I was thinking the other day about all the stuff that my kids will never experience, play with, watch or enjoy.
Here is my list:
- A dial phone. Shoot, I remember a two party phone. If you have to ask you were either rich or much too young to remember.
- A typewriter. My mom had a real typewriter. I typed my entire Eagle Scout Report on that thing. My son is proficient at MS Word at age 8.
- A phonebooth. A real phonebooth with a door and a seat. Remember those?
- How about Penny candy at the corner store. Or finding pop bottles in the ditch to cash in for a dime to buy the penny candy.
- Mr. Rogers. Need I say more. iCarly and the Suite Life with Zach and Cody are no substitute.
- MerryGoRounds and Teeter Totters on the playground. They have been outlawed.
- Jarts. Yard Darts. Come one. I never got hurt with those things.
- Marbles for keeps, they now play games in Japanese on cards for keeps. No aggies or shooters.
- VHS Players. My kids have already forgotten them
- Cassettes
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1 Jeri // Apr 6, 2009 at 9:07 am
JARTS! It wasn’t a family get together unless all the grown-up were completely lit and all the kids were dodging jarts. My dad hit my uncle in the foot with a jart from 20 feet. Not bad for a dude that had to hold on to my mom to get to the bathroom. Aaahhhhh…memories! Don’t forget 8 track tapes. And t.v. without remotes! The insanity!
2 iDude // Jul 8, 2009 at 4:51 pm
I found a box full of my old cassettes from the 80′s and early 90′s and plan on testing them in my car, which still has a cassette player, even though it’s a 2002 model ford. (it has a 6 disk CD changer as well)…
Heck even CDs are getting antiquated now w/ iPods and other MP3 players.
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