A Funny Story from the Over 30 crowd

[Matty64]

I remember moving up north from Milwaukee and having a 'party line' and the busy body neighbor listening in and you could not use the phone when it was raining because the lines were bare wire on the poles. and getting my first paycheck and getting an FM converter from Kmart for my 72 chev 1/2 ton with the 3 on the tree.

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[laz]

ORIGINAL: whaap

You guys from the 80's don't know how good you had it !!!!

How about no television. How about no kind of video games at all. If you wanted to play music you either turned the radio on or hand cranked the Victrola. If you wanted water you had to walk to the well to get it. If you had to take a dump in the middle of the night it could get pretty spooky for a kid going outside and walking to the outhouse. If you wanted to take a bath (or just wash) you had to heat the water up on the stove. In the winter you had to go out and shovel coal for the one stove that heated the whole house. When the phone rang you didn't even know if it was for you until you heard the complete ring cycle as you were on a party line. You had to hand crank your grand dads car to get it started.

And the worst thing of all is you had to kick over your Harley to get it started !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...(channeling Dana Carvey)...."and we LIKED IT!!!!!!!!"

[PapaTravis]

I was born in '72. I remember the first family VCR. No TiVo, like I have today. It cost my mother several hundred bucks, movie selection was limited, and expensive. It didn't have a remote, either. Just this little handle with a long cable that plugged in to the unit, and it would only pause it... nothing else. Cable box, with a cable attached. if you hit more than one button, the screen would get all fuzzy. Had a tv with a rotary dial. No remote. A library card. LOL, Yes, times have changed.

[Mikey 1450]

I remember doing highermath without a calculator. Cars that had 3 on the tree andno fm radio's, only am.

[Xchief]

Now over 50....do you guys remember :
Respect for your parents, family, your elders, and how about the police.
Working on the old cars and actually being able to see the plugs and engine block.
Riding your bike all over town til dark, and not worring about preditors.
stick ball, football in the yard.
Push mowers (no engine) , leaf raking.
Helping your neighbors with there yard.

When did it all start to change ?

[HDRick]

Installing a "Reverb" unit in my dad's 1960 Impala. That was so cool. Those were the days. The only Harley rider I knew worked at the Bowling Alley and kids weren't allowed in Bowling Alleys. The road to sin. Those really were the days.

[sleepneagle]

during a math test; we couldn't use a slide rule (early calculator).

[flstfjeff]

A little "yes Ma'am" and "no Sir" would also go a long way.Being raised military,and in the south,I thought my mothers name was "Mrs.Ma'am".

[HDRick]

ORIGINAL: Xchief

Now over 50....do you guys remember :
Respect for your parents, family, your elders, and how about the police.
Working on the old cars and actually being able to see the plugs and engine block.
Riding your bike all over town til dark, and not worring about preditors.
stick ball, football in the yard.
Push mowers (no engine) , leaf raking.
Helping your neighbors with there yard.

When did it all start to change ?

Respect for elders. Boy, we are old. Most kids today, given our fine school system, don't know what the word elders means. Preditors, if identified, just seemed to disappear or went fishing and never came back. Also just remembered our paperboy, who delivered papers on his Schwinn, not in a Silverado. Papers were cheap then and actually had news printed in them. Oh well, back to reality.

[HarleyGirl76]

Sorry....can't understand a word you're saying.

Lisa