Humor -Growing up without a Cell Phone
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Hilarious!!! Although if anyone else ever hit us, my mom would have marched over and hit them. punishment was her job, not theirs, thank you very much! lol
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At 45 I have related all these things to me daugther. I am always reminding her about typing term papers on an actual typewriter with no corrections or spell check. She is absolutely dumbfounded how we did that. To be honest, I am not sure how we did that either.
HAHA, and when the ink strip in the typewriter was running dry, you HIT THE KEYS REALLY HARD just to make it through the paper...c'mon...just one more paragraph....
That was my high-school typing class! We also had "Cor-Rect-Type" you put between the ribbon & paper to cover up a mistake like using White-Out with a pen!
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I saw some cassette tape strip waving around a lightpole the other day.. I was like WOW.. its been AGES since I have seen that. Used to see that confetti strip crap ALL over the streets. Whipping all over the place!
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I used to see that all the time in high school! Haven't seen that in years now. All I see are random broken CDs!
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I didn't have a cell phone until I was an adult. I remember having 56k Internet in high school. I also remember when cell phones were used more for calling ppl than texts.0
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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?
Why do your posts always have to be rude? Do you purposely set out to ruin it, or does it come naturally?0 -
Yea see I am 28 and all of this was true for me! LMAO!! Makes me laugh thanks!0
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I'll be 30 this year and that describes my childhood almost to a tee (though we had a microwave...a huge box that took forever compared to microwaves now)0
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I'm so old that we had 8 tracks in our family station wagon and only an AM radio while growing up.
Me too :flowerforyou: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?
Why do your posts always have to be rude? Do you purposely set out to ruin it, or does it come naturally?
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I mean...shhhhhhhhh, don't make eyecontact and just ignore her and she might just.... go away.....0 -
OMG this makes me smile! 35 and my kids do not yet have cell phones, and will NOT for a long time... However, their friends' parents have permission to lay into them (verbally) if they are ***king around at a playdate.... LOL...0
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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?
Was this directed to me ? Good grief lady...lol. Lighten up, life is too short!0 -
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?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.
^^^I wish everything had Ctrl+F lol0 -
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?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
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