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Originally Posted by they_screwed_me_too
(Post 355481)
LMFAO not heard that for YEARS !!:peace:
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Must be showing my age again...
When I grew up we did not have cable TV, we had no devices to watch movies at home and only big businesses had computers.
There were no video games. We DID have a V-Chip back then, only we called it Mom.
We did not have cell phones, playdates or structured 24/7 activities. We had the outside. We would meet up with our friends in the morning and go out and play until we had to be home, usually just before dark.
We had winners and losers back then. Somehow, we were able to hold on to our self-esteem as we learned that not everybody is good at everything. Everyone has different talents. If we sucked at baseball, they told us so, instead of giving everyone an award.
We were expected to tell the truth. If we lied, we ran the risk of being spanked. When the neighbors saw this, they applauded the adults for being responsible, instead of calling the police to report child abuse.
We knew that sex existed, but had only a vague notion of what it was - we certainly didn't know the details. Our only source of porn was if we were able to find our Dad's stack of Playboys. We didn't exactly understand what we were looking at, although we pretended that we did.
If we wanted to know something, we had to ask someone else who knew about it, or else go to a place called a library. Libraries had a lot of shelves with these paper things on them called books. They contained the knowledge that we were seeking. They would even let us borrow some of these books to take home and read.
Something kind of like a book was left at the door every morning, but it was a little different. It was called a newspaper, and it was how we found out what was going on in the world. Mom used it to find out what was new or on sale at the local stores.
We had restaurants, even some of those that everyone knows of today, like McDonald's. But we only went once in a while, not every day. Back then, Mom prepared meals for the family which included these things called fruits and vegetables. I don't think that things like a triple bacon cheeseburger with extra mayo, cheddar and bacon fries and fried cheese existed - although maybe they did somewhere else - who knows?
Back then, a 12 year old that weighed 200 lbs was considered unusual, and they were taken to doctors by their concerned parents. Nobody ever heard of a lawsuit being filed against McDonald's for serving their tasty food. Back then, the doctors told their parents to avoid the McDonald's - and yet somehow the doctors didn't get sued either. I think that parents just didn't understand our legal system.
We didn't have the computers, 500 channels and video games, but we did have some neat games that we played. Some of the ones I remember were baseball, basketball, hide and seek, kick the can, hopscotch, tag and others. We were tired after being outside all day playing.
Nobody had a television bigger than 26". We only had maybe 5 or 6 channels. Only doctors or other important people had pagers. Someone in the family usually had to cook food if we wanted to eat.
Can you imagine??? I still cannot believe that me and my friends were able to deal with all of these terrible, unspeakable hardships. Yet somehow, we survived...
