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

[Eugene Walsh]

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73 all de Gene N2AA
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Curt Steger<mailto:csteger515 at gmail.com> 
  To: Second Class Operators' Club<mailto:soc at mailman.qth.net> 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 10:54 AM
  Subject: Re: [SOC] Fw: Hilarious! Growing up without a cell phone -- ForLater


  Our small town in S. Texas still had a party line when I was a kid. We
  actually had to wait for all the gossip to end so we could make a call.

  Every day at 12:00 (high noon) the civil defense siren would be tested.

  If I missed the school bus, "To bad mister, walk you lazy butt to school."

  What is this calculator thingy? I still have and know how to use a slide
  rule. And all the conversions were in the back of the school book or more
  likely, memorized.

  If I misbehaved in school, the teacher paddled me in front of the entire
  class. Then I got another one when I got home. (Note to self, do not get in
  trouble in school)

  When I wanted to get my first car i had to GET A JOB to earn money to pay
  for it.

  And oh yeah, I walked 30 miles each day to school in 5 feet of snow, up hill
  both ways. And we ate dirt and we were glad to have the dirt to eat.

  73 DE NA7CS

  On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Charles Harpole <k4vud at hotmail.com<mailto:k4vud at hotmail.com>> wrote:

  >
  > I learned to read by coal oil lamp light.  I still have the lamp.
  >
  > Charles Harpole k4vud at hotmail.com<mailto:k4vud at hotmail.com>
  >