Growing Up Without a Cell Phone

 
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:35 am    Post subject: Growing Up Without a Cell Phone Reply with quote

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways… yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of * like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that I'm over the ripe old age of at least thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!

Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our *! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car.. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?

We didn't have fancy * like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!

There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOD !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your * and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!

There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-finks!

And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!
And car seats - oh, please! Mom t hr ew you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or any time before!
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LOL!!! I hear ya blknight3 let the kids try growing up with what we had back
when I was a kid growing up in the late 50's and early 60's. All we had was if
we were lucky enough to even have a TV was a B&W TV no color, no remotes,
no Atari, no PS/2/3, no Nintendo, no video arcades, we just had a local pool hall
with 1 or 2 flipper pinball machines and a few pool tables. If we wanted to play
games we had to make up our own games like cowboy's and Indians or playing army
or just out playing kick the can, softball, football. We had no DVD players, no VHS
players and no computers, and if you watched a movie you either watched it on the
good old B&W TV or if you could scrape together enough change you could always go
to the 1 movie theater in town and if you really, really, really, got lucky you might get
to even go to the drive in theater with your parents on Saturday night provided your dad
had the extra money and you behaved all week and didn't cause anybody any trouble. Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 4:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

LOL.. Yep. I remember the very first TV show I saw in color... The Beverley Hillbilies. The streets were blue and they were green ( I guess maybe Grannies Possum stew made em ill)

Coke 6 cents a bottle (deposit included). 5 for a penny candy. 25 cent a gallon gas.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 2:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep I can still remember those good ol' days too. My dad would give me a
Liberty Half Dollar and I'd go to the store down the block and get a six pack
of Coke or Pepsi and a great big sack of candy that would do me a few days
and still have change left over. Yep I've bought gas for .25 cents a gallon too
WOW wish I could find the reverse button for this old world and turn it back
about 40 - 50 years back to the good ol' days. Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Sat May 08, 2010 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

50 back is just about right.
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