Going the other way, the next time some 20 year old or millennial gives you any static; hammer then that they are a no nothing incapable of actually thinking because of technology.
I can state this with authority because the iphone came out in 2007, not even 10 years ago; yet it seems that the young people today know all. it’s impossible, they are spoon fed everything and eat it up like it’s biblical truth.
the young today have nothing on those of the previous generation and i’ll tske a boston or yes song 10 times out of ten over whatever somebody wrote for katy perry to sing.
When I was in 6th grade my family had 1 old car, a 4-party line and a single rotary telephone.
We walked to the Zenith B&W TV to change channels.
My sister and I didn’t get up from the dinner table without asking our parent’s permission.
Leaving a light on when leaving a room evoked a stern rebuke, but we didn’t lock the front door when we all went out of the house.
Summer vacations were spent at home because my father worked 1 main job & 2 part-time ones. My friends and I played baseball or rode our Sears bicycles around town. The police knew us all by name & were we lived. Our parents and us kids liked it that way. When we saw them in passing we addressed them as “officer” when we say them.
Even through High school the teachers were addressed by their last names. Women Teachers wore dresses (Down to the ankles) and the men wore suits.
I was in High School when the Ruskies launched the first orbital satellite: “Sputnik.”
Today when I talk about my growing up kids think I’m bat-shit crazy.
But I still maintain I had a better young life than today’s youngsters.
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And my kids have no idea who/what those are…
Going the other way, the next time some 20 year old or millennial gives you any static; hammer then that they are a no nothing incapable of actually thinking because of technology.
I can state this with authority because the iphone came out in 2007, not even 10 years ago; yet it seems that the young people today know all. it’s impossible, they are spoon fed everything and eat it up like it’s biblical truth.
the young today have nothing on those of the previous generation and i’ll tske a boston or yes song 10 times out of ten over whatever somebody wrote for katy perry to sing.
OK, the one about Lynyrd Skynyrd got to me. I remember when Van Zant and Gaines died. Yeeeesh.
When I was in 6th grade my family had 1 old car, a 4-party line and a single rotary telephone.
We walked to the Zenith B&W TV to change channels.
My sister and I didn’t get up from the dinner table without asking our parent’s permission.
Leaving a light on when leaving a room evoked a stern rebuke, but we didn’t lock the front door when we all went out of the house.
Summer vacations were spent at home because my father worked 1 main job & 2 part-time ones. My friends and I played baseball or rode our Sears bicycles around town. The police knew us all by name & were we lived. Our parents and us kids liked it that way. When we saw them in passing we addressed them as “officer” when we say them.
Even through High school the teachers were addressed by their last names. Women Teachers wore dresses (Down to the ankles) and the men wore suits.
I was in High School when the Ruskies launched the first orbital satellite: “Sputnik.”
Today when I talk about my growing up kids think I’m bat-shit crazy.
But I still maintain I had a better young life than today’s youngsters.
ok, I’m jealous of you.
1950s America was 20 years before my time but I wish that was when I grew up knowing the country today and what it most likely be.