Humor -Growing up without a Cell Phone

k8blujay2

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?!?!

I have often use the line. "I didn't have a TV remote when I was your age, If I want the channel changed I had to punch your uncle (ie my little brother) in the arm"

You know what was worse? A show that came on that you had to miss because of school or work. DVR was not around!

How did we watch anything before DVR's?

dubw

Not only did I grow up without a remote, my folks did not get a color TV until I went to college. Secondly, I went trough undergrad, grad, and post grad school without ONCE accessing the internet.

Mina133842

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someone gave my son one for his first Christmas... not like he'd know what to do with a rotary phone now anyway. What about the 8track converter? the stereo bigger than a hope chest? my parents had some HUGE stereo thing, it was a record player and 8 track combined..with cabinet doors that opened in front of the speakers.. they had an 8 track/cassette converter thing - so we could listen to our cassettes in the big stereo. lol

mommared53

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.

Yes! I remember party lines and nobody ever locked their doors. I remember when the Beattles became famous my mom discustedly called them long hairs. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: We only had one channel on the tv and the shows were black and white. Also, we had rabbit ears on the tv to adjust the picture. We took baths in a galvanized tub because we didn't have indoor plumbing. A lot of good memories. Ahhh, those were the good old days. :bigsmile:

mommared53

:laugh: :laugh: Yup!

umachanxo

I'm only 20, and although some of those things were around when I was a kid, my parents stuck to the old fashioned way. We had to stay outside and play, we didn't have gaming systems, cell phones, or any of those kinds of things. We didn't have MP3 players and we looked up project research in the Encyclopedia. xD I turned out fine. haha.

Abells

I used love the TV guide!

When the internet hit -- Dial UP -- parents used to yell at me for staying up late cause they heard the damn thing going...


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NU2U

Life was so much simpler back then.

caramel1920

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...

Me too! I didn't break any bones but I did have a few fractures, sprangs, and dislocations!!!!:laugh:

shanahan_09

LOL, loved this, thanks for posting.

Brings back memories. I grew up in the country and we had a telephone partyline. That was rough when the teen years hit, ha.
Some days I wish there would be a world wide technology blackout...wonder how many minutes before sheer panic would set in for so many! This also reminds me of stories about the younger crowd and when their car keyless remote dies...and they can't figure out how to get into their car. Um, use the KEY!! :laugh:

TOYGRRRL

Rotary phones, reel to reel, super 8 home movies, transistor radio, manual typewriter, vinyl records, sitting at the record shop to hear the new tunes, running home by dusk, playing ball at the corner with all the neighborhood kids, meeting friends at the playground after walking yourself there at the age of 7, black and white tv with rabbit ears, film cameras, TV guide, books, libraries, hand written letters... oh the good old days

jenn26point2

I can relate to all of it with the exception of the microwave one. We had a microwave growing up.

But the rest of it... no doubt! It sucked compared to life today... I wish it was still that way.

Banks01

These people are talking tape player, but not understating it was an 8 track tape. 8 songs. That's it and it was as big a three pop tarts.


I didn't have a VCR or microwave until I left the house.

Better tv reception was had by me holding the rabbit ears for our FOUR CHANNELS.

There was no food delivery, you'd pee on the trees if you needed to go and drink out of the garden hose.

We'd leave to play at 8 in the morning and nothing was thought about it unless we were late for dinner.

We'd have 5 or 6 kids in the back of the truck, sitting on the sides, tailgate down

Water wings? What? I learned to swim at 3 when dad threw me into the pool

We had 88, 33, and 45 speed records. Yeah, they came in different speeds.

We worked in the garden before school, after school, after homework, and sometimes until it got dark

When I was in 6th grade, I had to cut our 4 acres of grass and weed and trim it every other weekend.


Yep, things are pretty different now.

sufikitkat

26...identify with a lot of this as well. Some of the technology was still new and not something my family picked up on right away. And the Saturday morning cartoons...yup. Granted, there was Nickelodeon cartoons but still. And cell phones, email...never used them until I was in high school at least. I catch myself saying things about cell phones and video games already!

