laws to come back.

My car is fully manual. No power locks, no power windows, no power steering, and even a manual transmission. Kids know all about having to actually use the keys to get in.

Plenty of cheap rental cars are also manual. Much cheaper to fix if something breaks. Also, manual windows are sometimes considered safer because you can roll them up faster than power windows.

Umm, who doesn't look out the window during a long drive?

Or, more importantly, use cash?

Other things on that list I still do:
listen to my walkman
buy film
send said film away for processing (way cheaper)
write checks
get books at the library

Honestly, those "Things kids don't/won't know" lists always kind of annoy me. The assumption that the next generation will have no curiousity about the world their parents and grandparents grew up in is pretty darn insulting.

Liquor stores being able to open or not on a Sunday is a county by county thing in MD. We always used to go to Cecil County (right over the state line from DE) for booze on sundays but liquor stores are closed sunday in B'more City & County.

Package stores in DE & MD are stores attached to a bar or restaurant that sell carry out booze.

Plenty of cheap rental cars are also manual.

Really? I've never seen a manual rental car.