Organized, what is that?! I am so not organized – I have some writing on this computer, some more on my other computer. I left my cell phone at home today (aww). Now how can I do any business without my cell phone? It feels like I cannot communicate to keep in touch with everyone. I am stressed out.
How ridiculous is that?
I remember a time when we had no cell phones – how did we survive? There were payphones – and they were few and far between, but all in all, we did survive. Our parents didn’t flip out if they could not make contact with us every minute of every second of every day.
That gave us a lot more freedom, in fact, thinking back, we had to make decisions by ourselves, things like should we go to our friends’ house after school or having the cool kid with the car take us to A & W. I usually did make those decisions on the fly, but of course, I would call from my friends home phone or a payphone if I thought I would be too late. To make a call from a payphone back then cost a dime – it later went to a quarter – the outrage of it all!
We didn’t have the convenience of calling everyone, hard to believe. In school, we passed notes – I guess that makes me as old as dirt? Anyone who would have told me, in the future, we would have mobile phones that would send a text message, pictures, and video. No way! Of course, that would have been my teenage reply.
Another thing – do you ever find that when you put something in a safe place, you can never find it again? Am I the only one who has this problem – I hope somebody out there can relate to this, LOL.
Loved reading it….thanks for sharing!
I loved this article, but of course, I lived through all of that except being a boy I tended to stay out as long as I wanted and never called anyone to let them know where I was. Perhaps being a foster kid I was a bit of a rebel. I could so relate to James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. Thanks for the memories.
Thank you sorry it took me so long to comment… My mom kept a pretty tight rope on me.