what's something or a situation from your youth that the younger generations of today would go..."seriously dude?"

...we had a tv that had no remote...dad would make me change channels by pressing buttons or turning knobs on tv
...i know how to write cursively
...i didn't own a cell phone until my 30s
...i knew what "be kind and rewind" meant on a sticker on a vhs cassette...let alone beta
...i played video games on an atari console...before that pong 🤣
.... classics like "all in the family"... 'welcome back kotter" and "charlies angels" were quality programs....
.............. the list is endless..

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Nonegone

Party phone line (get off this phone or I’m coming over to knock you out!) record changer turning the antenna manually up on the roof cereal boxes had plastic flimsy records on the back sometimes milk truck delivered milk in glass jugs returning pop bottles for deposit and reuse.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Nonegone When I was a teen we had an 8-party line. All it took was one family with a chatty adult (usually a woman) or with teen girls to hog up the phone line for everyone. We had a neighbor who married a very nutty woman who would either stay on the line all day line calling various people when she couldn’t for some reason go into to town and run around bothering people all day. So many friends and relatives would call us later in the evening saying that they had tried all day long to call us to tell us something. My great-uncle made a surprise bus trip and called about a dozen times, always got a busy signal. He wanted us to go to town and pick him up at the bus station. Finally sent a telegram to us telling us that. They didn’t deliver it. They tried several more times to call us on the phone and finally got ahold of us and we got him earlier in the evening. The woman’s husband had come home and probably told her to get off the phone.

Nonegone

@cherokeepatti wow!! I think we had 6 and my grandparents had at least 8, it was nearly impossible to call them.