Back in the Day
It is hard to not notice how the young people of today have it easy compared to when we were growing up. Remember?
= 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 letters with a pen (which many of us still do). 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. Instead of CD players, we had a tape deck in the car and when we'd play our favorite tape it would come undone when ejected.
= In our world without cell phones, when you left the house, you just didn't make or receive calls. You actually had to be out of touch with your friends for a while. And we didn't have caller ID. When the phone rang, you had no idea if it was your school, your boss or your bookie. 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 and your screen guy was a little square and 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.

 = Not having microwaves, when 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.

The question then becomes: How long would today’s kids last in the “back then” world?