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re: What was it like growing up without a smartphone?
Posted on 4/19/24 at 2:51 pm to goldenturbo
Posted on 4/19/24 at 2:51 pm to goldenturbo
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Posted on 4/19/24 at 2:51 pm to RT1941
All facts 
Playing outside prepared us for the real world better than an iPad and Tock Tick and all that other online shite. I'm in my 30's. The last generation that played outside everyday. That is me.
Playing outside prepared us for the real world better than an iPad and Tock Tick and all that other online shite. I'm in my 30's. The last generation that played outside everyday. That is me.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 2:59 pm to goldenturbo
Could you imagine now a days these snowflakes not showing up for work?
Back then you showed up. No excuses.
Back then you showed up. No excuses.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 3:11 pm to goldenturbo
Had to go to the library to look at cat pictures.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 3:17 pm to Bigfishchoupique
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Used to have to carry a pocket full of nickels, then dimes, then quarters. The cost of a pay phone always went up.
This post was edited on 4/19/24 at 3:19 pm
Posted on 4/19/24 at 3:18 pm to goldenturbo
Smartphone? Hell, I was overjoyed with a flushing toilet.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 3:21 pm to goldenturbo
I didn’t get a cell phone until 1993. Didn’t get a vcr until 83-84.
We were poor.
We were poor.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 3:22 pm to BabyTac
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Could you imagine now a days these snowflakes not showing up for work?
Back then you showed up. No excuses.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 3:23 pm to Tempratt
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We were poor.
We used to rent the movie... and the VCR on which to watch it.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 3:24 pm to goldenturbo
Never came inside until the street lights came on. Backyard ballgames were awesome.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 3:25 pm to Tempratt
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I didn’t get a cell phone until 1993.
That was a hell of a lot earlier than most people.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 3:25 pm to goldenturbo
Absolutely wonderful. As a kid you could leave home in the morning and not come back till dark and NOBODY could get hold of you by simply hitting a button on a phone.
To this day I don't like cellphones and the only reason I have one is that I do travel out of state and on many backroads when I take road trips on my motorcycle. Then giving up the land line made it more of an everyday thing but I honestly don't think I make more than 30-40 calls a month, if that.
To this day I don't like cellphones and the only reason I have one is that I do travel out of state and on many backroads when I take road trips on my motorcycle. Then giving up the land line made it more of an everyday thing but I honestly don't think I make more than 30-40 calls a month, if that.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 3:44 pm to High C
Some of the better road maps were the ones the approved map for a particular state that you'd get by stopping at that state's "travel center" at the first rest stop when you crossed into that state. 
Posted on 4/19/24 at 3:49 pm to goldenturbo
I do kind of miss planning the best route on road trips.
Parents probably knew the way, but they’d still let us feel like we were planning it out.
Parents probably knew the way, but they’d still let us feel like we were planning it out.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 3:52 pm to goldenturbo
it was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better - people actually talked to each other
Posted on 4/19/24 at 3:53 pm to goldenturbo
Quiet
Posted on 4/19/24 at 3:57 pm to goldenturbo
I wish so badly we could go back to the days of no smart phones and computers being something "fancy" that you couldn't even rely upon.
I had a great childhood where I, for the most part, just had a flip phone and then slide phone. I didn't need 100 apps on my phone, I didn't need the ability to text easily, my phone was mainly for making phone calls and that was totally fine with me.
I had a great childhood where I, for the most part, just had a flip phone and then slide phone. I didn't need 100 apps on my phone, I didn't need the ability to text easily, my phone was mainly for making phone calls and that was totally fine with me.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 4:09 pm to goldenturbo
Could do alot of shite I could deny later because no had any way to record it.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 6:24 pm to goldenturbo
Leaving on a road trip with the understanding that you could get stuck in BFE and had to manage the situation on your own. When “men” started relying on a smart phone to save them, test levels fell by half.
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