Something from your childhood that today’s kids wouldn’t know about
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My freshman year of college I had an 87 Camry 5-speed and I broke the key off in the ignition. After a while the pliers I used to start the car wouldn’t turn the key past on. Soooo, for a couple months I would park on a hill and pop the clutch to get it started. I would either leave it running or not park anywhere with no hills.
Similar: When my kids were little and I was trying to teach them to play golf, they asked me, "Dad, why do they call them 'woods'?"
Naked women with bush and tanlines in movies and nudie mags
cracked magazine
cigarette vending machines
Fun dip
not being able to pick what you watched or listened to
being able to knuckleup without having to worry about going viral
cracked magazine
cigarette vending machines
Fun dip
not being able to pick what you watched or listened to
being able to knuckleup without having to worry about going viral
UK basketball players playing 4 years in college.
Also...
I almost died on one of these.
But man, you could jerk a hell of a wheelie on one.
Walking to and from school. That's where all the fun was.
Pretty sure I started to walk by myself in 5th grade.
Pretty sure I started to walk by myself in 5th grade.
Saw one the other day at the local Peddler's Mall...for $50. If they're actually selling for that much, I could go gather up all of the old ones my family has, stick $20 on each of 'em, and make a small fortune. :chairshot:
In hs, I spent my lunch money most every morning on pinball machines and pool. I weighed a whopping 135 lbs when I graduated.
Not having the score and time in the corner of the screen and the first down line.
Calling collect to your parents home and they not excepting the Charges as way to tell them you had arrived safely to somewhere so there be no Long Distance Charges.
Throwing trash out your car window/litter on the highway.
I feel fortune to be an in betweener....so I understand and can adapt to all the new technology and am not oblivious and at the same time grew up without all of this nonsense and remember what it's like to do nothing but play outside and not plop in front of the TV.
I find myself using the internet pretty much for music and UK updates. Cut out cable entirely, it was a complete waste of money and time.
Making a concerted effort to go back to how things used to be generally....spend my time working out, playing music, reading books, watching or listening on radio to sports. Cut out the nonstop media sensationalist crap. And that God awful tripe on TV.
But I'm young enough to not be "old man yelling at the sky" yet old enough to remember how things were as a youngin in the 80s and kid/teen in the 90s and see how it evolved into what things are today. It really was better then. I prefer my 90s music but wish I'd been older in the 80s. The internet and social media really have changed society and IMO mostly not for the better.
I find myself using the internet pretty much for music and UK updates. Cut out cable entirely, it was a complete waste of money and time.
Making a concerted effort to go back to how things used to be generally....spend my time working out, playing music, reading books, watching or listening on radio to sports. Cut out the nonstop media sensationalist crap. And that God awful tripe on TV.
But I'm young enough to not be "old man yelling at the sky" yet old enough to remember how things were as a youngin in the 80s and kid/teen in the 90s and see how it evolved into what things are today. It really was better then. I prefer my 90s music but wish I'd been older in the 80s. The internet and social media really have changed society and IMO mostly not for the better.
A game of Galaga or Ms. Pac Man at Pizza Hut while you wait for an actual pizza and breadsticks that tastes decent.
Atari 5200 in 1982 was the greatest invention in my eyes. Well, that and He-Man.
Atari 5200 in 1982 was the greatest invention in my eyes. Well, that and He-Man.
Still got my Atari 2600 and 5200 consoles. The 2600 still my favorite console but Pac Man on the 5200 was and still is Amazing to me!
Shoulda kept them pregnant in the summer and barefoot in the winter. That was the ticket.
Party lines, fluoride swish at school, everyone in the county being able to whip your *** if they saw you misbehaving because it was understood and reciprocated county wide
I'll see your fluoride swish and raise you milk break.
Even though they were really before my time so to speak (again...born in 83) I grew up with a record player/8track console. My folks music taste wasn't generally great, though there was some Chicago, Neil Diamond, Elvis, The Association....those are the albums I remember and/or kept myself.
But my point is, I knew how to operate a record player as a result, and going a few houses down to my buddies house as a young teenager in the mid 90s and putting on AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Foghat, Lynyrd Skynyrd.......I didn't even know about those bands or what station they were on. Our house was all news radio...WLAP or WVLK or Oldies 103.3 , Mix 94.5 or Kiss 96.9. And that feeling you got when you heard one of those albums come on, on a record, and had the stereo cranked the eff up......CD, tape, digital, none of it is the same. There really is magic in that wax.
So I really have an appreciation for a lot of ****** pop music and old 50s and 60s tunes that people today REALLY don't listen to.
