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Things that a kid turning 18 this year has never had to do

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May 24, 2017, 12:51 PM
Rightwire
Things that a kid turning 18 this year has never had to do
What are the things that you had to do as a kid, but today's 18 year old never had to do as a necessary part of life. I'll start the list

- Choose between one of 3 or 4 channels
- Adjust the antenna once the channel was selected
- Wait for the TV to warm up
- Carry 2 dimes to make an emergency phone call
- Use a phone book to find someone's phone number
- Go to an arcade to play a video game
- Use a card catalog to find a book in a library
- Use an encyclopedia to research a topic

continue......



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May 24, 2017, 12:53 PM
cruiser68
Wow.

Fill up the car with the change in the back seat.
Use a rotary dial phone
Watch only what your parents were watching because there was only 1 television.
Waiting for the "party line" to become available so you could make a phone call
May 24, 2017, 12:53 PM
Orguss
Write a letter.


"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
May 24, 2017, 12:55 PM
Chowser
Get a job


Not minority enough!
May 24, 2017, 12:56 PM
PeteF
Get up to change the channel on the Tv.
May 24, 2017, 12:57 PM
Ryanp225
Be grateful for the opportunity to earn your own money.
May 24, 2017, 12:58 PM
cmr076
- call the operator
- develop film (or wait for film to be developed to see the pictures taken)
- dial up (or no internet)
- Video Rental stores
- rewind cassette
tapes
- oregon trail to learn to type
- trying to fix CD's with toothpaste


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May 24, 2017, 01:01 PM
lkdr1989
Return the VCR to the video rental store Big Grin



...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV

"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 NASV
May 24, 2017, 01:01 PM
Old Seadog
Register for the draft.
May 24, 2017, 01:02 PM
2Adefender
quote:
Originally posted by Orguss:
Write a letter.


Let alone a thank you note.


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May 24, 2017, 01:09 PM
BurtonRW
Pick someone up at the airport - at the gate.

-Rob



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May 24, 2017, 01:12 PM
Ronin1069
quote:
Originally posted by BurtonRW:
Pick someone up at the airport - at the gate.

-Rob


Very good one. I still remember coming home from leave (after being gone a year) and having my whole family waiting for me as I got off of the airplane! (1990)

To add - I have to believe that the airlines actually like that new rule. I have to wonder how many people snuck onto airplanes using someone else's ticket back then. At least now, anyone past security must be a ticketed passenger.


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May 24, 2017, 01:17 PM
jhe888
Walk to school. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways.



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May 24, 2017, 01:18 PM
lkdr1989
and don't forget the wolves chasing you Big Grin

quote:
Originally posted by jhe888:
Walk to school. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways.




...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV

"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 NASV
May 24, 2017, 01:26 PM
mcrimm
Say "Yes Sir" or "Yes Ma'am"
Learn how to tune up a car
Use vise-grips to change channels
Listen to a ball game on the radio


I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown
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When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham
May 24, 2017, 01:27 PM
slyguy
Use a type writer to make a resume.

Learn to write cursive.

Go without Google, Facetime, Facebook, etc. (Use an encyclopedia, talk to someone in person.)

Experience war. (assuming you live in the US)
May 24, 2017, 01:27 PM
Holger Danske
quote:
Originally posted by Old Seadog:
Register for the draft.


Well, to be fair, 18-year-old males are required to register with Selective Service.


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May 24, 2017, 01:29 PM
RAMIUS
Make soup.
May 24, 2017, 01:38 PM
V-Tail
quote:
Originally posted by jhe888:
Walk to school. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways.
With barbed wire wrapped around your bare feet for traction on the ice.


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May 24, 2017, 01:38 PM
tatortodd
Use DOS
Find stuff on the Internet without a browser (e.g. Archie search)
Live in a world without affirmative action or political correctness


Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity

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