Before Cell Phones

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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

 

[cody93]

i agree, altho im 16, kids today are spolied lil turds. trust me, im not spolied, i was the only kid in high school rockin a tape player.

my first computer i got was back in 2005, i still use it, it was a 1989 compaq deskpro 386 with a 80mb harddrive and MS-DOS!

my first cellphone was in 2006, and it didn;t even have a color or black n white screen, heck the date of manufacture is febuary of 1993!, danm phone is older than me, its an old analog motorola microtac brickphone, i dont even have a cellphone since 08 cause they turned of analog in the cities.

and as far as music players, i had a beaten up tape player that i used everywere, that i still use today, i dont even like mp3 players, cd players or anything else forthat matter, im keeping the stock radio in my ranger stock! i prefere tapes anyday! i was the only kid at school rockin judas priest, eagles, journey, black sabath, metalica, motley crue, etc on TAPE!!! seemed like all the girls at school cant keep there danm face out of there phone texting thier friend 10 ft away from them at all, i just didn't fit in there, i beated up alot of stuck up "OMG, whatever" ppl at school cause i just cant stand being around such fagoritory, heck, i tought the ghetto kids how to pick lockers and all the stuckup kids were freakin out cause they got there cellphone/ipods taken, they deserve it for treating those without like crap. eventually in 10th grade i just said screw it, and droped out. man, i would love to live in the 80s.

 

[mc_muench]

Honestly, being 17 I think I could live back then, I don't take all those things for granted...yes, they are real nice to have but not necessary. The only thing I'd prolly miss is the internet, not because of facebook or anything like that but for the info thats on it.

 

[Spitfire1975]

Ms-wtf?

 

[7.5L_STX]

i agree, im 19, and i no longer have a cell phone, because i shut it off. i was sick of the texting and everybody knowing what i was doing all the time, i sold the iPod i got for christmas, all 3 of them actually. ill admit i do have a myspace, but thats all i use computers for is to get info for my ranger and to keep in touch with friends that have moved away. i would much rather have grew up in the 70's/80's.

 

[MrE_Powers]

they dont seem to have a work ethic either. i see so many people that have no problem just dicking around on the clock i am a person that i gets bored when i dont have enough work. If i get done early i go home early, how ever i would LOVE to work 10-12 hour days

 

[Ranger Sport Honduras]

lol im 23, and i went to some of that stuff lol
life was funnier those days

 

[Spitfire1975]

they dont seem to have a work ethic either. i see so many people that have no problem just dicking around on the clock i am a person that i gets bored when i dont have enough work. If i get done early i go home early, how ever i would LOVE to work 10-12 hour days

70-80 hour work weeks get old real fast.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I got my first cell in 02 or 03. It was huge... but it had free games on it.

I hate texting other than short quick messages that don't warrent a phone call.

Got my first CD player in 01, my Ranger didn't even have cassette originally and that was no fun.

No way whatsoever I would get rid of my cell, my cd players or my MP3 player.

 

[hoosier1104]

I work in IT and have unplugged for weeks at a time to appreciate what I have. I have a Blackberry that I get my email on but during that time frame it goes unchecked. It gives you better appreciation of what you have I think.

 

[hoosier1104]

Just curious on what brought this all about?

 

[skyhigh91]

Google search laziest countries, it is very surprising.....

 

[hoosier1104]

That does not surprise me at all. Children today have a shorter[\b] life expectancy than their parents. It is actually pretty sad.

 

[LIMA BEAN]

Yea and you brats get to have cute fury doggies too, all we had back in the day was always hungry dinosaurs. Lucky i did get my arse ate, dumb dam t-rex anyways.

 

[cody93]

gee, i could easily live without text messages or digital music. gimme a tape player and a analog cellphone and stick me in the country side, i wouldn't give a danm if the big citties got nuked by N korea or IRAN

Yea and you brats get to have cute fury doggies too, all we had back in the day was always hungry dinosaurs. Lucky i did get my arse ate, dumb dam t-rex anyways.

ive stepped on a couple of those "cute lil doggies" by accident before, not so cute aftewards, there fault for nipping my heels, i just call them ankle bitters, seems like a trend by teen girls to have a mutt that can fit in a purse and make nugget sized turds, particualy the dumb blonde ones