Humor -Growing up without a Cell Phone

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

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.

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

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.

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!!

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

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:

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

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.

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!!