I'm so old...

When i was a kid a "bit" was what one kid did to another and a "byte" was wrong on a spelling test. I am so old that I remember when a parent was called to the school over little Johnny's behavior, it was little Johnny that got in trouble... Not the teacher. I am so old that I grew up on 25 cent gas, rode in the back of the police chief's pickup-truck, drank from a water hose and played outside until dark. we did not mind having only 3 channels on television because after Daddy got home, he made the show choices anyway... Saved a lot of getting up and changing the channels because the old black and white did not have a remote.. but it DID have vacuum tubes. I remember learning to TYPE on a TYPEWRITER since the only computer in the high school did not have a monitor and had to be programmed with punch cards. Shorthand was a class that was taught and the slide rule was a common sight in the school. I knew better than to tell mom when I got in trouble because I was in double trouble then... There WERE certain advantages to not every family having a telephone ... let alone a cell phone (which did not exist in most markets anyway... but I was really seldom in trouble anyway because getting in trouble was looked down upon rather than encouraged and applauded. A lady was to be respected and certain words were off limits around her... and NEVER did you hear her utter sailor talk.

I remember A-bomb drills at school, we knew the Russians were out to blow us of the face of the earth and got to practice duck and cover at school (the air raid siren tests were a regular thing) . I still remember the announcement on the school p.a. the John Kennedy had been shot (even though we were in Canada Kennedy was very highly regarded and every kid over kindergarten age knew about the Cuban missile crisis - I grew up on Army bases so the Cold War was a part of our lives)

I also remember going to the theatre for a Saturday matinee and my 50¢ weekly allowance would get me in, buy a small coke and popcorn and I'd have enough left over to buy a malted milk at the drugstore (back then most drugstores also had a soda fountain)

Age is just a number! It's all about how you feel! There's plenty of 80 and 90 year olds who feel young and great! There's plenty of 20 somethings and teenage kids who act and feel much older than they are.

Sooo true!!!

.... I have to go to bed now.

Party phone lines, and when someone didn't hang up, you had to walk over to their house, knock on the door and ask them to hang the phone up!

I remember hiding in the closet with the cord hanging out talking to my boyfriend.

When I was growing up we only had one channel. It was KTVO, Kirksville, Ottumwa. Channel 3.

I remember wearing the Little House on The Prairie type pinafores. I loved them!

We sold the church type pictures to earn money for our school. One year I sold the most pictures and won a Bible.

We didn't have running water and we had an outhouse.

When i was a kid a "bit" was what one kid did to another and a "byte" was wrong on a spelling test. I am so old that I remember when a parent was called to the school over little Johnny's behavior, it was little Johnny that got in trouble... Not the teacher. I am so old that I grew up on 25 cent gas, rode in the back of the police chief's pickup-truck, drank from a water hose and played outside until dark. we did not mind having only 3 channels on television because after Daddy got home, he made the show choices anyway... Saved a lot of getting up and changing the channels because the old black and white did not have a remote.. but it DID have vacuum tubes. I remember learning to TYPE on a TYPEWRITER since the only computer in the high school did not have a monitor and had to be programmed with punch cards. Shorthand was a class that was taught and the slide rule was a common sight in the school. I knew better than to tell mom when I got in trouble because I was in double trouble then... There WERE certain advantages to not every family having a telephone ... let alone a cell phone (which did not exist in most markets anyway... but I was really seldom in trouble anyway because getting in trouble was looked down upon rather than encouraged and applauded. A lady was to be respected and certain words were off limits around her... and NEVER did you hear her utter sailor talk.

Amen brother! Weren't we neighbors? JK, but THAT is how it was...

I remember learning DOS commands on this beauty:



And I used to save my files on these!:

Me too!! But to top that, I remember typing many financial statements (I was a secretary for a C.P.A. firm when I was 19) on this lovely machine!


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HyperColor t-shirt?

totally!!!!

I remember wearing 'poor boy tops' and 'hip-hugger pants and skirts' to school. We liked to 'cruise' or hang out at the drive-in. lol

haha, we "cruised the loop" looking for things to do on a Friday night.

we also made our own slip and slides out of black trash bags tacked down on the lawn and someone holding the water hose while the other kids went down

I remember being kicked outside to play, but then not wanting to come back in.

I'm glad I missed the bulk of what the youth has to go through today. I mean we had an NES, cable, and a PC (that good ole' 286) but it wasn't a 24/7 thing. I could never grow up in the social media age.

^^ Yup.

Ahh, Oregon Trail Day at school. Other days it was Number Munchers.

Oregon Trail!! I loved that game. I actually have in now but it's not as fun as it was in 4th grade...

I remember my mother saying "we did not have to like her, or respect her, but we would fear her". She would grab whatever was handy and knock the @#$% out of us, but we deserved it. 7 kids and none of us ever got into trouble or went to jail. Suprisingly she never did either. Parents got to be parents then and kids were kids. I acutally miss that now a days. Oh well, back to the rocking chair for a snooze.

I remember...

~the card catalog at the library
~Ding Dongs wrapped in aluminum foil
~tv weirdness when a picture tube started failing
~defrosting the freezer
~_Adam 12_ reruns after school
~Blue Law Sundays at the grocery store
~The USSR & nightmares about nuclear winter in junior high
~“I want my MTV.”