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Rainy Day Auto said:
Some of us lived with no cell phones as younger people. When I was first in college I wanted a cell phone. My dad who could easily afford one, told me I could get one when I get a job, as he handed me 75 cents for a payphone.

At the time I felt like life was unfair. But now I thank him and if I ever have a kid, I'm going to do the same thing to him or her.
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Same here. I didn’t get a cell phone until I was in my 20s, honestly, kind of regret it.
Bills65Dart said:
I would not be surprised if people got a mental break down. Oh, that reminded me of a thing I have forgotten for a long time now, I was supposed to sit down with a paper and pencil and calculate on paper, I must not forget that.

Bill
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yeah, people at work laugh at me when I do math on scratch pads when I have a calculator and a computer there. But I tell them I prefer to work it out. Surprisingly, I have the 2nd lowest error rate out of the 32 of us. The lady who’s error rate is better than me does the exact same thing, all math on paper, but she’s 30 years my senior
 
Rainy Day Auto said:
Some of us lived with no cell phones as younger people. When I was first in college I wanted a cell phone. My dad who could easily afford one, told me I could get one when I get a job, as he handed me 75 cents for a payphone.

At the time I felt like life was unfair. But now I thank him and if I ever have a kid, I'm going to do the same thing to him or her.
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I didn’t let my daughter have a smart phone until she was 12 and I limited her use of it. I have slowly allowed her to expand her use of it so that she keeps a balanced perspective of its benefits and is very aware of its risks. When she dives into it to deeply, I take it away and get her to come up for air of being able to live without it before I let her have it back.

Technology is a double edged sword. It brings great benefits, but also significant risks if you lose yourself to it. Teaching her the balance between the two is my primary mission for making her become a fully functional adult in the modern World. Technology is just a tool of this reality, not a reality of it’s own.

So far, at age 15, she has learned the lessons well.
 
Without my phone from 06:00 until 11:00 was stressful. I was worried about losing all my stuff due to the stone dead phone.
Yup, 90% of my contacts didnt return. Music took a couple hours to return. E-mail, had to set up a new addy so my providers had an e-mail to send a password/verification to.
Im gettin a little crazy over all this.
 
Tooljunkie said:
Without my phone from 06:00 until 11:00 was stressful. I was worried about losing all my stuff due to the stone dead phone.
Yup, 90% of my contacts didnt return. Music took a couple hours to return. E-mail, had to set up a new addy so my providers had an e-mail to send a password/verification to.
Im gettin a little crazy over all this.
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Yeah used to we had address books, easy to make copies
 
When i was in parts i remembered so many phone numbers. Not many now.
 
I have been watching old Pink Panther TV show episodes. Made me want to do a sketch...

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Rainy Day Auto said:
Some of us lived with no cell phones as younger people. When I was first in college I wanted a cell phone. My dad who could easily afford one, told me I could get one when I get a job, as he handed me 75 cents for a payphone.

At the time I felt like life was unfair. But now I thank him and if I ever have a kid, I'm going to do the same thing to him or her.
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There WERE no cell phones when most of us here were ‘younger people’. Lol
 
zkx14 said:
There WERE no cell phones when most of us here were ‘younger people’. Lol
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Hell, for a lot of us even push button phones didn’t show up until after high school. We grew up spinning the rotary dial!

Cable TV? A dream...and if you had it, it was a cable stretching across the floor to a push button controller box.

My first year of college, they had posters all around campus saying “MTV...you might not get it, but you will.”
 
This evening I am like a 4 year old in a candy store.... Classic Industries sent me a paper catalog. I have not had a catalog like this in my hands in maybe 20 years. This is almost too much.... :popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::thumbsup::usflag::usflag::usflag::thumbsup::canada::canada::D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:steering::steering::rofl::rofl:

Bill
 
Bills65Dart said:
This evening I am like a 4 year old in a candy store.... Classic Industries sent me a paper catalog. I have not had a catalog like this in my hands in maybe 20 years. This is almost too much.... :popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::thumbsup::usflag::usflag::usflag::thumbsup::canada::canada::D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:steering::steering::rofl::rofl:

Bill
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Got mine too.
 
Bills65Dart said:
This evening I am like a 4 year old in a candy store.... Classic Industries sent me a paper catalog. I have not had a catalog like this in my hands in maybe 20 years. This is almost too much.... :popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::thumbsup::usflag::usflag::usflag::thumbsup::canada::canada::D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:steering::steering::rofl::rofl:

Bill
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Cool. And for future reference i too have a '65 parts manual. In the shop.
 
Ddaddy said:
Hell, for a lot of us even push button phones didn’t show up until after high school. We grew up spinning the rotary dial!

Cable TV? A dream...and if you had it, it was a cable stretching across the floor to a push button controller box.

My first year of college, they had posters all around campus saying “MTV...you might not get it, but you will.”
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I had a TI calculator when I was a Sr in high school. Only used it in physics :lol:
 
I have to move boats tomorrow. Should be fun.
 
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