Today's Teen vs. Teen 20 years ago

Busymomshantell
Busymomshantell Posts: 126 Member
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Heard a trivia question on the radio this morning - What have most teenagers today NOT experienced that most all teenagers DID experience 20 years ago? (can't wait to see what answers will be guessed) :smile:
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  • angeldaae
    angeldaae Posts: 348 Member
    Pay phones?
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
    Pay phones?


    ^^^^this

    Also, not having a cell phone.
  • CanadianThunder
    CanadianThunder Posts: 84
    Going outside to play.
  • corn63
    corn63 Posts: 1,580 Member
    HS graduation?
  • SurfinBird1981
    SurfinBird1981 Posts: 517 Member
    Fresh air?
  • palmerig88
    palmerig88 Posts: 623 Member
    Working
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    Going from vinyl, to cassettes, to CD's.

    Pong.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Sitting in front of the stereo with a blank tape set to record but paused while listening to your favorite radio station waiting for a song to come on that you want to record.

    Also, Rico Suave.
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
    Call boxes on the side of highways
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
    When the first "cell phones" came out - they were car phones, huge, and weighed about 50lbs.

    Beepers were also all the rage back then too.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Call boxes on the side of highways

    Those are still there. But payphones are scarce.
  • Il_DaniD_lI
    Il_DaniD_lI Posts: 1,593 Member
    Family dinners at the dinner table.
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    Sitting in front of the stereo with a blank tape set to record but paused while listening to your favorite radio station waiting for a song to come on that you want to record.

    Also, Rico Suave.

    :laugh: Did that all the time!
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    Family dinners at the dinner table.

    There are actually people who still do this believe it or not.
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
    Call boxes on the side of highways

    Those are still there. But payphones are scarce.

    Really? Wow, none of our highways have them anymore :(
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Call boxes on the side of highways

    Those are still there. But payphones are scarce.

    Really? Wow, none of our highways have them anymore :(

    I don't remember ever seeing them in New York, but in Florida they're all over the place.
  • auroranflash
    auroranflash Posts: 3,569 Member
    Waiting for hours for your favourite song to come on the radio just so you can frantically hit *RECORD* on your ca-ssette tape.
  • Busymomshantell
    Busymomshantell Posts: 126 Member
    Pay phones?

    Those are hard to find nowadays. My grandparents always told me to keep a quarter in my pocket to call home if I needed to.
  • 126siany
    126siany Posts: 1,386 Member
    Rotary dial phone.

    Phone that hangs on the wall in the kitchen with a 20 foot cord.

    Car windows that had to be rolled down (not electric).
  • leanne9876
    leanne9876 Posts: 301 Member
    A smack / belting / wooden spoon etc
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Waiting for hours for your favourite song to come on the radio just so you can frantically hit *RECORD* on your ca-ssette tape.

    Great minds, as they say ...

    (Even if you do feed your cat cheeseburgers. I'm on hold with the ASPCA right now.)
  • Busymomshantell
    Busymomshantell Posts: 126 Member
    Waiting for hours for your favourite song to come on the radio just so you can frantically hit *RECORD* on your ca-ssette tape.

    That was sooo me. I still have some of my old cassettes with my favorite songs on them.
  • angeldaae
    angeldaae Posts: 348 Member
    Skating rink.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Pay phones?

    Those are hard to find nowadays. My grandparents always told me to keep a quarter in my pocket to call home if I needed to.

    I'm old enough to remember when it was a dime!
  • stephygetsfit2
    stephygetsfit2 Posts: 12
    brain cells
  • Busymomshantell
    Busymomshantell Posts: 126 Member
    Rotary dial phone.

    Phone that hangs on the wall in the kitchen with a 20 foot cord.

    Car windows that had to be rolled down (not electric).

    I remember that phone phone sooo well - the LOONNGGG cord that stretched al the way across a couple rooms,
  • DontStopB_Leakin
    DontStopB_Leakin Posts: 3,863 Member
    Family dinners at the dinner table.

    There are actually people who still do this believe it or not.
    Family dinner every night is my one rule. I don't care if we're eating take out, we're having it AT the dinner table.
  • MTBrob
    MTBrob Posts: 513 Member
    bloodsport.gif
  • Busymomshantell
    Busymomshantell Posts: 126 Member
    Family dinners at the dinner table.

    You know that is probably very true, but my family tries to always have dinner together - not always at the table, but definately together.
  • Ruthe8
    Ruthe8 Posts: 423 Member
    Rotary dial phone.

    Phone that hangs on the wall in the kitchen with a 20 foot cord.
    I was a teenager 20 years ago. We had a cordless phone. The only people I knew who had a rotary dial were my grandparents, and we laughed at that because it was so old-fashioned.

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