Kids these days will never know….

[CDGator]

 

[CDGator]

 

[CDGator]

Schools were my customer during this time and we sold a lot replacement mice because the kids would steal the ball out of them!

 

[Back Alley Gator]

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Replace that with a VCR that won't open because the bootleg porno cassette you borrowed from your buddy got jammed.

 

[Back Alley Gator]

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I'd forgotten all about those damn things....lol

 

[CDGator]

Having to go to a library to do actual research for a paper.

 

[jeeping8r]

How to tell time on a clock with a face
Write/read cursive
Address book
Recipe book
waiting for that one song you love to come on the radio

My 21 year old granddaughter can't read or write cursive. We're going to change that.

 

[Treebeard]

Not exactly tech, but being able to see the Milky Way galaxy at night.

 

[gingerlover]

Calling a radio station to request a song. Calling the Moviefone to get showtimes. I can still hear the voice of the Robocall every time I look up movies. Welcome the movie phone brought to you by 99X

 

[CDGator]

Calling a radio station to request a song. Calling the Moviefone to get showtimes. I can still hear the voice of the Robocall every time I look up movies. Welcome the movie phone brought to you by 99X

Calling in your friend’s birthday to the radio station and then waiting for them to say their name.

 

[TLB]

Replace that with a VCR that won't open because the bootleg porno cassette you borrowed from your buddy got jammed.

Or returning your video tape rental to the store, then getting home to realize you still have their tape...and turned in one of your prized porno tapes. :\

 

[CDGator]

Ironing and dry cleaners

Our kids will never know about either.

 

[soflagator]

My 21 year old granddaughter can't read or write cursive. We're going to change that.

Like you’re going to teach her, or are planning to kick her out of the family?

 

[itsgr82bag8r]

Yes... The old "sleep over flim flam"... A asks to stay at B's, B asks to stay at A's, both A and B spend night at "forbidden C's house cuz his single mom is working the night shift"... (alternate is single mom C is home, likely drunk in bed, so we enter at 2 am by climbing on roof and go in through dormer window)

This “example” sounds amazingly detailed…..

 

[Detroitgator]

This “example” sounds amazingly detailed…..

In this "example," "C" MIGHT be a guy that "A" joined the Army with in 1985, went through OSUT together, both went to Fulda together, then lost touch with after "C" went to Ft Bliss in 1988, then ran into each other again in Afghanistan in 2008 when C was training Afghan Special Forces and A was doing the thing he does. For purposes of this "example," "A, B, and C" are friends to this day.

Here's another "example" that I've used before purely as an "example" of something kids today will never experience: "A, B, and C" building a pipe bomb and using the timer from the board game "Run Yourself Ragged" as the timer (putting metal contacts on the timer to close the circuit, in this "example," one would have 60 seconds to flee by bike) and blowing up a tree in a school yard. Allegedly, life in the 70's-80's was a fun time for kids... for example...

 

[Detroitgator]

Here's another one.... ANYTHING and EVERYTHING we did back then with firecrackers and fireworks... too many stupid things to possibly list.

 

[Nalt]

Ironing and dry cleaners

Our kids will never know about either.

Abel (18 y/o) irons some of his clothes himself. Has for a couple of years.

 

[CDGator]

Abel (18 y/o) irons some of his clothes himself. Has for a couple of years.

Lil Seedy does too occasionally but uses the refresh cycle (with water) on the dryer as an alternative.

 

[Seedy]

Metallic mint green? And the tires. Michelin model XGV, size 75-R-14, by chance?

 

[Detroitgator]

Ironing and dry cleaners

Our kids will never know about either.

Actually, much like trying to pass "old people music" on to the next generation, all three of our kids know how to/and do iron (and they have little steamers that are handy as hell) and use the dry cleaners...

Here is what they (and kids today) do NOT know and never will... the actual toxic waste smell (but oddly a good memory) of the corner dry cleaners we had as kids. Now it's almost all drop off local, then sent to "wherever they go." To this day, the smell of whatever those chemicals were is still strong in my memory.