Humor -Growing up without a Cell Phone
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This made me smile. Got to pinch it :~)0
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"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!"
This made me laugh really hard!0 -
Why do these always have to include the entry about child abuse? Do you purposely set out to ruin it, or does it come naturally?
I thought the same thing when I read her comment!Why do your posts always have to be rude? Do you purposely set out to ruin it, or does it come naturally?
To the OP~ It amazes me how we even survived "back then".0 -
I'm still waiting for the day when all text books will have Ctrl + F.
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Why do these always have to include the entry about child abuse? Do you purposely set out to ruin it, or does it come naturally?
I thought the same thing when I read her comment!Why do your posts always have to be rude? Do you purposely set out to ruin it, or does it come naturally?
To the OP~ It amazes me how we even survived "back then".
Yep! We lost our remote last night for about 30 minutes and I could NOT do anything until we found it. I cant figure out how to turn on my tv otherwise. Too many boxes and buttons lol JUST FIND THE REMOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol0 -
Who remembers these "remote" cable boxes?
When I was like ten years old, my cousin and I found you can partially descramble the channels you didn't pay for by partially depressing two of the channel buttons at the same time.0 -
To the OP~ It amazes me how we even survived "back then".
We didn't know any better...wouldn't have it any other way !0 -
Something that came in my email box.
If you are 36, 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 in hell 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 forty, 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!
1) 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!!
2) 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!
3) 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 *kitten*! Nowhere was safe!
4) 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!
5) 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?
6) 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!
7) There weren't any freakin' 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 GOSH!!! 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.
8) 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!
9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! Wehad 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!
10) 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 *kitten* and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!!
NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!
11) 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-*kitten*!
12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
13) 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 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 1970 or any time before!
Regards,
The Over 40 Crowd
This cracks me up! I'm only 32 but can identify with every bit of it! When I tell my kids how it was "back then", they look at me like I'm nuts!0 -
I can relate to everyone of theses...just other day I called my son from the car in the driveway to tell him to come get the groceries..LOL and when I hung up I laughed at myself thinking OH LORD what have cell phones done to us ...We are getting lazy !0
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Who remembers these "remote" cable boxes?
When I was like ten years old, my cousin and I found you can partially descramble the channels you didn't pay for by partially depressing two of the channel buttons at the same time.
and YES I DO REMEMBER ! AND THE 8 track players and ATARI !0 -
The only one I don't think makes us "Spoiled" is the carseats one, lol. That one actually saves lives so.....
I'm only 23 but my parents were so old school (not to mention we were pretty poor) that I did have to sit around all day waiting to record songs from the radio, lol. I used to record them from disney movies as well with one of those huge "portable" tape recorders, haha.
I do agree 100% about the cellphones/txting thing. My husband and I don't own cellphones because I think they are a plague on society, lol. We have one of them unheard of things, a house phone.0 -
One day my daughter and i were sitting on the patio at chick fil a and a woman was rolling her window down with her hand (the kind that you use the handle instead of the button) and my daughter (she was 8 or 9 at the time) says "mom what is that woman doing?" i reply "she is rolling her window down" my daughter's response was "with her hand?!?!?!?!". Aye dios mio! :noway:0
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I'll be 35 in June and I relate to every single one of these things. The only thing I can remember coming into our house when I was about 5 was a microwave. And when I was about 6 we finally got a TV (An RCA of course...) with a 6-button remote. On/Off, Volume Up/Down, and Channel Up/Down.0
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I'm 27 and I relate to most.. although i am pretty sure I had a microwave growing up.. and my computer ran DOS. My parents would whistle when the street lights came on to "warn" us to come home from playing outside ALL DAY LONG. and we used to play in all the neighbors yards, climbing their trees, hide in their yards... and never had to worry about lawsuits and junk like that. You played at your own risk!0
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We had a vw bug and I had to ride in the back hatched part. Love this post!!:laugh: :laugh:0
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To the OP~ It amazes me how we even survived "back then".
Yea, I remember falling out of trees, riding bicycles with no helmet, not even THINKING about safety!!!
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I've got crank windows in my truck... It's a 2002.
I remember getting our first microwave - Panasonic Talking Genius!!! That was probably '81 or so.
