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KnightofMists -> RE: Growing up without a cell phone.... (5/1/2010 9:10:29 AM)
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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop
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
well they did you know.... but.... I got shoes and my parents made sure that I knew I was lucky to have them as I walked both ways up that (&!*&^%$) hill
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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!
I never made promises I couldn't keep!
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But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, 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!
you got that right!!!!
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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 damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
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!
My parents had smoke signals or telephones that you had to crank! we had party lines... and no that wasn't a party.... hard to have a hot conversation on the phone with the nosey Mrs Jones listening in. There was no Privacy on them things....
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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 ass! Nowhere was safe!
yeah... you tended to pick your friends based on how hard their mom hit you... and you never went to their place when the dad was around!!!!
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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!
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?
don't forget.. it was 8 Track..... oh maybe that's before your time! Lets just say... that what you put on your Ipod for music would fill the trunk of my beater of a car!!!! Just try and find that song you wanted to listen to..... seems like it was on the bottom of the pille every time!!!
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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!
yeah.. we had call waiting.... you waited for the nosey Mrs Jones to stop talking on that party line about her hemorrhoids to her sister! so you could make a 15 seconded coded call so Mrs jones didn't know what it meant!
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There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOD !!! 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.
yeah... but when they did come... well... it was like carrying a suitcase. Made a womens purse seem light in comparison.
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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!
but not to worry... when you answered that ring... your ring... Mrs Jones had already picked up and tells you who it is when you say hello! damn party lines. And no sense telling the principle that your parents are not home... because that bitch Mrs Jones pipes in and says.... well I see you dad outside at the shed!!!! Might as well go out and get him and while you their get a switch and wait behind the shed!
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We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had 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!
tell me about it.... but what is Atari 2600..... and you forgot to make note you had two colours... black and white!!!!
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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 ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!
change the channel... why would you want to watch static on the screen? only one channel and if you lucky you had colour... some was stuck with black and white.
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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-finks!
wait, that we did and nothing cool was on either like transformers....
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And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
yeah.. we were just thankful that it wasn't a wood stove... our parents made sure to remind us of that! I can just hear how much wood they cut in a day just to eat and stay warm
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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 1980 or any time before!
no child locks on the doors either....I remember my brother opening the door of the car while it was moving and falling out... unfortuantely... my mom missed him!!!as she was backing up..... but there was a next time!
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Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd
(note to Mods.. I tried to fix the font and size, ... opps, never mind,..)
regards from the over 40 crowd!
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