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03-26-2010, 05:30 PM | #1 |
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| Some of you will really enjoy this one!! Growing up without a cell phone If you are 30, or older, you might think this is hilarious! 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 I was going to lay a bunch of crap 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 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 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 butts! 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 mess 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 crap 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 cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a 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 rear 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 not many of us had 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 and seat belts - oh, please! Mom threw 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! Regards, The Over 30 Crowd
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03-26-2010, 05:40 PM | #2 |
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| OMG'osh that it great. I was talking to my neighbor about school (she is 11) and was mortified when I told her I learned to type on a typwriter! At least it was electric! She said "I didn't think you where old" I blew my cover.....i'm not the cool neighbor anymore : (
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03-26-2010, 05:43 PM | #3 |
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| I am only 24, but I AGREE with everything you said! LOL... priceless! |
03-26-2010, 05:47 PM | #4 |
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| Haha this is great! I remember we had the Calicovision, then we upgraded to the Atari. I remember we played this Smurfs game and you were a smurf and had to hop over fences. If you didn't jump at the right time you got impaled on the cute wood picket fence. It wasn't as bad as it sounds but it was really funny. I also remember our tv's had dials on them. A fancy one had these little touch buttons that would change the channel. Our first vcr's remote was tethered to the actual vcr by a long cord. I didn't get my first cell phone till I was in college. Now I'm seeing 10 yr olds with them. Who do they need to call? Their mom? They should still be with their mom all the time at that age! And i still don't have people I need to call. Why do I even have a phone?
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03-26-2010, 06:06 PM | #5 | |
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03-26-2010, 06:08 PM | #6 |
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| I'm 28 (will be 29 in June) and I always wonder, if I could go back in time, what my 12 year old self would think about iphones or laptops or plasma screen TVs. It's really amazing what has been achieved in just the last 30 years. I remember when caller ID first came out... it was soooo cool to know who was calling. LOL. It was like a separate little device that you had to connect to your phone. My parents had an Atari when I was born but I don't really remember it. The first game console that I remember was the original Nintendo. I still think Super Mario Bros is the best game ever created. LOL
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03-26-2010, 06:10 PM | #7 | |
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03-26-2010, 06:15 PM | #8 | |
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03-26-2010, 06:17 PM | #9 |
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| Haha this is great! I remember we had the Calicovision, then we upgraded to the Atari. I remember we played this Smurfs game and you were a smurf and had to hop over fences. If you didn't jump at the right time you got impaled on the cute wood picket fence. It wasn't as bad as it sounds but it was really funny. I also remember our tv's had dials on them. A fancy one had these little touch buttons that would change the channel. Our first vcr's remote was tethered to the actual vcr by a long cord. I didn't get my first cell phone till I was in college. Now I'm seeing 10 yr olds with them. Who do they need to call? Their mom? They should still be with their mom all the time at that age! And i still don't have people I need to call. Why do I even have a phone?
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03-26-2010, 06:30 PM | #10 |
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| Lol, I do have to laugh. I'm young, I'll be 20 this year, but I don't know WHAT I would do without my computer or cell phone, etc. It's just so crazy! I was talking about this the other day... Even though I'm young still -- when I was growing up, we were outside in the summertime from 9am-9pm... I barely came in to eat dinner without taking off my rollerblades. We got a family computer when I was around 9 or 10 years old maybe, but we didn't have internet yet. We had one of those old computers forever, that didn't even have a mouse or anything. It was when you had to type a command to get it to do something. Then I remember AOL came about... thinking back, it was sooo slow, but we didn't know any better. I use to always have a book or a magazine available so I could read while I waited for the next internet page to load, hehe. I think I got my first cell phone in 8th grade but most of my friends didn't get them 'til high school. It was one of those little Nokia's that was a green screen, no texting or pictures or anything on it. We had the original Nintendo, and then got the N64... I think Playstation came about when I was in late elem. school or middle school. I always had cassette tapes until middle school. CD's were around but they were still fairly new and most cars only had tape decks so nobody really bought CD's. My lil brother saw a pic of a cassette tape the other day and asked "What is THAT?!" and it made suddenly feel like my parents.... hahaha! My point... even though I'm young and had more than you old farts ... SO much has advanced even since *I* was little. It's really crazy, every year we just seem to get more tech advanced... I would have never even thought an iPhone would be able to exist... or that you can own a game like a Wii system in your home- that would be like something I'd expect to see at Disneyworld. And that AOL is a thing of the past... lol. Everyone had AOL for the longest time with me growing up. Now who seriously still uses AOL? Ha, it's so funny. But basically when you don't know any better, you don't think anything of it at the time... like I think about the folks who grew up in the late 1800's during the Civil War and stuff. It makes me be like how did they live like that?! But when ya don't know any better... it doesnt make a difference.
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03-26-2010, 06:39 PM | #11 |
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| June 5!! And I agree, Mario is the best video game ever created! My fav is Mario Galaxy for the Wii! My kids are always begging me to play and I'm like, "No, I'm playing right now!" LMAO it's so twisted!
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03-26-2010, 06:43 PM | #12 |
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| I remember my first cell phone, back then they were called portable car phones. It was the size of a shoe box and rather heavy ughhh,,,and Ithink it was like $90 a month for like 40 minutes of chat time.......and no texting. I also remeber when I got a push button land line phone for christmasand NO I did not have to walk to school up hill, both ways, with bare feet.....LOL
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03-26-2010, 06:48 PM | #13 |
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| On a sadder note though, I have to say I hate the fact that in today's day and age you can't let your kids play outside anymore without fear of some psycho snatching them up and doing God knows what to them. It's ridiculous, I don't even let my sons go to the restroom in the mens room because of all the stories about men doing horrible things to little boys in walmart bathrooms and such (my 7 year old goes in the mens now, only because he's old enough to understand that if someone touches him he is to scream bloody murder!)! Because of this, it makes me so mad when I see these 12 year olds in the mall all by themselves dressed like little hootchie mommas! It's exhausting!
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03-26-2010, 07:00 PM | #14 |
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| So funny I shared on my facebook
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03-26-2010, 07:07 PM | #15 |
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| Thank you OP. I had to read this one to my DH. We were just talking about this type of thing the other day. We have 3 teenagers here at home. |
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