Growing up without a cell phone!! :D:

[Micheal_R]

If you are 30, or older, you might 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... Barefoot... BOTH ways

 

[Rob/Windsor Ont.]

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[George-CT]

carries one while on the horses or traveling but I never do. Me and phones are not best of friends..... The few times in the last 2 years I'm almost got taken has been women talking on the phone not paying attention. Geo

 

[Bayrat76]

To do channel surfing it wasn't hard we only had two channels, when i was in 5th grade we got ABC, that was big stuff. So any time we where at the ranch on Saturday nites my grandfather would watch Hee Haa. Me, my cousin, and uncle would take off and go rabbit hunting, or frog hunting, instead of watching TV.

 

[WillyP]

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[Kelley (Texas)]

surviving out in the brush country. Times have really changed. We built our own tree houses, made our own slingshots, kites, rubber guns, and the old creek was our swimming pool. The easiest way to pick a fight was to tell someone that they had an ugly dog. High school football was more important than the NFL, and everyone played baseball. There were no cell phones, or any of this other fancy electronics. We lived in the best of times. Mike, you post brought back some pleasant memories. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Micheal_R]

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[Micheal_R]

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[Micheal_R]

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[George-CT]

cell phone growing up. At string tied in a not at the end to 2 soup cans... As you talked up it the sound would travel along the string. Really high tech stuff. You just made do with what was available..... stomping soda or beer cans on your feet and clomping around on the road was always a big hit. Or close pin a card to your bike and ride around the neighbor hood.... Summer was blue shell crab catching time...We could catch a bushel a day if we worked at it and tides were right. We would sell some on the way home and eat the rest... Much simpler time... never worried about someone bothering us except a foot in the rear if you did something wrong.
sure you could go tell dad he wacked ya, then it was dads turn to make it stick in your mind......

George-CT

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

It did not take much to keep us busy having fun. One thing that we cherished was getting our hands on an old apple or orange wooden crate...we made all types of good things from them. We used our imagination and found ways to have fun...we were happy and appreciated what we had. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Wayne in BC]

has it's story.

Old Og to young Mog.......

Ya know kid, you got it easy! When i was your age we had to kill a Mammoth with rocks dropped off a cliff or hand spears, i tell ya, lotsa guys got busted up! None of these fancy new spear chuckers or bow and arrow things! We also had to camp next to the sucker to eat it, none of these new wheel carts, oh and dragging your wimmen by the hair? That's what they got ankles for.......

 

[Wayne in BC]

pole vaulting over anything handy. I got lucky once in the late 50's and acquired a 12 foot aluminum pole off a TV mast, mighty happy about that because it was way lighter and strong. Bad idea to try it on the edge of a creek to get across though. Sunk in the mud enough to hang me in mid air and drop me on my back in a very recently thawed stream of water 10 feet wide and two feet deep

 

[Royal]

Lemme see now. The joke goes, "Do you know why the cave man used to drag the wimmins around by the hair?" I don't guess I can tell the punch line here but I will private message it to you Wayner

 

[Micheal_R]

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[Micheal_R]

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