Came across this and thought we need a little humor during out frequent breaks from studying......we need MORE breaks than the youngens.....you know what I mean
Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things.
The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1987 . They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.
Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
The CD was introduced the year they were born.
They have always had an answering machine
They have always had cable.
Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.
Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
They never took a swim and thought about Jaws!
They don't know who Mork was or where he was from
They never heard: "Where's the Beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel", or "de plane Boss, de plane".
McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.
They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter
Save the earth. It's the only planet with chocolate
No wonder we all have/HAD painful periods from all that psychological trauma of having to deal with this once a month:bugeyes: !!!!!
They still give you those in hospitals...
I don't think I've ever had the 'horror' of dealing with metal clips...that I remember. I know I got a pretty weird set up after giving birth, but not sure if I had to deal with metal clips.
Thank you for giving me a chuckle. So true! The other day I said to a classmate something about 'Laverne and Shirley' and she looked at me and said "who?" YIKES I FELT OLD. I guess I am getting old. When I went to school we had to wear pants. No shorts. Shorts were considered improper. Did I mention it gets up to 112 degrees here?!
I was born in Phoenix. I'm so old that from the first through fourth grade I had to wear DRESSES to school! You can imagine the fun the boys had trying to see our underwear as us girls swung on the swings. I wasn't allowed to wear pants to school until we moved to Payson. They had cowgirls up there and cowgirls wear pants!
How 'bout when the TV would go off and they would play the national anthem?
Now, I don't remember this but my husband does, anybody remember sitting in front of the TV staring @ an indian head waiting for a program to come on?
I am not much older then you and I remember this very clearly, I would wait for Uncle Gus LOL. I also remember the national anthem and remember thinking it was so scary like the world had shut down.
I also remember being terrified of nuclear war and everytime I heard the only test thing on tv I thought it was real.
JFK was shot the month before I was born so I don't remember that, but I do remember Viet Nam. I also remember when the Cougar was a sports car (my Dad had a '68 3 speed w/a Boss 302 engine). Lol I remember, when she was younger, showing my daughter the low rise bell bottom Levi's I wore in high school and she said, "Mom...ewwwww!!!! How wierd!" What does she wear now?! I remember when color TV's went on the market and a PC was unheard of...and teenagers didn't have cell phones, either. I also remember when the postage stamp went from 5 to 8 cents! Jeez, where have the years gone....?
P.S.
Guess I didn't read very well til now (sorry, its' still early here!), I'm not a "pre-nursing" student, but I enjoyed the thread.
its a really cool thread its making me laugh.
I have another good one, my mom was a nurse,
I remember her pressing her white uniform and polishing her white shoes, I loved to play with her Cap. Now is there anyone here who got to where those cute uniforms?
I grew up in New York City so no, party lines were long gone by my time.
NOBODY wore seatbelts! Ralph Nader hadn't made a stink about them yet. Remember laying in the back window of those big old 1940-something Oldsmobiles and Buicks?
And ladies wore hats and white gloves when going into town.
we actually had a party line in 1985 a new house we moved into for a year we had to put up with that until the phone co caught up with the growth.
LOL someone said about smoking in the stores I forgot about that.
and no seatbelts and we would ride in back of pick ups and a road trip meant blankets and pillows laid out in the back of a station wagon with the seats folded down.
I loved those shows and when we had netflix I rented them for the kids they loved Land of the lost and would play imaginary games with the characters LOL
i'm 32, and when i was growing up we didn't have cable television.
we had this gigantic metal "antenna" that shot up past the roof of the house, and we only got 4 channels.
and of course if we changed the channel someone (usually me) had to go outside and turn the antenna round and round until who ever inside the house said the reception was good enough!
i remember feeling like the little kid in a christmas story afraid my hands would stick to it in the winter time...lol:lol2:
LOL, my mom was allowed to smoke in her hospital room after she delivered me ! (Only the pt was allowed to smoke in the room, visitors had to go down to the Visiting room to smoke)
i am 38. call me old, but i’m wiser. i topped all my classes and made straight a's, just finished my prerequisite and will be taking the teas exams this august. i’m certainly proud to be much older, focused and wiser. it’s great to belong to the “older and wiser arena”.
guys we must be proud of our achievements kudos to u all.:cheers:
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No wonder we all have/HAD painful periods from all that psychological trauma of having to deal with this once a month:bugeyes: !!!!!
They still give you those in hospitals...