{"id":3324,"date":"2013-07-06T01:05:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T07:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2013-07-05T08:06:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T14:06:43","slug":"growing-up-without-a-cell-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=3324","title":{"rendered":"Growing Up Without a Cell Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you are 36, or older, you might think this is hilarious!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2026. Uphill\u2026 Barefoot\u2026 BOTH ways\u2026yadda, yadda, yadda<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2019ve got it!<\/strong><\/p>\n

But now that I\u2019m over the ripe old age of forty, I can\u2019t help but look around and notice the youth of today. You\u2019ve 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\u2019t know how good you\u2019ve got it!<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) I mean, when I was a kid we didn\u2019t 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!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

2) There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter \u2013 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!<\/strong><\/p>\n

3) Child Protective Services didn\u2019t 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!<\/strong><\/p>\n

4) There were no MP3\u2032s or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2019d play our favorite tape and \u201ceject\u201d it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that\u2019s how we rolled, Baby! Dig?<\/strong><\/p>\n

6) We didn\u2019t have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that\u2019s it!<\/strong><\/p>\n

7) There weren\u2019t any freakin\u2019 cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn\u2019t make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your \u201cfriends\u201d. OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the horror\u2026 not being in touch with someone 24\/7!!! And then there\u2019s TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.<\/strong><\/p>\n

8) And we didn\u2019t 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\u2026 you just didn\u2019t know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!<\/strong><\/p>\n

9) We didn\u2019t have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like \u2018Space Invaders\u2019 and \u2018Asteroids\u2019. 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!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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 ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what\u2019s the world coming to?!?!<\/strong><\/p>\n

11) There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I\u2019m saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!<\/strong><\/p>\n

12) And we didn\u2019t have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!<\/strong><\/p>\n

13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play\u2026 all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside\u2026 you were doing chores!<\/strong><\/p>\n

And car seats \u2013 oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the \u201csafety arm\u201d 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 \u201cshot gun\u201d in the first place!<\/strong><\/p>\n

See! That\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You\u2019re spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn\u2019t have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Regards,<\/strong>
\nThe Over 40 Crowd<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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