Things that today's kids will never know the joy of.

Thinking about my grandchildren today and some of the things that I did as a child, which they will never have the opportunity to do. I decided to make a list. Read my list and see if there are things you would add to it.

Technological Things

1. Looking up a friend in the phone book or a business in the yellow pages.
2. Use a rotary phone.
3. Listening to the dial-up sound as you wait to connect to the internet.
4. Not being able to get on the internet because your parent is waiting on an important phone call.
5. Use a rotary phone or payphone for that matter.
6. Not having caller-ID so having no idea who was calling you.
7. Spending hours creating the perfect “mix tape” to play in your room or car.
8. The frustration of having a phone cord that constantly is tangled.
9. Turning away from the scrolling tv channel guide momentarily only to have to wait until it goes full-circle again.
10. Having to rewind a movie before you return it.
11. Making prank calls and getting away with it because no one had caller ID.
12. Miscellaneous – knowing what a floppy disk is, how to read a paper edition tv guide, visiting a Blockbuster, sending text messages the old fashioned way by writing a note to someone in school, fax machines, card catalogs, roll up car windows, and playing Atari Pong.

Home Stuff

1. Green Stamps.
2. Hot rollers.
3. Having an Encyclopedia set.
4. Figuring out directions with a foldout map.
5. Listening to music while exercising but the CD keeps skipping.
6. Needing to mail your bills but you ran out of stamps.
7. Missing the last episode of your favorite tv show and having to wait until the summer reruns to find out what happened.
8. The sound of a real alarm clock.
9. Trying to get rich off beanie babies.
10. Rolodexes to store all your important phone numbers.
11. Having a beeper / pager.
12. Having a CD case to carry around your favorite music.

 Toys

1. Mattel Electronic Football (think Game Boy).
2. Stretch Armstrong.
3. Weebles – they wobble but they don’t fall down.
4. Playing 3 on 3 baseball and knowing what pitcher’s had, right field closed, and ghost runners meant. Or playing hopscotch.
5. Eating cake from an easy bake oven.
6. Lite Brite.
7. Magna Doodle’s.
8. Hot Wheel tracks with loop-to-loops.
9. Silly putty and using it to make copies off a newspaper.
10. Eight track boom box.
11. Viewmasters.
12. Putting cards in the spokes of your bicycle.

Food and Snacks

1. Hubba Bubba gum.
2. Reggie bars.
3. New Coke or maybe Tab.
4. Big Stuff Oreo’s.
5. Fiddle Faddle.
6. Betty Crocker’s Mug-O-Lunch.
7. Zucchini Bread.
8. Chicken A La King.
9. Chipped Beef on Toast.
10. Deviled Ham or potted meat.
11. Olive Loaf lunchmeat.
12. Tuna Noodle Casserole.

 What items am I missing? What categories am I missing?