ole heads will feel this ....

[Obsession8]

Originally Posted by OrigamiTulip

I turned 30 today, and reading this made me a little sad... I feel old.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

I "joined the club" last year (will be 31 in Sept.). Like everyone else, this post brought back memories, some fond (i.e. Saturday morning cartoons) and some not (i.e. moms listening in on calls, Sat. as clean up day, etc.).

These chilluns today just don't know...

[RBL]

I'm 30 and remember most of that.... times were good...

[TonyB06]

Originally Posted by SummerChild

LOLOLOL! And then when your Mom got home, she was ticked off talking about how she had been calling all day and somebody was on the phone so she kept getting a busy signal!!! Ha! That was hilarious in my household - of course we never laughed when she was complaining.

ETA: Of course, your Mom could call the operator and have her "cut in" on a call and then she would amazingly appear on the line with you and whoever you were talking to. Yes, it happened to me before. LOL. Those were some crazy times.

oh heck yeah, (SC, are our moms twins?) She'd come home and wonder "what fast-tail girl I was on the phone with" that she couldn't get through. My mom cut in on me more than once. ...which, by the way, is hayle on your telephone mack.


...by the way, I appreciate that I ROCK, and the kudos and all, but I got this via an e-mail, and just wanted to share it with my GP peeps. It's not an original creation.

[OOhsoflyDELTA#9]

Originally Posted by SummerChild

LOLOLOL! And then when your Mom got home, she was ticked off talking about how she had been calling all day and somebody was on the phone so she kept getting a busy signal!!! Ha! That was hilarious in my household - of course we never laughed when she was complaining.

ETA: Of course, your Mom could call the operator and have her "cut in" on a call and then she would amazingly appear on the line with you and whoever you were talking to. Yes, it happened to me before. LOL. Those were some crazy times.

OMG!!!! I had blocked this out cuz you KNEW your tail was in trouble if they had to do that!!!
How about being told that you had to stay in or out during the summer cause you was letting all the cool "air" out the house...
Lil OOhSo comes in a million times for a juice box or snack...man we had to keep the same cup ALL day and we had set times to come in and eat...not at our leisure...when I tell her about what I didn't have or how I grew up she asks why me and her Nana were so poor!!!! (lil spoiled so and so.. )

[Dionysus]

Originally Posted by OOhsoflyDELTA#9

How about being told that you had to stay in or out during the summer cause you was letting all the cool "air" out the house...)

YES!

[laylo]

Originally Posted by OOhsoflyDELTA#9

How about being told that you had to stay in or out during the summer cause you was letting all the cool "air" out the house...

Oh yeah. Once it was so serious that the adults locked us outside. Then it started raining and they still wouldn't let us in. So we snuck in through the window, and do you know grampa's belt came off? Just for trying to stay dry? I mean dang.

[TonyB06]

Originally Posted by laylo

Oh yeah. Once it was so serious that the adults locked us outside. Then it started raining and they still wouldn't let us in. So we snuck in through the window, and do you know grampa's belt came off? Just for trying to stay dry? I mean dang.

...naw, laylo, this sound like your folks was gettin' they love on and wanted yall out the way!!

[delph998]

...finishing up your chores on Fridays after school so you could sleep in and chill all day on Saturdays? But at 7:30a your parents would beat on the door and say, "FIND SOME CHORES TO DO!" Man, I hated that!!

[mulattogyrl]

Originally Posted by TonyB06

If you are 30 ....
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 musty-a** library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog and the friggin' duey-decimal system! And if you couldn’t find it you had to deal with the crusty attitude of that old a** librarian lady, who was like 68 years old and had that chain holdin' her glasses down like dem joints was going to fly off, yeah, that lady who felt like she was doing you a favor by being there.

WHY was I just talking about this with someone the other day!

There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter ... with a pen! and a stamp! 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!

I still write letters from time to time.

There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store! 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!

Me and my brother used to live in Vogel's record store, the one that was in Bizmarkie's video, LOL

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![

Sometimes I still get the urge to buy the TV Guide.

You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off you’re a** and walk over to the TV to change the channel. And don’t let your a** have insomnia, cause at 1 a.m. guess what --> TV went OFF! You got the Star Spangled Banner then America took its a** to bed!

YES! And I remember 'Love, American Style' used to come on like 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning and wake my azz up.

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-bastids!

Cartoons were so important back then, because you only had a certain time that they were on. Man, the good old days, LOL

[KAPital PHINUst]

Originally Posted by mulattogyrl

YES! And I remember 'Love, American Style' used to come on like 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning and wake my azz up.