BlueEyesXoXo

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?

this ^^^^

Trail_Addict

Our first VCR had a remote.....but not wireless! :laugh: It had a cable that stretched across the room... but 5 ft short of the couch. So we had to sit on the floor to use the remote. LOL

robot_potato

I'm only 26 and I remember doing almost all that stuff.

I'm 25, same here. We didn't have video games til i was 10, and we were still kicked outside til the street lights came on.

jgtz15

I'm only 20 an I can relate to most of this... I didnt get no phone until my mom said u can get a job and pay it for it.. I remember no cartoons untill saturday.. in my house no cable only antenna.. Never had a microwave until i moved to the states and even then we didnt have one until like 2003.. no music only what u got on the radio and of i bought it at the store which then they were like $23 for one cd.. way to much.. I remember internet but only moms n dads where allowed to use it to before they charged way to much to just "surf" the web.. lmao times have changed

bikinibeliever

Bahahaha! That was great....I say this stuff to my kids all the time! If someone else didn't add, remember holding the rabbit ears

wrapped in aluminum foil??? "Wait right there. No go back a little. To the right, almost, little more. STOP! Now don't move, just hold

it right there." Oh and you didn't get to watch because then you were holding the ears behind the tv. :laugh: Then there was

walking to the nearest pizza shop if you didn't have Atari or when Donkey Kong first came out....line those quarters up on the

machine to save your spot...:laugh: Yeah, I loved those days!!

Buddhasmiracle

You could to see the Stones, the Beatles, the Doors for 3.50 - 6.00.

Commodore 64s -yikes!

Alot of break through TV programming from Norman Lear

You still had to be careful, but you could pretty much hitch a ride somewhere with a couple of other kids.

lorac321

Movies were always a double feature and had a cartoon at the beginning. It was only $1.25 to get in and that was full price.

I love this post.

bikinibeliever

Movies were always a double feature and had a cartoon at the beginning. It was only $1.25 to get in and that was full price.

I love this post.

Me too! I am going to read each and every when I have time later.

firesoforion

I'm 25 and I think I'm the very tail end of that generation, except the microwave thing, but I picked that up (along with no refrigerator...) living in Polish dorms for a year.

brittanylock09

i'm 21, and some of that was true for me for over half of my life. my little brother on the other hand barely goes outside now that he has an xbox. I have a wii but I use it to work out lol. I hate bein indoors and sometimes I wish we didn't have cell phone or a remote or the tv guide on the tv itself. People are so lazy these days

starcatcher1975

"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!

OMG me too...I mean literally laugh out loud hard. If I weren't sitting in a recliner with my feet up I would have fallen over, lol. I'm 36 and I remember all this. My children both have smartphones. I didn't even have a cell phone until after they were both born! I can remember our first computer too...looking back I'm not sure what the point of it really was. It didn't do much compared to the ones we use now, lol.

And about the "child abuse" back in the day my parents called it discipline. And if we acted out then we got our *kitten* busted. At home, in public, in church...didn't matter, we got it. Somehow my brothers and I survived and grew up respecting our parents and others.

starcatcher1975

I told my 14 yo I was going to get rid of our cable box and just stick with basic cable or even get rid of cable completely. He asked how we'd know what was on tv and I told him we'd have to get a tv guide. He asked me what it was, when I told him he looked at me like I was an alien and asked if they really made something like that, lol.

ingfit

That is very funny! I had to repost it as my Facebook status! Thanks!

Parris420

Be for texting became popular.....Passing notes in class..... was the worse when a teacher caught you....Especially when they read it out loud....
#violated to the
#max

bikinibeliever

LMAO!!! I'm not giving it away either .....I totally forgot that one but :laugh: like hell when I saw this!

Edithrenee

heck yes!!!! lo i am 42 and yes the generation now has it made!! lol