My daughter has recently expressed an interest in horror movies, and being that she’s approaching 15 and thus unlikely to wind up sleeping in my bed for six months because of psychological trauma, I let her watch Poltergeist with me, for the first time.
(Two seconds into the movie…)
Caolinn: “Why does that TV look like that?”
Me: “It has a picture tube…TVs used to weigh like a hundred pounds.”
Caolinn: “Why is that phone on the wall? You can’t move.”
Me: “Welcome to the 80’s, Caol.”
Caolinn: “Why is the TV all fuzzy?”
Me: “Because at night, the stations used to stop programming around midnight. They’d play the national anthem, and then just stop broadcasting.”
Caolinn: “Seriously…the scariest thing about this movie is how you guys used to live. PLEASE tell me there is going to be something dead in this movie, aside from the technology.”
Fisticuffs and Shenanigans 
The horror! Now I feel old. And on a Monday morning. Your daughter is quite funny.
Try watching it with her while she reaches over and plucks a white hair from your head.
That is a human rights violation.
Agreed! To The Hague!!!
Hahahaha
Lol, that people in the movie was fortunate because at least they had TV, where I lived in those years there was no electricity to see it XD
Dear Lord, you win!!!
OMG! Does she know we didn’t have cellphones!? Does she know that those rotary-dial, wall-phones were sometimes locked by parents, forcing you (me) to walk all the way to the other side of the complex to use a PAY PHONE to call your friends!?
That’s so hilarious.
And you couldn’t use Tumblr from your bathroom!?
The interwebs weren’t invented yet… LOL
Shit, I can barely remember the days before Google. Dark days, friend…dark days.
Oh goodness. Yes, i wouldn’t even think twice about those things… can’t imagine what my 6 year old will think by the time I introduce him to my favorite movies!
Seriously, the clothes alone were killing her. Lil
That’s awesome.
My first mobile phone was attached to my car with one of those curly cords. Kids today don’t know how it was to walk to school in the snow. It was uphill both ways.
You kid, but when I taught in Germany and walked to work…it was TOTALLY uphill both ways.
Dear lord..I feel so old. I hope she doesn’t ever find out that we only had about 6 channels to watch and if the president was speaking, your night was screwed. She’d think we were completely uncivilized!!
I told her. She thinks I’m lying. Lol
That’s hilarious! My kids know what landlines are because they have seen them in the museum … err … I mean their technophobe grandparents’ house. But it does boggle their little minds that before cell phones, if you were out of the house you were unreachable. They can’t imagine that as a way to be, and frankly at this point in my life I can’t either.
Seriously. Our parents used to go on vacations without contact. Wtf!? I can’t go to the store.
My son thought I lived in the stone age when I told him we made popcorn on the stove and it used to take 10 minutes to to heat up a can of soup.
I haven’t had the heart to share stories of doing research papers using paper printed encyclopedias.
Dear lord, don’t! He’ll have more nightmares than if he watched the movie!
Now I know I’m a dinosaur. All that’s left is to sit still long enough in the Man chair to petrify. I told my 23 yo last-born daughter I did research papers with pen and paper, used a slide rule, and drew engineering designs without a CAD program. She thought I was uncivilized and that just confirmed it.
Ha! Then I’m a velociraptor…I can be a velociraptor, right?
Certainly! Why not 🙂
HA!!! And they are “re-booting” this movie, too. Wonder how the producers and writers will tackle THAT? Reminds me of the time my then-14-year-old-niece watched A Nightmare on Elm Street. When it was over, she turned to my sister and said, “That was dumb.” Sheesh. That movie scared me to death when I was a kid.
I haven’t even seen that one. I’m not old enough yet. Lol
Bahahaha
🙂 thanks Food!
All I can do is laugh 🙂
Not only was the phone on the wall so you weren’t free to roam around, only as far as the cord would stretch but there were also party lines! You might have to wait a few minutes to start slow dialing your friend. Ahh, the good ol’ days! Cheers.
Ugh, the worst! I remember being badass for having my own landline in my parent’s house.
Google turned 16 years old the other day. What did we do before Google? We went to the fricken library. Things don’t get any more civilized than the library. Why am I checking out books on human sexuality and organic chemistry? I’m afraid I’m not at liberty to disclose that, Ma’am.
Lmao! The days of not looking a librarian in the eye are over.
This makes me feel old 🙂
Trust me…the live show was WAY worse. 🙂
This just makes me want to go into the light.
This house…is clean…
*rolls eyes* Teenagers! Don’t know they’re born… 😉
Seriously…the nerve. 🙂
LMAO!!!! I think I need to reblog this one. That kid of yours.
Seriously. If only we could clone her…the world would collapse under it’s awesomness.
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I love your posts. Needed a good laugh. Am I screwy for enjoying how pre-internet life confuses kids today? And for thinking at least I will know how to cook after the apocalypse hits?
Shit…if that happens, I’m screwed. My extensive collection of Kitchenaid attachments will be useless, and so, too, shall I be. 🙂
They will still be useful for self-defense 😉
Watch out motherfuckers…I gots me a dough hook!
As my daughter used to claim, anything older than her was an antique.
I’m dust. Or whatever is past dust.
Dust bunny? 🙂
Yes!!!
I thought the post was funny, but the comments are hysterical! Thanks for the 52 laughs (:
Seriously, the comments are always better than the post. 🙂