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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/12/2006 6:20:26 PM

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how about when the kid at the store could actually count back your change instead of handing it to you in a lump like they do now after looking at the readout on the cash register. Dont throw them off by giving them change on top of what you owe to round it off so you get back a dollar to avoid all the change. that only will put them in a frenzy and they have to call a manager to deal wth it.

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/12/2006 6:32:01 PM

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And if they have to add up the sale, figure tax(even w/ copy of the table) get a total and figure your change..... FORGET IT! Close the store 'til the cash register is fixed.

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/12/2006 7:55:22 PM

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/12/2006 7:58:54 PM

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I am laughing so hard I am crying.... damn you!!!!!!!!!!

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/12/2006 8:28:38 PM

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Remember when you went on a long trip, and you talked, played the license plate game, read a book, or just looked at the scenery out the car window?

No in-dash dvd players back then!

or

Remember when there were only the network channels and maybe a couple of local ones on the air? No days of 200+ channels of nothing to surf. No remote control. In fact, if you wanted to surf, you had to get up and walk to the tv and change the channels yourself.

or

Remember when you actually dialed a number on the phone. No push buttons. No memory.

Love this thread!

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/12/2006 9:09:43 PM

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Remember when you went on a long trip, and you talked, played the license plate game, read a book, or just looked at the scenery out the car window?

No in-dash dvd players back then!

I remember laying in the back window... pumping arm hard to get 18 wheelers to blow their horns and scare the shit outta my dad... and having him yell.. knock that shit off.. only to laugh and know to expect the next one... but act like he didn't....

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/12/2006 9:42:44 PM

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OMG lol we did that too :) my poor dad - nothing like a station wagon full of kids (and a dog if we were going to the beach) and a big ol' semi blarring at him right behind him.

No wonder he has no hair.

i remember getting my first transistor radio :)

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/13/2006 4:11:19 AM

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I remember laying in the back window... pumping arm hard to get 18 wheelers to blow their horns and scare the shit outta my dad... and having him yell.. knock that shit off.. only to laugh and know to expect the next one... but act like he didn't....

lol...I remember doing that too!

Another memory I have is of full service gas stations. Remember when your parents would go to the gas station, and the attendants there would fill your car with gas, clean the windshield, and check the oil?

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/13/2006 4:22:03 AM

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i remember getting my first transistor radio :)

Me, too. Mine was a bright 70's shade of red!

I remember when I got my first stereo, and I thought the coolest thing was being able to tape songs off the radio. Now a kid can just go to Itunes or Napster and get most of the hottest songs.

Before VCRs were owned by most people, I remember putting my cassette recorder by the speaker of the television and taping the audio of a tv show I was watching--mainly Saturday Night Live with the original cast of Belushi, Ackroyd, etc. Loved staying up for that on the weekend!

I don't think a lot of younger people today realize that back in the day, if you missed a tv show, that was it. No download on Itunes or setting your VCR or DVR. You just had to hope that you would catch it in reruns.

Same thing with movies. You would go see a movie several times because who knew how long it would take to get to tv. I remember seeing stuff like Star Wars, Grease, etc, multiple times for that reason.

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/13/2006 8:38:10 AM

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Same thing with movies. You would go see a movie several times because who knew how long it would take to get to tv. I remember seeing stuff like Star Wars, Grease, etc, multiple times for that reason.

omg Grease. i think i had a "Grease" fetish when i was a kid. i know every lyric to every song on that sound track. To this day if the movie is on, i have to stop what i'm doing (well, depending what it is) and watch it. Danny Zuko was my first Master...LOL

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/13/2006 8:51:32 AM

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Same thing with movies. You would go see a movie several times because who knew how long it would take to get to tv. I remember seeing stuff like Star Wars, Grease, etc, multiple times for that reason.

omg Grease. i think i had a "Grease" fetish when i was a kid. i know every lyric to every song on that sound track. To this day if the movie is on, i have to stop what i'm doing (well, depending what it is) and watch it. Danny Zuko was my first Master...LOL

ROFLMAO.... I don't know.. I knew every song as well... every dance step.... OMFG.... but I still prefered... Seven Brides for Seven Brothers... or Paint Your Wagon when it came to musical and still do! Saved for ever on CD for music and DVD for viewing... Damn I miss the old days of my chidlhood more and more now.... (But gotta thank my mom for sending me this anyways... she's a hoot!!!)

