Things Your Kids will never know about

[so1rfan]

This from Wired: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About | GeekDad | Wired.com

I thought we could add to the list of things our kids (or grandkids) will never know about or will be extinct in the near future.

How about:
Making popcorn on the stove (I bought some Jiffy-pop the other day and my girl was amazed)
Making spaghetti sauce
Recieving a paper paycheck

[PennyQuilts]

Driving long distances without a movie.
Baby aspirin to babies.
Heating bottles of milk on the stove rather than the microwave.
Pitchers of water cooled in the refridgerator rather than bottled water.
Ice cube trays.
Paper bags used to line trash cans.
Rotary Phones.
Metal trays on frozen dinners.
Drainboards in new houses.
Paperboys on bikes or on foot.
Dogs running loose (no leash laws).
Service station attendants filling your tank, cleaning your windows.
pulltabs/poptops on canned drinks.
Steel beer cans.
Pacifiers with stuff floating in them.
Afternoon newspapers.
Hard contacts as the norm.

[MadMonk]

Some of those in their list I agree with, some not - like swimming pools with diving boards and using the library only for internet access. Those are just odd. I can name three people I know with diving boards on their pool and I don't know anyone that goes to the library for internet access.

Here's a couple I thought of.

• Vehicle-mounted cellular phones. My daughter thought it was hilarious that I once had a phone mounted in my car, and later had a hand-held cellphone that you couldn't fit in your pocket.
• Only having 3 - 6 channels to choose from on TV and needing "rabbit ears" to tune them in.

[papaOU]

Some of those in their list I agree with, some not - like swimming pools with diving boards and using the library only for internet access. Those are just odd. I can name three people I know with diving boards on their pool and I don't know anyone that goes to the library for internet access.

Here's a couple I thought of.

• Vehicle-mounted cellular phones. My daughter thought it was hilarious that I once had a phone mounted in my car, and later had a hand-held cellphone that you couldn't fit in your pocket.
• Only having 3 - 6 channels to choose from on TV and needing "rabbit ears" to tune them in.

Have to call your hand on the library for internet. Go to any library in the OKC Metro and there can be an hour or more wait. Especially when school is out.

How about the kids will probably know who their real father is........

Sorry! Couldn't pass that up........

[sansee]

the milk man

[sansee]

how about heading to californa on route 66 standing up in the seat or taking a nap in the rear window

[Generals64]

How about these:

Swimming in the creek with cut-offs on...No name brand Swim Suit.
Being excited to get "Hand-me-downs" clothes.
Mom baking dinner rolls from scratch.
Having to actually put your own sugar on cereal
Having "Party lines" on the phone....explain that one to the kids it doesn't mean a party.
"Fake" White walls on your car tires.
Actually going to a "dime Store"...not the dollar store
Reading a comic book (only cost 10 cents)
Sleeping out side because you wanted to.
Commodity Butter and cheese.....like to have some of the P-nut butter now
Door-to door Insurance salesmen....
Having to ride the same bike for 2-5 years......
Having to get a job if you really wanted a car.....you had to WORK for it,

[gen70]

Slide rules and 60's business machines.

[gmwise]

ahhh Generals64 /gen70 we're ancient lol

[papaOU]

a 45 or LP vinyl
record player
put coins on the tone arm so the record won't skip
transistor radio
if placed in the basket of your bike a thermos full of glass
driving/riding with a truck behind and in front while going through the Arbuckles (77)
Okc to Tucson and back with five people in a VW before I-40 and in the summer.
fruit and vegetable stands along the highway as well as curio shops with a 2 headed rattlesnake, buffalo, longhorn and all sorts of things.
Not having to be told by t.v. or radio that the weather is so bad you should only get out in emergency situations and Braum's is not an emergency destination.

[gen70]

8-track tapes and I actually owned a 4-track tape player.

[phinzup]

The Fuller brush man.
Door to Door vacuum salesmen.
Listening to the Lone Ranger, Sky King, Sgt. Preston, etc, on the radio every Saturday morning.
Listening to "The Inner Sanctum:, Amos & Andy, and many others in the evenings. On the radio of course.
Playing with the neighborhood kids, OUTSIDE!!!
Get a swat at school. Getting more when dad got home from work.
Drive In movies
Having a 3D Danny decoder ring.
Wheat jeans
Wedgies
Horseshoe taps

[bandnerd]

Betamax.
Smoking sections (eventually...)

[USG '60]

The Fuller brush man.
Door to Door vacuum salesmen.
Listening to the Lone Ranger, Sky King, Sgt. Preston, etc, on the radio every Saturday morning.
Listening to "The Inner Sanctum:, Amos & Andy, and many others in the evenings. On the radio of course.
Playing with the neighborhood kids, OUTSIDE!!!
Get a swat at school. Getting more when dad got home from work.
Drive In movies
Having a 3D Danny decoder ring.
Wheat jeans
Wedgies
Horseshoe taps

You're bound to be a southsider. No one else would know what wedgies are in that context.

[Prunepicker]

Rotary Phones.
Service station attendants filling your tank, cleaning your windows.
pulltabs/poptops on canned drinks.

When grand daughter tried to use our rotary phone for the first time, she
just starred at it. I told her to dial the phone by putting her finger in the
holes. She began sticking her finger in the holes like a push button phone.
Too funny.

The service attendants would check the oil and any fluids, too.

How about opening pop cans with a church key?

[PennyQuilts]

Prune!!! You're back!

[Prunepicker]

Prune!!! You're back!

Yes! I'm just going to be hanging out at the nostalgia & memories threads
from now on.

[USG '60]

It sure is easier on the nerves that way, ain't it?

[Generals64]

It sure is easier on the nerves that way, ain't it?

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Hey, I went to my 45th Class Reunion the other day. There was a guy (from Capitol Hill) with one of the girls from my Class....He had just had a pair of NEW Wedges made at Loveless Shoes.....Wing tips and everything....Only from Capitol Hill..

Back on the topic however, how about popping popcorn and putting it in a #5 Grocery sack and going to the Drive-In theater with a couple of gallons of Kool-Aid?

Remember when you wore a thong on your feet????
The biggest thing to get high on was Model Car Glue
How about .19 cent Gasoline
Polyester tires....no steel belting....
Door to door bread salesman
Borrowing a cigarette from the neighbor and getting two...never mind...

[papaOU]

black and white wingtips. I'd still wear them.

[papaOU]

several years ago my daughter was going to buy a new lawn mower and asked if she wanted me to go with her. She said she had a "new" type picked out. It didn't need gas because it did not have an engine.

She's a lot like her mother!!

[papaOU]

placing slacks between the mattresses to keep a crease!!

[grantgeneral78]

playing cards in the spokes of your bicycle to give the motorcycle sound
banana seats
sissy bars
hand crank ice cream buckets
hand crank copy machines with the drums
knowing jeremiah was a bullfrog

[Prunepicker]

hand crank copy machines with the drums

That would have been a memograph.

[SOUTHSIDE GIRL]

How about hanging your clothes on a rack by the floor furnace to dry. Or filling up the swamp cooler. Or the original seat belt.........Mom's arm across your shoulders , cause you were standing up in the seat beside her while she was driving.