For the "30-something" crowd... the old farts can look too

[QC]

Re: For the "30-something" crowd... the old farts can look too

He!! I was young when this thread started

Yeah, but you still didn't make the young fart cut according to the title

 

[Limited-Time]

Re: For the "30-something" crowd... the old farts can look too

Yeah, but you still didn't make the young fart cut according to the title

Not even close :redface::redface: That said, these are the good old days.

 

[skargo]

Re: For the "30-something" crowd... the old farts can look too

I don't know about easy. Not to get all political but we are handing our kids a country in far worse shape than we inheritied.

Amen, every "bad" generation was raised by the previous generation. Think about that for awhile

I see every generation thinks the succeeding one is worse than them

I am 43 and I can admit my generation has done a TERRIBLE job(most, not all of course) "raising" their kids. Hell, my wife and I originally wanted to have children, but we evaluated ourselves and our wants and needs, and the condition of society and decided not to. I have siblings with kids who can carry on the name. I love my nieces and nephews and god kids. I fully intend to leave each and every one of them at least one piece of property, but if I don't, I won't feel like I failed.
Besides, I see MANY people out there who should have never become parents, so I'm helping offset them.
Plus, how many here want to see mini me's terrorizing the internet in the future?

 

[PiratePast40]

Re: For the "30-something" crowd... the old farts can look too

I bought my first hand-held electronic calculator in 1973. Cost me $99.00! Heck, I could have bought a new car for the price of less than 2 dozen of them.<br /><br />Jinx

Wow - did the same thing in 1973. But we still has to use slide rules for exams.

 

[Andy in NY]

Re: For the "30-something" crowd... the old farts can look too

I always promised myself that i wouldnt be like my parents, but now that i have kids (and step kids) of my own i found myself thinking what is wrong with them... my 14 yr old step daughter just wants to watch tv all day. saturday i told her she was going to do things outside because it was nice... and the tv wasnt going to get turned on before 6pm.


she cried.


they **** and moan about yard work, chores, then freak out when we tell them they cant do something.

we werent allowed to even so much as touch the remote in our house growing up except for saturday morning between 7 and 10. in my house now its a daily search for the remote because they hide it from each other so the other cant get to it.

 

[rbh]

Re: For the "30-something" crowd... the old farts can look too

He!! I was young when this thread started.

+1 on that one, but is'nt 40 the new 30, or is that something the girls were my wife works made up.????

 

[mphy98]

Re: For the "30-something" crowd... the old farts can look too

cable? what was that? Our phone line, and we had only one phone in the house had a cord and you had to stand next to the phone and talk. A computer was a slide rule. (how many of you know what that is?) My dad had a home building business and his "calculator" was a manual adding and subtracting machine that was run by hand. In 1970 he bought one of the first copy machines in the area. Someone I know made a lot of money selling fake ID's to drink with at the time . All cars except the Eldorado and Toronado were rear wheel drive... and we liked it that way. Better for racing. Air travel was for the very rich. Vacations were local and were for the family. Probably visiting family. I could go on but I passed thirty years ago.

 

[MrsBoatinOkie]

Re: For the "30-something" crowd... the old farts can look too

I had a bike when I was a kid, got my first car when I earned enough to buy it. Had to "Check in" with either a phone call or come home every 30 mins when i was out until i was 18. (military family). Yeah kids these days are punks.... cell phone at 12, car at 16, paid college even tho all they do is party and smoke weed.

I was about to add a post about cell phones!! When I was 16 I ran out of gas on the way to school. Luckily I had spare change "just in case" I needed to use a pay phone. (Now thats something you don't see much of anymore either). Had to walk several blocks to call the parental units to help.

 

[The_Kid]

Re: For the "30-something" crowd... the old farts can look too

Yeah, well how many 8 tracks do you have?... ...JK

I've still got about 25 to 30 of them. I can pop them in my 1960 MGA to listen, or I can fire up my 8 track recorder, and make a new one.

I'm one of the old farts. I remember cruising down the road listening to music on 4 track tapes. Watching black and white TV shows at my aunts house on her "round" screen TV. Your telephone was on a party line so you had to wait until one of the neighbors finished their call before you could make one. No air conditioning, so if it was real hot and muggy, everyone would grab a pillow and a sheet and go sleep on the front lawn