Humor -Growing up without a Cell Phone
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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.
You could always buy her a '99 Chevy Cavalier to "get it"... *lol* I remember all my friends that owned one of those had the hand crank for the window...0 -
And when you had to get somewhere you had never been, you had to look at a map or have a tedious conversation with someone who gave directions in a way that you had no clue what they were talking about.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.
You could always buy her a '99 Chevy Cavalier to "get it"... *lol* I remember all my friends that owned one of those had the hand crank for the window...
i used to roll in a 1992 Chevy Cavalier RS baby! big pimpin'0 -
My friends and I thank the universe that we didn't have cell phones when we were in our 20s ... The pictures would have done us in....
^^^I think 'this' all the time....thank goodness...and on the off chance someone did take pictures, they are most likely in a dusty shoebox somewhere....not plastered all over the internet :-)0 -
I can related to most of it except the hitting. My parents never struck us and no one else would EVER be allowed.0
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:laugh: Great stuff, thanks OP.
I am 50. When I was growing up, we did not have a dishwasher (except for my sister & I), no dryer for our clothes, no microwave. Mom was afraid of our first microwave oven...lol.
I learned to drive in a car with no power steering, no power windows & locks, no air conditioning with only a AM radio in it. :ohwell:
Who remembers CB radios? How about a deck of cards clipped to your bike spokes? Someone mentioned typewriters...when I was in college, that's how our term papers were done. Ah, so many memories, thanks OP. Yea, I am old like that.
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YOU MEAN SHE IS SERIOUS ABOUT THIS????:noway: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 -
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You could always buy her a '99 Chevy Cavalier to "get it"... *lol* I remember all my friends that owned one of those had the hand crank for the window...
I used to roll in a red, 1992 Cavalier, too!i used to roll in a 1992 Chevy Cavalier RS baby! big pimpin'0 -
You could always buy her a '99 Chevy Cavalier to "get it"... *lol* I remember all my friends that owned one of those had the hand crank for the window...
I used to roll in a red, 1992 Cavalier, too!i used to roll in a 1992 Chevy Cavalier RS baby! big pimpin'
OMG twinsies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!0 -
Boy does that bring back memories.0 -
This made me laugh and miss my childhood:) I was just going through these with my daughter (13) about how easy they have it!
Thank you for a good trip down memory lane0 -
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"0 -
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!0 -
I'm so old that we had 8 tracks in our family station wagon and only an AM radio while growing up.
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I have only seen 8 tracks and their player in movies or in this junk shop I used to clean when I was a teenager.
8-tracks were odd in that they never ended, they'd just re-play from the beginning with no notice that you'd heard all the songs. I can well remember riding around with friends argueing over whether we'd heard the entire album and it was time to switch the tape.0 -
i remember there were the 2 dials on the tv. uhf and vhf. sometimes you had to turn both. and there would be that clicking noise every time you changed the channel. not to mention you sometimes you had to move the rabbit ears around for better reception. and every time the vacuume cleaner was on, the tv would get fuzzy.0
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So, my 14 year old came across one of my old record albums and said, "Mom is this an antique CD?" :laugh:0
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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!
I remember the family that got the first VCR on our street. It was 1977, oh boy I'm dated, and they taped the Superbowl. We thought that was amazing. I remember it being huge.0 -
HEY...DO YALL REMEMBER ALL THE DIALS ON THE TELEPHONE...AND IF YOU MESSED UP. YOU HAVE TO HANG UP THE TELEPHONE AND REDIAL 7 NUMBERS AGAIN....HA HA0
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AND WHATS UP WITH OVER 100 CHANNELS...WE HAD 5 CHANNELS...THATS IT....AND IF THE ANTENNA BROKE, YOU STICK PLIERS IN THERE...HA HA....AND ON SUNDAYS AT 12NOON...GODZILLA OR KING KONG CAME ON...I KNOW SOMEBODY IS SAYING WHO IS THAT!!0
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I'm 32. I brought a TI-99/4a computer and Atari 2600 to work last week. Half of the people here had never heard of the TI nor seen a 2600 in person...
Of course, then I had to go to Radio Shack to get adapters that would work with a coaxial input because our TVs no longer have VHF. lmao!
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Ha ha yes!! I knew a girl who had one of these babies, (hers was pink), and was jealous that she had a cool phone in her room!HEY...DO YALL REMEMBER ALL THE DIALS ON THE TELEPHONE...AND IF YOU MESSED UP. YOU HAVE TO HANG UP THE TELEPHONE AND REDIAL 7 NUMBERS AGAIN....HA HA
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At 43, I can relate to it all and this one actually made me LOL!
Thanks for the trip...0 -
This is a fun thread. Just remembered my son once telling me how different it must've been for me growing up. He told me "at least you didn't have guys with makeup w/girls names like Marilyn Manson."
Alice Cooper anyone? :laugh:0 -
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!
I think this is the perfect one to reply to since it was already criticized. :laugh:
I recall my elementary school principal having a paddle, and my parents filled out the permission slip for him to use it if necessary.
Also, we had a ping pong table in our basement was never able to use it because my mother broke all the paddles on our @ss.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
WITNESS!! Can I get an Amen?0 -
I forgot about vinyl cd's - 16 1/2, 33 1/3, 45 and 78 RPM.0
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I'm 29 and remember this!! I still do the Safety Arm, even to My Dad, and We have Our seat belts on... : D0
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Yup. Many times!
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:laugh: Great stuff, thanks OP.
I am 50. When I was growing up, we did not have a dishwasher (except for my sister & I), no dryer for our clothes, no microwave. Mom was afraid of our first microwave oven...lol.
I learned to drive in a car with no power steering, no power windows & locks, no air conditioning with only a AM radio in it. :ohwell:
Who remembers CB radios? How about a deck of cards clipped to your bike spokes? Someone mentioned typewriters...when I was in college, that's how our term papers were done. Ah, so many memories, thanks OP. Yea, I am old like that.
When we moved back stateside (my dad was in the military) and we got our first car... it was a late 80's (I believe or very early 90's) conversion van that had a CB radio in it... on our road trip to our next duty station, mom and dad would talk to the truckers with it... *lol* They would also listen to it so they could avoid the speed traps :laugh:0
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