A friend forwarded the message below this morning. It got me laughing and thinking about how I will lecture Evy with all of this one day....
When I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!
There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk across the street and put it in the mailbox!
There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio.
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.
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!
There weren't any cell phones either. If you left the house you actually had to be out of touch with your "friends."Think of the horror!
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. You had to pick it up and take your chances!
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!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You had to get up and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!
There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons.
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!
It's a wonder we ever survived.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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4 comments:
my mom still throws her arm out when she has to stop too suddenly...
My older sister rolled out the car door when my Dad went around a corner too quickly. Somehow she hit the latch and it popped open. No major injuries, but I guess it shows that some of the safety equipment has a purpose.
Scott
LOL...My sister rolled out of the car and my dad drug her around the corner! We still laugh about it!
The other day I was just talking about how my neighbors and I would play outside until dark EVERY day. We didn't even worry about dinner or anything...we just played and played and played! Kids don't do that anymore.
This is sooooo true to my childhood... I'm stealing this one for my blog...
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