Some childhood rules felt completely arbitrary at the time—downright bizarre, even. But as adults, we look back and realize our parents weren’t just making up nonsense for their own entertainment. There was logic behind the madness, even if we rolled our eyes back then. Here are rules that once seemed ridiculous but now feel like strokes of genius.

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Technology is developing at an increasingly rapid rate. It means devices that were popular a few decades ago are now on the verge of being obsolete. We’ve replaced them with fast, digital items, making our lives much easier. But there are somethings us Baby Boomers refuse to give up.

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Baby Boomers and Things that will not survive once the Baby Boomers are gone.

PE class for us Baby Boomers was hard-core! For the class jocks, it was the one guaranteed A. For the rest of us, it was like a horrible social experiment gone wrong. It was 45 minutes of humiliating torture that left us sweaty, smelly, and out of breath for the next class and reinforced Darwin’s concept of survival of the fittest. From the unflattering gym uniforms and communal showers to the endless laps demanded by our frustrated what to be NFL coach PE teacher, gym class is one high school memory most of us would prefer to forget.

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