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.

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

There must have been exceptions to that because I thought that the Holyoke Mall always was open on Sundays. And I know my prep school had road trips to Faneuil Hall and Sunday was the only day we didn't have school.

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

I've gotten a couple just this year.

Drunk Yoga Positions

I've gotten a couple just this year.

Well, that's just cool.

Now that I think of manual stuff, I guessing it's going to be almost impossible to avoid power steering with my next car. I really liked going from power steering to manual steering, but I don't think there have been many cars made recently that don't have power steering.

Speaking of things you never see any more, just recently I saw a MILKMAN delivering milk. In glass bottles. wow