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/13/2006 8:54:58 AM

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ROFLMAO.... I don't know.. I knew every song as well... every dance step.... OMFG.... but I still prefered... Seven Brides for Seven Brothers... or Paint Your Wagon when it came to musical and still do! Saved for ever on CD for music and DVD for viewing... Damn I miss the old days of my chidlhood more and more now.... (But gotta thank my mom for sending me this anyways... she's a hoot!!!)

LOL true my favorite is Paint Your Wagon and Clint Eastwood singing!!! (Gawd i loved Lee Marvin) ROFL you brought back a flood of memories with that one.

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/13/2006 9:03:58 AM

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LMAO angelic.. you just game me a thought for a new thread in random and stupidy area... LOL...

Gotta love the motivation on here....

Oh and more reminder....... how many remember... (and this is an oldie)

When the Air was clean... and Sex was Dirty.... LOL

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/13/2006 10:34:56 AM

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My cousin (14 years old at the time) was visiting me. He locked himself out of the house while I was at work. He called me from the neighbor's house. I asked why he didn't call from the phone in my garage, he said he didn't know how to make it work...it was a rotary phone, and he'd never seen one before.

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/13/2006 11:06:15 AM

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My cousin (14 years old at the time) was visiting me. He locked himself out of the house while I was at work. He called me from the neighbor's house. I asked why he didn't call from the phone in my garage, he said he didn't know how to make it work...it was a rotary phone, and he'd never seen one before.

OMG.... Ma'am...

that's damn near as bad as other poster who said child didn't know what an LP was... or the Muppets... lmao

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/13/2006 1:09:55 PM

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I remember it had to find an over weight kid back in the day.. from sun up till sun down.. always on the Go.. MOM?,,, what do you mean I have to come in now?...LOL

And our minds were put to good use with our imaginations. It's how we learned to be who and what we are today....<smiles>

Those were the days. Bike all around town til dark....playing stick ball in the middle of the street......stoop ball with our spalding....walking barefoot in the local creek looking for tadpoles and frogs.....sneaking into the golf course to sled in the winter.....

5 television stations unless you had that funny looking antennae and if you did then you could watch the spanish station........rabbit ears......phones with cords.....8 tracks......TV consoles that looked like coffins.....

Captain Kangaroo.....Farmer Brown cartoons.....

Those were the days.

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/13/2006 5:21:29 PM

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Remember when tv stations would actually go off the air at night?

I would fall asleep sometimes watching tv and would wake up around midnight or so, hearing the Star Spangled Banner and an announcer say,"Channel ___ has finished its broadcast day!"

Now days, every station is on 24/7 with tons of crazy late night infomercials.

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/13/2006 5:29:36 PM

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Oh and Lord knows.. if the president had something to say!... you was screwed! There was no changing channels to see anything but him. It was him and no damn body else. Off button was only other option.

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/13/2006 10:27:58 PM

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nevermind growing up 30 years ago, lol, just live in a small rural town. we still have an outhouse, and use it frequently (ie: at christmas, cause the damn toilet decided to break), we don't have internet, we don't have cable (good thing global and CTV show the good shows, cause thats all we get). we still have a rotary phone, and up until a few years ago, we even had a party line. i so love living in a city now that i moved out on my own.

kids DO have it too damn easy....and are way over protected. plastic coated swing chains, and safety nets under jungle gyms...wtf? we used to play in the barn loft, and swing off ropes into piles of hay bales. and go fourwheeling with no helmets, and 3 of us on the back, my uncle driving,and jonathan in the basket on the front....down the train tracks to play in the park in cannington. the best was riding around in the very back of my grandparents suburban....no belts, not even any seats...just a few pillows and a carpeted floor, LOL.

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RE: ~~Wanna Feel Old~~ - 3/13/2006 11:20:16 PM

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ahhhhhhhhhh the good ole days of growing up before the 80's...... LOL

I'm sure some have seen this thread.. i'm gonna bring it back outta my archives.. sense we're taking a toll down memory lane here...

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank
while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and
didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright
colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and
when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks
we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special
treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO
ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with
sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we
were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O. K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then
ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After
running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at
all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround
sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet
chatrooms..........

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were
no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live
in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,

made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told
it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door
or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who
didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard
of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem
solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to
grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our
lives for our own good.

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