Back in the Day
Adults have a reputation for boring kids with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were back in the day. What with walking twenty-five miles to school every day...uphill... barefoot...yadda, yadda, yadda! However, now it is hard to not notice how the youth of today has it easy compared to when we were growing up! I wonder if they appreciate it.
= We grew up without the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up, in the card catalog!!
= There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter with a pen! Then had to walk all the way to the corner to put it in the mailbox! Stamps were 10 cents!
= There were no MP3's 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. There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our cars to play our favorite songs, and when ejected the tape would come undone rendering it useless.
= We didn't have cell phones. If you left the house, you just didn't make a call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". Think of the horror of not being in touch with someone 24/7! And we didn't have Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your boss, your bookie, the collection agent ... You had to pick it up to find out!
= We didn't have any fancy 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.
Adults have a reputation for boring kids with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were back in the day. What with walking twenty-five miles to school every day...uphill... barefoot...yadda, yadda, yadda! However, now it is hard to not notice how the youth of today has it easy compared to when we were growing up! I wonder if they appreciate it.
= We grew up without the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up, in the card catalog!!
= There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter with a pen! Then had to walk all the way to the corner to put it in the mailbox! Stamps were 10 cents!
= There were no MP3's 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. There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our cars to play our favorite songs, and when ejected the tape would come undone rendering it useless.
= We didn't have cell phones. If you left the house, you just didn't make a call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". Think of the horror of not being in touch with someone 24/7! And we didn't have Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your boss, your bookie, the collection agent ... You had to pick it up to find out!
= We didn't have any fancy 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.
= You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! When it came to channel surfing you had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel.
=There was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning. Unlike today’s spoiled kids we had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons.
= And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove!
= And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove!
=And our parents told us to stay outside and play all day long. No electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside you were doing chores!
= As for car seats, 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!
The question then is: How long would today’s kids last in the “back then” world?
= As for car seats, 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!
The question then is: How long would today’s kids last in the “back then” world?
