[SOC] Fw: Hilarious! Growing up without a cell phone -- For Later

[Charles Harpole]

I learned to read by coal oil lamp light.  I still have the lamp.

Charles Harpole k4vud at hotmail.com 

 

 




 
> From: wb9ukq at ticon.net
> To: soc at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:09:50 -0500
> Subject: [SOC] Fw: Hilarious! Growing up without a cell phone -- For Later
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> If you are 30, or older, you might think this is hilarious!
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> 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
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> 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!
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> 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!
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> 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!!
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> 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!
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> 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!
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> 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!
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> 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?
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> 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!
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> 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?!?!
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> 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!
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> And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to 
> use the stove! Imagine that!
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> 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 1980 or any time before!
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> Regards,
> The Over 30 Crowd
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