But my point is, I knew how to operate a record player as a result, and going a few houses down to my buddies house as a young teenager in the mid 90s and putting on AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Foghat, Lynyrd Skynyrd.......I didn't even know about those bands or what station they were on. Our house was all news radio...WLAP or WVLK or Oldies 103.3 , Mix 94.5 or Kiss 96.9. And that feeling you got when you heard one of those albums come on, on a record, and had the stereo cranked the eff up......CD, tape, digital, none of it is the same. There really is magic in that wax.
So I really have an appreciation for a lot of ****** pop music and old 50s and 60s tunes that people today REALLY don't listen to.
We might possibly be the only posters here that know what a doodle bug is. Lol
Noted. I'll see your milk break and raise you a smoking area at the grade school for 6th, 7th and 8th graders and raise you every boy starting school with hands stained with tobacco gum.
A teen asked me to a read shopping list his mother wrote out. It was in Cursive.
All right. I'm all in with climbing ropes that went to the rafters with a bell at the top which made you have to take a hand off to ring it... and a thin gymnastics mat at the bottom to break your fall.
When my oldest son got his drivers license I told him to sign the paper. He had no clue how to sign his name.
I swear I think everyone did this.
How about calling a radio station to request a song then waiting for it to be played so you could record it.
I tried to do this for Bobby Brown's "Every Little Step I Take" to record it for the 5th grade talent show and the prick DJ kept telling me he was going to play it and never did.
Most of what I had in mind was mentioned already.
My uncle worked for the local cable company and showed us a trick to get all the channels on the old slider box. You stuck a knife in the bottom edge of the box near the wire going into it and bend it back and the channel unscrambled. Then you just flip the box over and sit it where the knife stayed bent and in place.
Sucked being the human remote control. At least there was only a few channels to choose from to limit the amount of time flipping through those channels.
I spent many hours sitting at the kitchen table next to the window unit in the crappy little house we rented. Only air conditioning for the whole house. It did have this huge exhaust fan in the utility room that would pull air through the house when the windows were open and we didn't have the a/c on. The only heat it had was from a big vent in the hallway floor that heated the whole house.
I had a Tuesday morning tradition of hitting up Blockbuster as soon as they opened to get the new releases. Didn't want to wait until the weekend where it was hit or miss on whether they were all rented.
Found my dad's porn mags in his closet and would check it out when I was home by myself. I always made sure I put it back exactly the way it was when I found it.
No greater tradition than going to the mall and spending hours in Aladdin's Castle while my mom was shopping. Even if I didn't have time to play I would glance in there to see if they got any new games.
I'll see your milk break and raise you an after lunch nap. Well not really a nap. Just had to put your head down on your arms on your desk and keep quiet for a little while. Of course someone would always fart to break the silence and get us laughing.
Also how about playing pencil break? Taking perfectly good pencils and taking turns trying to snap the other person's pencil. One of the few memories that I still have left from elementary school.
I'll add one more. How about having to write a letter, listen to the radio, use a phone with a cord, look up stuff in a dictionary, a set of encyclopedias, or go to the public library, or use folded paper maps to find your way instead of a smartphone?
My uncle worked for the local cable company and showed us a trick to get all the channels on the old slider box. You stuck a knife in the bottom edge of the box near the wire going into it and bend it back and the channel unscrambled. Then you just flip the box over and sit it where the knife stayed bent and in place.
Sucked being the human remote control. At least there was only a few channels to choose from to limit the amount of time flipping through those channels.
I spent many hours sitting at the kitchen table next to the window unit in the crappy little house we rented. Only air conditioning for the whole house. It did have this huge exhaust fan in the utility room that would pull air through the house when the windows were open and we didn't have the a/c on. The only heat it had was from a big vent in the hallway floor that heated the whole house.
All kindsa tapes...
I had a Tuesday morning tradition of hitting up Blockbuster as soon as they opened to get the new releases. Didn't want to wait until the weekend where it was hit or miss on whether they were all rented.
Found my dad's porn mags in his closet and would check it out when I was home by myself. I always made sure I put it back exactly the way it was when I found it.
No greater tradition than going to the mall and spending hours in Aladdin's Castle while my mom was shopping. Even if I didn't have time to play I would glance in there to see if they got any new games.
I'll see your milk break and raise you an after lunch nap. Well not really a nap. Just had to put your head down on your arms on your desk and keep quiet for a little while. Of course someone would always fart to break the silence and get us laughing.
Also how about playing pencil break? Taking perfectly good pencils and taking turns trying to snap the other person's pencil. One of the few memories that I still have left from elementary school.
I'll add one more. How about having to write a letter, listen to the radio, use a phone with a cord, look up stuff in a dictionary, a set of encyclopedias, or go to the public library, or use folded paper maps to find your way instead of a smartphone?
