I watched the movie Uncle Buck recently and it reminded me of the laissez-taire parenting style that there used to be. Uncle Buck is looking for his niece that is missing in action. He asks a couple in a car if they knew of a party going on. They affirmed that they did and that their son was there. Uncle Buck said that his niece was also. The parents didn't seem to care about their son being at this wild party. While watching this part of the movie it brought back the memory of our towns council woman holding a keg party for all graduating seniors from my high school. I happened to be a senior that year. I went to the party for a whole 5 minutes and then went to a more sedate party. It was so weird that a council woman was breaking the law and everyone seemed just fine with that! LOL I think that parents didn't have to worry as much about their kids... We tried to please our parents and overall were much more innocent! All though there were still kids that lived in a nightmare back then too.
In that day and age I know that some of my friends could go to the local 7-11 or chevron and pick up cartons of cigarettes, and or booze. The only requirement being a note from home! In fact at a lot of gas stations the cigarettes were in vending machines for everyone to use. There was also the smoking section behind the portables at the my high school. I remember seeing one of my favorite teachers their smoking with the students. Here is the funny part of all this... We could smoke cigarettes or wacky tabacky, however, we could not leave campus without permission. They hired 2 ladies gave them walkie talkies and they patrolled the student parking lot to make sure we did not leave campus. Things have sure changed since then.
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