Was your memory of this circa 1990-1991 perchance? Because I remember that show coming on Comedy Central at 6 a.m. while I was getting ready for school (my HS senior year, btw)

[unspokenone25]

[QUOTE=TonyB06;1419211]If you are 30 ....

HELLO!! I'm not 30 yet (got three years to go) but a lot of this I can relate to.

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 musty-a** library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog and the friggin' duey-decimal system! And if you couldn’t find it you had to deal with the crusty attitude of that old a** librarian lady, who was like 68 years old and had that chain holdin' her glasses down like dem joints was going to fly off, yeah, that lady who felt like she was doing you a favor by being there. Almost every day during my summers, if my butt wasn't in a summer camp, I was at that musty a** library. Good times. The books where you could pick your ending were the BEST!

There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter ... with a pen! and a stamp! 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! Didn't everyone feel special when you a letter from someone?! How special is it to get a freaking email?!

There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store! 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! Man, why do I still have my tapes that I used to tape over and over and over again. It used to be so POed when the DJ would talk at the end or the beginning. Also, I could spend hours in my room listening to old LPs. Great times.

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! I remember getting into trouble prank calling 911. One of the five whoopings I ever got in my lifetime.

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600 and thought it was the isht! With games like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics sucked a**! 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. Okay, I know I'm not 30 yet but does anyone remember the Strawberry Shortcake Atari game. Loved that mess!

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, well that was just too dayum bad! I remember I was too short to see some of the scenes from Purple Rain because of the wack a** seating. Yes, I was 5 years old watching Purple Rain...and what?!

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! We were to poor to have TV Guide. We used the newspapers' TV Guide. I swear I must have seen "Zapped" or "Porky's" a million times on HBO/Cinemax back in the 80's. You would swear that was the only movie they showed.

You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off you’re a** and walk over to the TV to change the channel. And don’t let your a** have insomnia, cause at 1 a.m. guess what --> TV went OFF! You got the Star Spangled Banner then America took its a** to bed! That's why I have to wear glasses right now. I learned at a very young age...sit in front of the TV!

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-bastids! They need to bring back Woody Woodpecker, Chili Willi and Droopy. "You know what...Now you've mad me mad!"

I would wake up at 7 every Saturday morning just so I could get my cartoons in before Momma started making us clean up the house. Pac_Man, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Bugs Bunny, CBS Story Hour, WWF Friends...now those were classics!


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. My sister and I burned the mess out of some popcorn. Ah...memories!

[jojapeach]

Originally Posted by TonyB06

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.

JiffyPop? Now, y'all had it easy! I have never had JiffyPop in my life. I can still put a pot on the stove, heat up the oil, and pray that the bag of popcorn kernels doesn't spill or leak so I can pop my corn over the stove. I hated standing over that stove, but I loved adding that butter or cheese flavoring in the packets.

Those were the days....

[Dionysus]

Originally Posted by jojapeach

JiffyPop? Now, y'all had it easy! I have never had JiffyPop in my life. I can still put a pot on the stove, heat up the oil, and pray that the bag of popcorn kernels doesn't spill or leak so I can pop my corn over the stove. I hated standing over that stove, but I loved adding that butter or cheese flavoring in the packets.

Those were the days....

There's nothing better than stove-top popped corn! My paternal grandma used to get a huge pot of popcorn and pour it into a brown paper grocery bag for me and my cousins to eat from, lol.

[btb87]

Originally Posted by jojapeach

JiffyPop? Now, y'all had it easy! I have never had JiffyPop in my life. I can still put a pot on the stove, heat up the oil, and pray that the bag of popcorn kernels doesn't spill or leak so I can pop my corn over the stove. Those were the days....

Girl, yes!

Originally Posted by Dionysus

There's nothing better than stove-top popped corn! My paternal grandma used to get a huge pot of popcorn and pour it into a brown paper grocery bag for me and my cousins to eat from, lol.

Had salt all over your hands and you were walking around licking salt off!

Anyway, I just got this today and this is similar to what TonyB posted at the beginning of this thread.
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My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in icepack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA's ystem.

We all took gym, not PE, and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Keds (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.

Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.

We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.

Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we got home.

I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?

We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?

[TonyB06]

...see that ain't the way I heard it. I heard that little Donny Reynolds was doing his tricks on the front stoop because he was trying to impress you so he could walk you to the local Walmart. ....but that's just what I heard.