bushmanbilly
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Post by bushmanbilly on Mar 17, 2012 15:23:46 GMT -5
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 damn 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 ass! 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 damn 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 ass 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-bastards!
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 (Send this to someone you'd like to make smile)
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Post by manofglass on Mar 17, 2012 16:10:13 GMT -5
I remember the good old days thank you Walt
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Post by shermlock on Mar 17, 2012 16:35:52 GMT -5
Great thread! Scott
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Post by NatureNut on Mar 17, 2012 17:26:17 GMT -5
Ah haha... this is great!
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Post by Toad on Mar 17, 2012 22:14:18 GMT -5
Love it. How about rotary phones...
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Post by helens on Mar 17, 2012 22:15:33 GMT -5
That's so true!!! Although I think we were better off, because we got outside way more than kids do today.
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Post by bushmanbilly on Mar 17, 2012 22:38:25 GMT -5
So true, funny thing is I tell my kids that and they look at me funny. I laugh at my daughters music. Our old tunes redone. I tell her that song that song came out in 72. She finally believes me after I dig out my old cassetts and 8 tracks.
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Post by Woodyrock on Mar 18, 2012 1:27:21 GMT -5
Wow....way back in '70 no less! You forgot the local police also had permission to whop your butt. I still remember the local constable in Charlottetown taking his belt off the give me a few. Can not remember what I had done, but I am reasonable sure I did not do it again, nor did I tell my parents the constable had warmed my butt.............that would have only got it warmed up some more. Oh, and I can still dial a rotary in the dark, but not one of these new button things. Woody
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Post by jakesrocks on Mar 18, 2012 17:05:40 GMT -5
Love it. How about rotary phones... Rotary phone ? Man you kids had it easy. I can remember one of those phones hanging on the wall with a hand crank and exposed bells at the top. The operators name was Mable. It was 2 cranks on the handle and hey Mable, give me so and so. I can remember hauling water from the well and heating it on the wood fired stove. And the ice man coming every week to put a block of ice in the ice box. Down the hill and across the old covered bridge to town in a beat up Model A Ford. Town consisted of 2 or 3 houses and a building that served as general store, post office, phone exchange and gas station. There was one pump for gas. It was the type where you pump gas by hand into a cylinder at the top, then put the nozzle in your tank and let it run into your gas tank. Candy at the store was a penny, and a coke was a nickle Ya, you kids of the 70's had it rough alright. lol
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Post by unclestu on Mar 18, 2012 18:26:35 GMT -5
As a kid I loved making prank calls to strangers. The kids today don't know what they are missing because of caller ID LOL I longed for snow to fall. That meant if we were lucky school would be closed just like for the kids of today. However when I was a kid snow plus a closed school equaled an income opportunity. I remember one winter day my father came home and after a long day shoveling I had more money in my pocket then he had. Try to get a kid to shovel the snow. I tried last winter when my snow blower went on the fritz and we were snowed in the winter befor last. I couldn't get one taker for an opportunity to make $. One kid looked up at me from his game boy and said why would I want to shovel I get an allowance. So I asked him if he knew who Abraham Lincoln was. You can't take anything for granted with the kids of today. Well the brat rolled his eyes so I knew he realized that he was a past president of the U S I then asked him what good old Abe would have been doing at his age. He replied to me that he didn't know but he did know one thing about good old Abe. So I said what is that and he said when he was my age he was president of the U S, he then went back to his game boy. Well at that time I was rescued by a tribe of illegal imigrants armed with shovels and they shoveled me out. By the time they were done game boy was gone. Stu
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 18, 2012 18:54:00 GMT -5
*LOL* Child of the fifties here.
I remember tiny screen black and white TV's and before that radio dramas. Hi ho Silver! *L*
Pac Man and Atari nope. Checkers, Monopoly, Parchesi, jig saw puzzles etc etc were rainy day fare..
Remember party lines. Man they sucked if your neighbor was a teen gal who talked on the phone all day. Dang that Elvis loving, pony tailed blonde gal, was cute though. How bout the first transister radio? We thought they were tiny but they were huge and didn't get hardly any stations *L*
I remember all the fun diseases that we all caught back then. Measles, mumps, chicken pox, bad flu, scarlet fever, Polio ( I was paralyzed for about a year with a mild case). Oh, and remember A-bomb drills in school.
I remember the neighbor boy blowing up the first microwave in the neighborhood and they also had the only pool ( a Johnny Weismueler), and the first color TV and the first 55 Buick ( to this day my favorite car).
I remember Red Rider BB guns, Howdy Doody Time and freaking Lawrence Welk my folks never missed. And the Micky Mouse Club with all the cute little gals all us young boys were in love with.
Child services *L* My pop had him a temper. Belts, fists and even boots were the rule for the boy child in my house. That all ended when I got big enough to kick his ass for a change *L*
Oh man, I remember my first motorized wheels too, a Honda 55 when I was fifteen. Saved all summer for it. Twenty seven cent a gallon gas too. Man, I could actually drive to my job and all over the place. That was so cool until I realized you needed a car to get the girls *L*.
Oh, and I remember we we all had full heads of hair and the barber shop had dirty mags like Playboy and charts on the wall to pick your favorite teen idol's hair style from. My favorite was the "forward combed boogie". I think Kookie made it popular. It were big, stuck out in front, ducktail in back, swept back on the sides and edges, took a pound of butch wax and a half hour extra in the morning to get it combed right. Oh, and the only sneakers you wanted were Converse All Stars. Anything else and you were a lameoid.
We spent most all our time outside raising hell, learning how to talk dirty, fighting, playing ball, shootin BB guns and jousting on bikes. And we had the coolest freaking music ( Elvis, Buddy, Frankie and Annette, etc etc. We went to my uncles farm and rode cows and horses, chased the barefoot gals next door ( even caught a few *L*) and fooled around in the hay loft.
Know what, screw the lazy spoiled kids of today. Some are still great but most ain't worth spit and feel all entitled and all. Man us kids had it made back in the fifties and sixties. We lived balls to the walls back then. We worked hard and played hard. Don't get no better than that!....Mel
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 18, 2012 18:56:17 GMT -5
The party line that people had to be on!!! Yuppers,the cops and teachers could whip your butt!Music was better in the older days too.........Gas was 35 cents a gallon,smokes were a quarter.....A buck for a six pack of lager.......10 cent candy bars and 10 cents for a coke! Still to this day,I don't own a cell phone....Don't want one either!
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Post by meta99 on Mar 18, 2012 19:45:53 GMT -5
Duck and cover, Mel!
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Post by Woodyrock on Mar 19, 2012 1:06:44 GMT -5
10 cent candy bars? Crap, one of the most traumatic events (not that we knew about these then) was going down to the small store with three cents in my hand to get a Hershey's bar. They had gone up to a nickle, I think I cried all the way home...about two miles. Right after that we went to Germany (dad on embassy duty) and all the relatives sent cases of of Hershey bars to us........all of which went to the Berlin airlift for the German kids. Woody
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Post by chassroc on Mar 19, 2012 7:14:50 GMT -5
Child of the 50s... Music of the 60s and 70s...doesnt get any better than that Charlie
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Post by Hard Rock Cafe on Mar 19, 2012 12:42:36 GMT -5
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