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

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Originally Posted by 35WINDOW

Whats a "Computer?"

Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer

Craig - I KNOW you were born AFTER 1946, when the ENIAC was first shown to the world

And don't forget..........If you wanted $$$$$$$ you worked for it!!

Got my first job (in a hardware store) working after school and Saturday when I was thirteen.

Made twenty five cents an hour. First week pay after taxes...$4.64.

That was the end of my allowance, I earned every dime I've spent from that day til now.

Mowed lawns, pumped gas, worked as a soda jerk (no smarta-- remarks please) and just about everything else to support my car "habit".

Those were the good old days.

Kids today have evrything handed to them and act like their getting screwed!!

Originally Posted by Geezer2

And don't forget..........If you wanted $$$$$$$ you worked for it!!

Got my first job (in a hardware store) working after school and Saturday when I was thirteen.

Made twenty five cents an hour. First week pay after taxes...$4.64.

That was the end of my allowance, I earned every dime I've spent from that day til now.

Mowed lawns, pumped gas, worked as a soda jerk (no smarta-- remarks please) and just about everything else to support my car "habit".

Those were the good old days.

Kids today have evrything handed to them and act like their getting screwed!!

I had a kid that came by the shop and wanted a job.
I would guess he was about 16.
The kid had about three ear rings in one ear and two ear rings in the other along with stud in his nose.
I asked him what he knew about cars,engines,hot-rodding,he said not a thing.
The funny thing is he wanted $10 an hour to clean the shop for me.
The first job I had in a shop pushing a broom was $2.50 an hour cash.

I'm 33, and I find myself sounding like an oldster more and more everyday. Just last week, I was bitchin' about the high price of gas and cigarettes to my friend's 15 year old son.
"When I was your age, cigarettes were a buck a pack, and gas was 79 cents a gallon!" I said.
Now, I didn't walk uphill both ways to school while carrying my little sister on my back or anything, but I did have a choice to walk four blocks to school or four blocks to the bus stop. Nowadays, the bus stops right in front of the house. What's up with that? And they wonder why kids are overweight.
Another thing that bothers me is that kids just lounge around the house all the time. They'll tell me, "there's nothing to do around here," and when I suggest that they go ride their bike or something, they look at me as if to say - 'why in the world would I do that?'
And here I am now making a list of things that annoy me about youngsters...Man, I feel old.