Thread: Kid's........not even a clue !!

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And no meth or crackheads to deal with

Holy crap - I gotta be old then.
If I was calling someone on the phone, I had to crank the darn thing then tell Mabel, the operator who I wanted to talk to - and it was a 4 to 12 party line. You had to count rings to know if it was for you.

Television(if you or a friend had one) - the test pattern came on at 5:00Pm just before Howdy Doody. You watched John Cameron Swayze and the Camel New, just before Milton Berle

If you wanted to go somewhere, you did it by Shank's Mare, took a bus or waited for dad to get home from work at 5:00

You actually went outside and played with your friends. There are dozens of kids in my neighborhood - but the only time I see them is at the school bus stop.

Kids used to walk to school - with 2 miles or out in the country being the cut off for a bus.

You actually went to Saturday movie matinées - expensive @ 7cents for under age 10 and a dime for over.

Sex - not a chance. You got MARRIED and had 2.4 kids

Vacations - dad loaded up the car and you all went off to see grandma for 2 weeks in the summer.

Computers - well there was an IBM Eniac(sp) that filled a room or keypunch systems for accounting.

You actually celebrated holidays, not these BS "Hallmark Holidays" which have become synonymous with greed.

Yep - I AM an OF. And yes, and IMHO, life was a lot less complicated