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Hilarious! Growing up without a cell phone

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... Bar...efoot... 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.

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! 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!

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

 

[the_real_wild1]

Awesome. I am stealing it.

 

[DDrake]

Hilarious and so true.

 

[AreWeThereYet]

I had a Colecovision, we couldn't afford an Atari 2600.

Playing on a 13" B&W TV was awesome

 

[CamoKVF700]

This song sums it up nicely.

http://youtu.be/HJWEvP9gtww

 

[CamoKVF700]

I had an Atom computer with the built in Colecovision... with the printer that looked like a typewriter and clicked and clacked like an old locomotive was running through the house.

 

[AreWeThereYet]

I had an Atom computer with the built in Colecovision... with the printer that looked like a typewriter and clicked and clacked like an old locomotive was running through the house.

I also had a commodore Vic 20

 

[moyiesledhead]

I had black and white TV and a bike with only one gear!

 

[Lightningmike]

Vic 20 also. You nailed it on the head. I ride my kids ass every day about that stuff. I have 3 kids. Boy girl boy. 26 to 20. Girl is the only one that forgets about her phone if we are out hunting and she won't even hunt. The boys ... Phone in front of face texting or what ever. Critters runnin by in front of them and have no firkin clue.

 

[DaveB]

I also had a commodore Vic 20

Me too. LOL. Also had a Sears "banana bike" with 1 gear and B&W TV. Cable? LOL....what's cable?

 

[Lightningmike]

Me too. LOL. Also had a Sears "banana bike" with 1 gear and B&W TV. Cable? LOL....what's cable?

Channel 2 & 4 wtf. Turn the dial?? Lol

 

[woody_tobius_jr]

One word Pong, 3 levels...meant smaller paddles.
We had 3 channels, we'd get the fuzzy french channel that you might get to see a fuzzy boob on the late show on the weekend...and when the late movie was over, the Canadian anthem was played folllowed by a test pattern until about 5:30 or 6:00am on Sunday, when the church shows would start...
My brother and I would sneak over to my great grandma's house, cause she would be watching Stampede Wrasslin with Ed Whalen ( we weren't allowed to watch it at our house).
Good times

 

[imdoo'n]

fawk you guys had it made, all we had was a stick.

 

[byronkentgraham]

fawk you guys had it made, all we had was a stick.

And once you found another stick you created fire right?

 

[imdoo'n]

only had one stick, till the dog took it and ran away, friggin dogs. we then got a rock, threw it at the friggin dog.

 

[teeroy]

One word Pong, 3 levels...meant smaller paddles.
We had 3 channels, we'd get the fuzzy french channel that you might get to see a fuzzy boob on the late show on the weekend...and when the late movie was over, the Canadian anthem was played folllowed by a test pattern until about 5:30 or 6:00am on Sunday, when the church shows would start...
My brother and I would sneak over to my great grandma's house, cause she would be watching Stampede Wrasslin with Ed Whalen ( we weren't allowed to watch it at our house).
Good times

lol...that was the first video game I ever played, on an old B&W because the older folks were certain that damn "video game" would wreck the color tv. remember the ACT telethons? we would stay up all night just because the tv had something to watch...lol

 

[snopro]

One word Pong, 3 levels...meant smaller paddles.
We had 3 channels, we'd get the fuzzy french channel that you might get to see a fuzzy boob on the late show on the weekend...and when the late movie was over, the Canadian anthem was played folllowed by a test pattern until about 5:30 or 6:00am on Sunday, when the church shows would start...
My brother and I would sneak over to my great grandma's house, cause she would be watching Stampede Wrasslin with Ed Whalen ( we weren't allowed to watch it at our house).
Good times

Nothing better than Eddie Whalen taking that popsicle stick away from Abdullah the Butcher and using it on him. Lmao!! Same here Woody. Stampede Wrestling at Grandma's house.

 

[teeroy]

Nothing better than Eddie Whalen taking that popsicle stick away from Abdullah the Butcher and using it on him. Lmao!! Same here Woody. Stampede Wrestling at Grandma's house.

the best part of Stampede Wrestling was that Ed Whalen was sure it was all real....he was the best.

 

[snopro]

I know my Grandma thought it was real. Lol.

 

[woody_tobius_jr]

Oh yeah the telethons! When we moved back to Edmonton from the farm, the local telethon was 1 number off of our phone number, by the time the telethon was over my old man was ready to shoot somebody

We used to play the pong game on the B&W and then we hooked it up to the folks color tv and whattya know, on color tv it was black and white too!