A Blast From The Past

Growing up we always heard on tv and from our peers... "Back when I was young we didn't have..... we couldn't do that without..." Now that I am 29 years old I find myself doing almost the same thing. But I ad in ' How did we make it in the past without this item?" I have had this conversation a few times with a couple people. It is crazy the way life advances so much. You don't notice it until you are years older and you go,, how did I ever get along without it.

For instance cell phones. Everyone has one, or in my case two. Even 12 year olds have one. How were we able to make plans with people and get directions when we got lost. See what was playing at the theatre. I literally have a panic attack when I have left mine at home. I act like knowone is going to talk to me all day without it. I do not receive as many phone calls as my husband does but I do get my share. I am not including co-workers with studio issues either. Thus the reason I got 2 phones. They suck my minutes right out of me. Anyways... think about when you were a kid. Making plans with friends. You would call them up and set up a meeting place and time right? Well what happened if the plans got changed? When you got there knowone, except maybe one other arrived. Later you find out they tried to call you before you left to tell you they were going somewhere else, but you were already gone. Or everyone is meeting to shoot pool and when they arrive it is so packed that there is a waiting list for a table. Talking it over everyone that has arrived so far are scheduling for another location. Everyone leaves except one who has been designated to stay behind and give directions to everyone else. Which really sucks when you don't know who all is coming or don't know some of the people. Even something as great as the cell phone can cause disaster and one is accidents. People are talking on the phone not watching what they are doing and miss their turn, or are trying to answer it and hit the back of another car. But it does come in handy to dial 911 or to call the tow truck.

Another one would be television. Without it what were people doing? There is only so much a person a can do. This is also probably the reason people had 4-5 kids per family. That is all there was to do at night. Yeah family fun night is great and all but it is not so cool when you are a teenager. Back when they had only a few channels and one TV, it had to be a nightmare. It is still Like Jeff Foxworthy says "Kids today have it made. 'Cause if they don't like what's on television, they've got 40, 50 channels to choose from! Remember how many channels we got when we were kids? 3. And if the President was on, your night was shot. 'The President's on! He's on every channel! We're gonna miss Flipper !' " That is exactly right. Nowadays though they got up to 500 channels to chose from. Though some are the same thing just a different show is on. Like Discovery, Discovery kid, Disney Channel, Toon Disney, HBO west, HBO east.... And so on and so forth. And now some houses have a TV for every room so that there is no such thing as family fun night. Now it is telesitter. Turn on the TV set the kid in front of it and do your housework. Though again here is an invention that has been proved to suck the energy out of people and make their IQ lower.

What about vehicles? I can see why all the people in the older years are quite fit and skinny. They all had to ride bicycles or walk to get around town. The vehicle is an awesome invention though. The vehicle can get you long distances in a short amount of time. It can carry more than one person. It can get you to the hospital, grocery store, movies, or even a friends house. The larger these cities get the more the car made it easier to get to the other side of town. When you watch all these old TV shows you see that the family has one car and dad drives it 90% of the time. Nowadays everyone who is over 16 can drive it, and usually 2 or 3 cars are in the driveway. One day the dogs will be able to do it too. Vehicles get bigger, faster, tougher and consumer friendly. But like all inventions it had its downfall too. Now you have pollution and high gas prices, along with packed roadways. Oh and don't forget about death.

If you seriously think of it, you'll actually find yourself wondering what you did. Here are a few others things that make you go HMMMmmmmm. Air Conditioning, computers, music in the car, booze, hair products, pencils, condoms,... Well you get the idea. I bet you can come up with quite a few more. Enjoy.