Oh, you have satellite tv? Let’s see what’s on…
Channel 113, 114, 115, 116, 116West, …
The 19ft 📡 in backyard: wrrrrrrr rrrr…
…117, 118…1060 West Addison.
I still have a distinct memory of trying to get on the Internet and then hearing my dad’s voice coming through the computer speakers. He’d been on the phone with someone.
We had no power in our home.
That’s called living deep in the country.
Smallest gust of wind and the power lines are out for a week. (ノT＿T)ノ︵┻━┻No no, there was actually no power at all. Like no power lines and we had lanterns. Lol
We also had lanterns and candles and shit, because the power was just that unstable and unreliable. 90% of the time we were ruffing it like the Amish; pumping our own water, shitting in the woods, the works. At one point we lost power for an entire year because of some sort of tragedy I can’t remember the details of, and after nagging him that entire time, finally my step-father was like “fuck this shit, we’re getting a generator”. That was ~7-10 years worth of my child hood. 😅 The fucking bees & snakes and shit too. (⊙_◎) Just that dirt poor deep country side experience.
Damn, sounds like my life. Bet it made you a tough mother fucker, didn’t it? I personally I appreciate the shit I went through now. I can basically live anywhere with no issue. Life is hardly ever “tough” for me anymore. Lol.
You bet, I still got scars on my hands from hauling water & chopping fire word. Shit, one time I got bit by a non deadly venomous snake when I was ~7, boy did that ever hurt like hell. Had to get a rabies shot after handling some raccoons when I was about 12 too, I’m sure you know all about that shot. Got a bunch of burns from the furnace and sparks jumping from camp fires. Hauling coal is one hell of a chore too. 😅 And so much more. Life in the city is childs play in comparison, all you gotta do is avoid trouble best you can and you’ll be fine.
Man, this is awesome to read. I’m going down the memory lane because of this. 😂
Coffee and cigarettes, indoors, at a cafe, on lunch break in highschool.
We had a smokers’ wall in high school: a corner of the break yard next to the cafeteria that was designated by a yellow stripe painted on the ground. It was always full-to-bursting at every break, and if you had even a toe over it whilst smoking, it was immediate detention.
Don’t forget you could smoke on public transit, Greyhound and airline flights.
Oh man… I said “box art” the other day and my buddies daughter pointedly asked what I was talking about :-)
I love how the title is “Tell me what it mean” and then 747 replies later, no one has done that.
yeah, I see all your extreme gen X nostalgia, dial-up internet browsing, floppy disk hole punching, cassette pencil rewinding, unshielded electronics interference having, family party line sharing, coin return checking asses, and I raise you something only REAL old kids will remember:
Silly nandz. Only the real old heads will remember kids trading various kinds of silly bandz with each other. Alternatively, depending on how much the people around you believed in pseudoscience, the power balance hologram bracelets could also be found around people’s wrists, at that time.
Renting the never ending story so many times the store just gave it to us after a while.
Loading games from audio cassette.
Let’s go one deeper… you couldn’t play games without sliding a switch
My first game controller only had one button.
There was a video game console that used clear colored plastic that you would stick onto the tv to show different colored areas on the screen. It also came packaged with dice and paper money.
Magnavox Odyssey. I grew up playing that beast.
For a moment I thought you were referring to the genlock anti piracy device. That was a fresnal lens you held up to the screen to decode a key to continue the game.
Nah. Those were interesting but I much preferred the code wheels and charts, because they were easier to read.
What console was that?
The Magnavox Odyssey
I can’t believe I didn’t know about that! Heading down a rabbit hole to read about it now. Thank you, friend.
My speakers used to be able to let me know I was about to receive a call on my cell phone.
Using a hole punch to make 5 1/4" disks double sided! Saved a lot of money!
