That's damn funny. But here's the thing. I remember having a microwave very
early on in the 80s. It had one of those knobs on it. My dad also had those
really old Tandy computers and a five-meg hard drive back in the way early
80s. I remember there was a light switch on the wall that lead down to the
basement where my dad had his computer and that switch was connected to the
power down there. Well my mommy raised me to always turn off the lights. So
well, I did. Boy was he mad when all of a sudden, the power was just, uh,
gone when he was working.
When I was little, I had a stereo with a turntable, an eight track, and a
cassette deck. And I could record on the eight tracks and I found this very
amusing to record over stuff. We had these old Motorola phones where the
part of it that found the channels would sit in the trunk of your car and
you had to use these switches in the phone up front in order to find
channels to use on whatever network thing it was. When you picked up the
handset, you had to flip these switches up and down and wait to hear a voice
say things like, "Detroit, Detroit, Detroit." I will have to ask my dad what
that thing was called.
We have video from when I was six, in 1981 and my dad tells me that the
quality of the video from those old camcorders was really grainy back then.
Amy and I were recently talking about how much we loved Saturday morning
cartoons on ABC and USA. I remember when Nicalodion played cool stuff Like
Pinwheel and Bell and Sebastian. God I loved those damn shows! That was back
in the days of, "You Can't Do That on Television." Then, promptly at 8 PM,
Nicolodian was off the air.
I remember when Friday night prime time TV meant watching Benson and
Webster! And Tuesday night prime time TV meant watching Happy Days and
Three's
Company.
I remember calling the Joke of the Day 1 (976) numbers and at Christmas
time, calling Santa every morning. I vaguely remember when calling the time
meant calling something with GR, in it.
I had one of those cool medal lunch boxes with the little medal ring thing
you swung down over your stuff to keep it from moving.
You can have some fun and go down old 80s memory lanes by visiting the
following site.
http://www.inthe80s.com/
And now, I will resume my transcription and pull out the few gray hairs that
have shown themselves over the past few months. I will also cry at how old I
now officially feel. And I'm, only, thirty, two! AAAAH!
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If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their
tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were
growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school
every morning .... uphill
BOTH ways .. yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was
no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on
kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that...
I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look
around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy!
I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how
good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we
wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and
look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
There was no email! ! We had to actually write somebody a
letter .. with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across
the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a
week to get there!
There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you
had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and
the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the
phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone
rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your
mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent,
you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances,
mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with
high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games
like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass!
Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!
And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen
forever!
And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder
and faster and faster until you died! . Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium
seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some
old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you
were just screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15
channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You
had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off
your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was
no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday
Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for
cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we
had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire ... imagine that!
If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid JiffyPop thing and
shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too
easy. You're spoiled.
You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970's or 80's
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