Before Cell Phones

[ufospy]

Default Growing Up without a Cell Phone

    If you are 30, 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 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!



    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!

    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!

    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?

    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!

    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.

    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!

    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!

    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?!?!

    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!

    And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!

    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 luckily, 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 1980or any time before!
    Regards, The Over 30 Crowd

[PathWayMan]

Hell yea well said how true 

[homewrecker john]

Hell yea well said how true 

Man...this brings me back to my childhood!!!!

[7387chevynut]

Hell yea well said how true 

Man...this brings me back to my childhood!!!!

ME TOO!!!!

[Uncle Steve]

  i remeber when there was only black and white TV ,,

Hell yea well said how true 

Man...this brings me back to my childhood!!!!

ME TOO!!!!

[ufospy]

UNCLE STEVE is a Grandpa now,,,, Congrats!

[Hammerlane]

Ah yes,, the days of rotary dial phones that had a cord attatched to the phone.. and another one attatching that to the wall.. you only went as far as the cord would let you.
party lines (thats when someone else shared the same phone line as you.. not a beer party)
riding in the BACK of a pickup truck.. on the top rail!!!
snow(mobile) boots that had felt inserts..
push mowers.. um.. 6 acres to cut once a week.. you had to EARN the right to use the tractor.
hand shears for trimming.. no 2 stroke weed whips here
something you want?? GET A JOB.. no mommy/daddy handouts here.
(I worked 2 whole summers to get my first motorcycle)
want to sleep in the house tonight??? stalls better be clean.. or you sleep with the horse.
want dinner.. take care of those that can't fend for themselves (dogs/cats/horses) FIRST !
(dad would give your dinner to them if you sat down to eat without tending to them)
break a tool so you did'nt have to do the job.. do the job anyhow!! with the busted tool.
(ever try and clean horse stalls with a wheelless wheelbarrow???)
leave your toys outside in the rain !? they're your toys.. broken?? tuff.. shoulda taken better care of it.


spoiled rotten lil brats !?   , thats what grandma used to call us..

[dsJeep]

this is so true

[Bowtie972]

oh yea , all fond memories!  I remember having to sit on the floor and flip the 3 channels we had for my dad! thank god we didnt have the 200-300 channels like we have now!  lol   Oh, 2 acres of grass  to cut (and bag) with pushmower!    And right after I moved out my dad bought a brand new cub cadet & central air!    No sleeping in  either, up at 6:30, workin on the farm at my grandpas, some summer vacation! 

[4xjeepfreak]

how will these kids make it ??  ==hmmm

[Jjay78]

i musta been lucky, i got a nintendo with mario and duckhunt....but i do remember playing pitfall and pacmanand all the good cartoon being over by 9 or 9:30 saturday morning...oh and getting a coke or a mt dew... ha yeah right all i got was a go make kool aid or go ride your bike to to store....i don't care if it is a million miles you wana pop go get it, and use your birthday or christmas money i'm not paying for it.......and actually had to use a pair of big scissors once to trim.... thought breaking the spark plug would get me outa having to weedwack.....

[havinfun22]

this is for us girls!!!! No curling irons or blowdryers  WE HAD TO WEAR CUrLERs FOR HOURS or go to the beauty shop. only rich people had dishwashers,oh yeah shopping that was on occasion not an everyday event. babysitting was by us kids  not day care, older sibling beating you and gets away with it.  life in the good old days!

[big red]

I think i could live back then... I dont watch much T.V. i dont mind working all day for not much of nothing. Dont have a cellphone, and really dont want one.. push mower? lets go...

[RIP_K52007]

Wonder how easy the kids will have it in another 30 years...

your life sucked hahaha

[KORNBREAD]

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?



OMG TO WEIRD I WAS JUST TELLING MY SON THAT SAME THING WHEN I WAS GROWING UP THATS HOW I HAD TO MAKE MUSIC!!. TO FUNNY~~.

[Kyle]

nobody mentioned CBs? cmon really?!!

[GregYAMAHA]

yea alot of kids younger then me have everytthing no chores 3 or 4hundred dollar video game systems. some kids my age dont even know what a vcr is or what it means! i may be young myself but i grasp the concept of hard work, responsibility, concenquences, respect for elders. people these days wouldnt survive in the woods for a week. but some of us kids are lucky to know better as my dad says lol

[roodawakening]

well put!!!!!!

[redneck taylor]

yea alot of kids younger then me have everytthing no chores 3 or 4hundred dollar video game systems. some kids my age dont even know what a vcr is or what it means! i may be young myself but i grasp the concept of hard work, responsibility, concenquences, respect for elders. people these days wouldnt survive in the woods for a week. but some of us kids are lucky to know better as my dad says lol

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[danwheeler660]

thats funny