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Yep! We lost our remote last night for about 30 minutes and I could NOT do anything until we found it. I cant figure out how to turn on my tv otherwise. Too many boxes and buttons lol JUST FIND THE REMOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
I figured out the other day that I CANNOT change the channel without a remote! I couldn't find the Comcast Xfinity remote, and my tiny cable box has NO BUTTONS on it!!! WTF!!! ><
And I'm in my late twenties, so I relate to all of these with few exceptions - most notably, we had SNES instead of Atari, but part of that is because my brother and I had NO VIDEO GAMES until 7th/3rd grade, respectively. Know what we did as really young kids? WE PLAYED OUTSIDE AND MADE UP OUR OWN GAMES!!! We used various toys, played various games: I still remember our sports balls being "dinosaur eggs" on a regular basis!
And my mother also had the street lights rule, but we didn't get a warning. Your butt had better be home, or it's gonna get spanked when you get there!0 -
HA!
I'm 23 and can relate to a lot of this.
It wasn't until I was in high school that I realized just how far back in time my childhood was.
We got a computer when I was in grade 8, and DIAL UP when I was in grade 11. The teachers would ask us to type up our essays, and I would use a freaking typewriter from the 1960's. Of course I didn't have email until I was 15, so I was always running to the mailbox to see if my pen pals had written me back.
My little sister however (who is younger than me by 3 years), still doesn't know what Atari, 8 tracks, or life without an MP3 player is like. I also don't think she's ever had to walk 15km across town to go to the movie theatre and watch a movie using her own money.
Brat.
Have you seen the ridiculous car seats they have out now? Apparently you're supposed to ride along in a jumbo seat in the back until you reach puberty now. Jeez, I remember sitting in the front seat of the car when I was 3, using a phone book as a booster seat.
My own very first car had a tape player in it, and even though I scrapped the car 2 years ago, I still have my Prince tapes :laugh:0 -
Well I am 41 and I remember all of that...I have a hospital file bigger then most...because it was more fun to play outside breaking bones and being crazy...then doing chores...0
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I'm only 26 and I remember doing almost all that stuff.
Me too! Me too! Me too!!!0 -
Oh my! all you young folk! lol! typewriters weren't electric, computers were big honkin' things that took up a whole room in an office building. Before cassette tapes & 8-Tracks we had reel to reel tape machines, we didn't have texting but we had phones that were on a party line. Girls weren't allowed to wear pants to school & that was a regular public school & we said the morning prayer. And all the food was from local farmers, without additives & hormone injections. We didn't need to lock our doors or car at night & gasoline was .60 cents a gallon. The best Concert tickets for the Beatles, Stones & the rest of the British invasion were $6.50, those are the best memories.0
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haha..this is great! At 46, I use my cell phone to text or call our kids upstairs when it's time for dinner.. *kitten* the yelling at the top of my lungs over and over again, only to find out they have their ipods on and can't hear a thing!0
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One day my daughter and i were sitting on the patio at chick fil a and a woman was rolling her window down with her hand (the kind that you use the handle instead of the button) and my daughter (she was 8 or 9 at the time) says "mom what is that woman doing?" i reply "she is rolling her window down" my daughter's response was "with her hand?!?!?!?!". Aye dios mio! :noway:
BoomBoom , lol...that's funny right there !0 -
27 and lived sheltered/poor growing up - we didn't have cable until I was 8!0
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One day my daughter and i were sitting on the patio at chick fil a and a woman was rolling her window down with her hand (the kind that you use the handle instead of the button) and my daughter (she was 8 or 9 at the time) says "mom what is that woman doing?" i reply "she is rolling her window down" my daughter's response was "with her hand?!?!?!?!". Aye dios mio! :noway:
BoomBoom , lol...that's funny right there !
Bless her heart! She still says "I dont get it" when we tell the story.0 -
AWESOME.
I can relate to all of these, except for the one about carseats/seat belts. My mom wouldn't even START the car unless my brother and I were belted in. That is, once we got a car that HAD seat belts in it...I distinctly remember a reddish Pinto that had no seat belts in the back...
I know we had cable by the time I started junior high because I remember watching MTV...when they played MUSIC VIDEOS!!!0 -
In the UK, we had two channels and it was Black and White. Now there are 100's of channels and all showing same old re-runs.
In fact we didn't have repeats, this was first time round!!.
Outside toilet and a tin bath in front of the fire.
The Telephone line was a shared part line, and fuel was less than 10pence (15c) a gallon. Now it is £7 a gallon.
You had to cook your food, no such thing as a microwave and had to go to a bank to get mone, no ATM's.
As Monty Python said, "I used to live in a cardboard box in middle of road", "you had it lucky, we couldn't afford a cardboard box", "trying telling the kids of today that and they won't believe you!!"
Nostalgia is a wonderful thing - looking back and based on experience.
Would you go back to those days without central heating and so on. No you wouldn't!!!!!!!
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Oh my fricking GOD. Bahahahahahahaha...0
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