When I was a kid

[DREDIOCK]

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 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.

8) 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 bellybutton 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 brats!

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!
 

[mechanic]

Yup im not that old but they all apply to me except number 5) and 12)

The DJs when i was young were even worse in the 80s but you could rent tapes from the library and record them before taking them back.

we had microwaves by the time i was old enough to feed myself.

[falcon23]

aint it the truth..

 THis should be a sticky..

[uptown]

    the good ole days 

[Tupac]

It seems like an attack on the younger generation, honestly we arent all bad.

[mbailey]

    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!

Aint it the truth!!!

[BulletVI]

LOL the good old days when you where afraid to swear for fear of mother and father both choosing to slap you across the ear on both side's at the same time. OUTCH. When you go for a lovely drive in the country you F @*&^%$^ Cant see out the car window And when the most fun game on the Atari was 2 lines that went up and down the screen and made a square ball go back and forth over a big long white line that went up and down the middle of the screen. ( that's tennis for all the kids under 20 )  And when answering the phone you had to say Hello you have reached the Murphy's residence in your Sunday best Voice for the fear it was your Grandma Thus if unpolitite she would clip your ear when you went to visit the next Sunday. And having to go to school and be a genius or you got the belt or the can even in some cases made to stand in the corner wearing the dunce hat.

And the freedom of early adult hood was not around. as by aged 19 if you weren't married to a woman you where a poof

Ah those where the days

[Hoarach]

Well in defense of my generation, I'm 20 and turning 21 early next year, were kinda screwed for the future.

There will be no social security by the time we are ready to retire.  

Its actually the older generations that are more guilty texting and driving the younger generations surprisingly.  The time the oil supply is empty in our generation, the world economy will be screwed as I dont see a full conversion to a new energy source anytime soon.  There is also that pesky ozone global warming situation caused by the older generations.  

All I can hope for is that we will be living in space in the next 50-75 years.

Not trying start an argument but just thought I would put a defense up. 

[DREDIOCK]

  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!

Aint it the truth!!!

yup my favorite also.

Matter of fact. Back then if I complained that some adult other then my parents had hit me. I'd get asked.
"Well what did you do to deserve it?"


"nothing" was NOT an acceptable answer
And just about any answer only resulted in me being grounded and possibly smacked again by my parents.


Needless to say. It didnt take long to learn to not tell my parents if someone else smacked me. My larger fear was that that person would tell my parents (which they sometimes did) that they smacked me and why. which again. resulted in me being smacked again by my own parents and /or being grounded.


Gotta admit. it kept me from doing alot of things wrong.

[BulletVI]

Yeah agreed here's a story it happened in my local shopping mall about 2 years back.


Well here i was standing in the Que at Stationary box waiting to pay for some ink cartridges for the printer. And i suddenly hear all this wailing and screaming. Now just out front o the shop was this 4-6 year old kid who was wailing and screaming cos he never got his toy. I mean OK that's normal but the kid was holding onto his mums hand trying to stop her from walking on whilst wailing and screaming. My god the kid could make you death. Also with them was his Grandma and baby sister who may i add was Giggling at her big brother. Any way so they where out front for a good ten minutes trying to get him to stop crying and walk on. And i tell you the kid mum was quite verbal with him you know you say things to get them moving but it wasn't working the kid still stood his ground and his Grandma man she looked liked she just wanted to clout him spank him till he stop crying. Any way i said to the people in front of me and behind me in the Que that you know if she gave him a right good old spanking i wouldn't tell or say a thing about it and they all agreed.

Next thing i got a shock the mother looked at me and then she gave him the Almighty's spanking there and then and i was gobbed smacked. But in the end he stopped crying and walked along like the good little boy he should have been.
Now that shows that Spanking and a good clout around the ear should never have been banned it teaches kid's to say whoa i ant going to do that again

[DREDIOCK]

Oh and when I was a little kid. the closest thing we had to a "video" game

Was "Winky Dink and You"  LMAO

http://www.tvparty.com/requested2b.html

[DREDIOCK]

Yeah agreed here's a story it happened in my local shopping mall about 2 years back.


Well here i was standing in the Que at Stationary box waiting to pay for some ink cartridges for the printer. And i suddenly hear all this wailing and screaming. Now just out front o the shop was this 4-6 year old kid who was wailing and screaming cos he never got his toy. I mean OK that's normal but the kid was holding onto his mums hand trying to stop her from walking on whilst wailing and screaming. My god the kid could make you death. Also with them was his Grandma and baby sister who may i add was Giggling at her big brother. Any way so they where out front for a good ten minutes trying to get him to stop crying and walk on. And i tell you the kid mum was quite verbal with him you know you say things to get them moving but it wasn't working the kid still stood his ground and his Grandma man she looked liked she just wanted to clout him spank him till he stop crying. Any way i said to the people in front of me and behind me in the Que that you know if she gave him a right good old spanking i wouldn't tell or say a thing about it and they all agreed.

Next thing i got a shock the mother looked at me and then she gave him the Almighty's spanking there and then and i was gobbed smacked. But in the end he stopped crying and walked along like the good little boy he should have been.
Now that shows that Spanking and a good clout around the ear should never have been banned it teaches kid's to say whoa i ant going to do that again

My mother will always talk about how she used to say "Your asking for it. and your not going to be happy until you get it" and how one of us would push and push and carry on until she'd had enough and gave one of us a smack. at which point almost without fail whomever it was that was acting up would calm down and behave.

She also likens occasional discipline action to a story she likes to tell about a man who is trying to get a mule to move.
and the man is pushing and pulling an pleading with the mule to move. but to no avail. the mule wont budge.
Another man sitting on a nearby porch chuckles and calls out. "You aint ever going to get that mule to move that way"

Disgusted the first man tells him that if he knows so much that he should come down there and show him how its done.
so the second guy grabs an axe handle. Walks over to the mule and cracks him in the head with it. Then he grabs the reigns and sure enough. The mule follows him.
then he stops, hands the axe handle to the first man and says "First you gotta get his attention"

LOL

[BulletVI]

 

[Chalenge]

When I was a kid...

You had it way too easy youngster! 

[Meatwad]

I have an issue for #9 and #13.........


Back in 1970, the atari 2600 didnt exist until 1977