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When I was your age....

It's funny because I ran across this article about the gadgets kids have these days and the things they will not know existed....or even how they worked. A month or so ago I say to Josh..."Kids these days will never know what watching a TV with antennas will be like or how to rewind a cassette tape." Part of my childhood we had a TV we turned on with a set of pliers and would have to adjust the antennas depending on what channel we were watching out of the 5 we had. Caller ID didn't exist. Walkmans were huge!! You researched homework in an encyclopedia. You recorded shows on a VHS. There was actually a time before "reality TV". You never had the want or need to know what your friends were doing every minute of their day. You actually had to remember someones phone number. Neat Handwriting. Swimming pools with diving boards. Waiting for the #1 hit in the movies to make it to TV. Hershey bars in silver wrappers. Having to manually unlock car doors. Playing outside until dinner time. Tuning a radio to find your favorite station. Using a road atlas. Phone books. Shopping during normal business hours...and only Monday thru Saturday. Developing your film and waiting days to get your pictures.

These are only a few things I can remember ....that won't ever be the same again. It really makes me understand better when my dad would tell me about how things have changed since he was a kid and now that I have a son I'm amazed at the things that have changed and the things he will never know existed. The things that he will one day make fun of me for..."you had to rewind a what to listen to music?.....you had to put a big tape in a what to record your show?"...i can hear it now!! And to that I will reply..."when I was your age..."

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Christy said…
Z and I have had alot of "When I was your age" moments. The most memorable one was when we were in someone's garage helping them move - and there was a box of records there. I picked one case up to look at it and showed him the picture (it was Grease) and I told him I used to have that record. I pulled it out of the case and showed it to him. He looked up at me with big eyes and a look of wonder and said, "That must have been a REALLY BIG cd player!" I had to explain...
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