Humor -Growing up without a Cell Phone

elsham

I'm still waiting for the day when all text books will have Ctrl + F.

Now THIS I can't wait for either. I HATE reading textbooks on any form of screen, be it kindle, nook, the computer, an ipad. Whatever. But this, I won't deny the usefulness of this, or how much time it saves. Plus the computer version is always at least 1/3 the price

LilRedRooster

I'm 25 and identify with pretty much all that, haha. But my mom was kinda stuck in the land of no technology, so that's probably why.

EricNCSU

Hahahaha.. I'm only 31 but growing up out in the country almost all this applies to me.

My mom had a "car phone"... not a cell phone.. a car phone... permanently installed in the car with the litle curly cue antenna on the back window.. you couldn't take it anywhere, and it had like 50 minutes a month for a simple 1 minute "i'm on the way home" or 911 if something happened.. that's it. LOL

Oh and for the beating.. yeah, my dad whipped me with a belt... but dammit he only had to do it ONCE.

cmel6334

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.....

That's it, you're all in a timeout!!

MsJenny813

Lol, that was great! I'm 28 and can relate to most of it!

ironanimal

22 and I did all that except steal music and wait all week for cartoons :P

MindyBlack

I'm 46 and I remember when my best friend got pong. I just couldn't understand how that box could make the tv get something other than shows. Then came the betamax, my mind was blown for like a week.
There is not one thing on this list that I cannot relate to.

rileamoyer

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?

Because we did get spanked - most of us turned out just fine.
. I just told my young grandson how we used have to go cut our own branches to get switched with and if we didn't we got the belt. True stories. Had red welts on my legs frequently, and never once thought I was abused!

Oh - also I still remember when my aunt (head telephone operator) let us know when we were going to cut over to actually dialing the phone number ourselves instead of calling the operator to place it. We called my grandmother (at a really odd hour of the day) LOL

Vailery

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 must say "ElizabethRoad" every time I see you respond to someone no matter what it is you respond negatively. Maybe Im just missing on the nice, positive thing that you feel MUST be heard but Im sick of it. Maybe I am just misinterpreting you..

Take a joke, move on. I dont usually respond on the forums negatively but good lord.

Edit- I didnt read the rest of the responses after this one so I didn't realize so many people noticed too! Im glad Im not the only one!!

rileamoyer

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downsizinghoss

I used to love riding in the back of a pickup. I hate that my kids never get to do it unless I am off the road.

My dad used to take 8-10 of us at a time in his truck. It felt so free. I know it is safer, but I hate ALWAYS having to strap the kids in.


Oh, and my little brother sleeping up in the back window on road trips! LOL

michellelynne474

loved this !!! So true... I remember most of this stuff growing up... will be 38 next month....

rileamoyer

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:

Oh yeah the galvanized tub on the kitchen floor with water heated on the stove - been there done that. And the littlest kid was always last getting the grey water. woot woot!:laugh:

TappiGabi

Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed this!

Nucky719

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:laugh: Story of my life right here up until I was about 20

NotGoddess

I read this list to my 15yr old. He can relate to some of it.
He still doesn't have a cell phone.
He has to use the land line to make calls. And we don't have call waiting, forwarding, caller ID or voicemail.
We don't have cable, and watch tv on a old Toshiba widescreen from 1994 (hey it still works so...)
He actually has to walk a mile home from school.
We do dishes in the sink, with our hands.
His friends think he is so deprived.

On the flip side-
He thinks rotary phones are cool and wants one because they are 'retro'.
I tried to explain laserdisc to him, saying it was like a HD DVD the size of an LP record. Then I had to remind him what an LP was.

stebs1984

I'm 27 and can relate to most of this...

never stole any records, just recorded them off the radio
The microwave we have at home and use daily is older than I am (or so i'm told) and still works fine
I remember listening to 8-tracks on occasion
I remember the VCR with the remote that had a wire all the way to the VCR and a switch to go between play and pause
I still have a commodore 64 and still sometimes play games on it, used to have an activision game console but I believe it got sold at a yard sale many years ago.
I remember thinking my babysitters daughter ( a couple years older than me) was lucky because she had her own landline and number to her bedroom
i remember the carphone, My grandparents and aunt still have their old bag-phones
The grandparents dont have cableboxes or DVR's and still use the printed TV guide that comes in the paper every week
I remember getting AOL for our dial-up internet, and not moving from dialup to cablemodem until I was around 18 years old
I still have my original gameboy and all the games I had
i remember our old Sears and Royal dot-matrix printers and practically begging to upgrade to an inkjet (HP Deskjet 682C), I think I might still have it too!
How about blowing into the nintendo to make the games play?

Maybe its time to send all the new generations back in the day for awhile, might help get rid of the sense of "entitlism" that a lot of them seem to have these days.

PrincessLou71186

I'm 25 and agree with most of the points you make, although the scenarios are a little different.

courtneymal17

lol I'm about to turn 26 and most of these apply to me as well. I never thought i'd feel ancient at 25, but man, the kids growing up today are ridiculous...my 3 yr old cousin got mad santa didnt bring her the ipod and ipad she asked for! It's insane!!

jeanie_ca

Remember when there were no cell phones and you lost someone at the mall or store? You had to just had to keep looking for them or hope they heard the store operator page them.

MandaJean83

I'm gonna be 29 this year, and I relate to most of this stuff, except the lack of a microwave! Ahhh, childhood was so simple back then...

foodfight247

Just about to turn 36 this Friday.....but relate to most. Found it absolutely hilarious! :laugh:

Wallybankes

Sometimes I really like cell phones, and change it often.Last year i got a LG Chocolate one, but at my angry moment i throw it away, so it died! And this year i bought this kind of cell phone with cheap price, but i am afraid of his fate then. I hate the noises of irrelevant calls,you know sometimes i just want to be alone, that is enough, anyone knows how can i do? I have got a mobile phone jammer in Google, but I heve no idea of it, ask some profession for help!

pixtotts

im 23 and all but 3 apply to me too... microwave, remotes, and CD's came in before I really got interested in music - first CD - Aqua - Barbie girl... uh oh.... lol

Its crazy my sister is 16, doesnt remember us not having a computer, the internet, playstation, a mobile phone, digital cameras, she doesnt know what a floppy disk is, or a vhs, or a cassette... :O!

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SherryR1971

I love this!! :-)

YaGigi

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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Lol, I can relate to that!

Wallybankes

In the modern times, cell phones have become an essential part of our life. You will be out of fashion if you have no cell phone. One hand, you can send massages and make phones to your friends or your colleagues with phones at any time in any places. On the other hand, we will enjoy our life with it, such as listening to music, playing games, taking photos, recording a vedio, suffering the internet, etc. But more and more people are using cell phones at the expense of public interest. They talk aloud over the cell phones, the endless ringtones sounded everywhere. How to cope with the noises of cell phones in public has drawn public attentions in many places of the world. Do we have to force ourselves to listen to the noise generated by cell phones? Of course not, cell phone jammer is a useful tool for us to deal with the noise pollution.I have bought one for my convenient life, so if you have the same problem with me, you can come to get one. You will find the cool of it.

SeaRunner26

I'm getting pretty close to forty and can relate to everything but not having a microwave or not having car seats. I remember both those whey I was growing up. But I also remember the ROTARY PHONE! Don't mess up when you dial or you'll have to start over, which could take a few hours.