Gergina's World

Dedicated to the kids of the 60s, 70s and 80s of the 20th century

Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by admin in Featured

If you were a kid back then, it would be difficult for you to believe while looking back that you actually survived to see today. We were driving cars without security belts, without airbags, our small kids’ beds were painted in the brightest imaginable colors containing a dangerous amount of lead. There were no child-proof locks on bottles of drugs, doors very often lacked locks and drawers didn’t lock at all. We were drinking water from street fonts and not from sterile mineral water bottles. No one would have ever thought of wearing a bike helmet. What a horror!

For hours, we were carving self-made toy cars out of boards and with tires found on some trash disposal site and not until driving down the hill with the self-made batman mobile, it suddenly occured to us that we forgot to build brakes. In the mornings, we were going out, playing all day long and coming home when the street lights were being turned on at night, if there were any at all. And during this entire time, no one knew where we were playing or what we were up to. There were no cell phones or iPhones, imagine that!

Several kids were sharing an ice cream and a soda and no one died. We didn’t have PCs, 3D games, CDs, cells, 160 channels on cable TV, Internet, iTunes and social media. We went to the movies in bunches, because video didn’t exist!

But we had friends. We were going out to see them. If we were needing someone, we went to their homes to see them, just like that, without calling first. Alone in this brutal world, without security. How did we even manage to survive?

We made up our own games, we ate cherries with the stone and no one had any digestion problems because of it. During breaks at school, we splashed water from multi-use injections and dish liquid bottles. Our actions were ours and ours only and we were ready to face the consequences. We suffered cuts, bruises and broke our bones, but no one sued the other. We held ourselves responsible. The idea of bribing the cops or trying to avoid military service didn’t exist. Our parents, relatives, friends and acquaintances from those times always stood on the side of the law.

Yeeeeaaah, this is how we were!

And this is what we’ve become:

1.  By mistake, you enter your pin code in the microwave control panel.

2.  You haven’t played Patience with real cards for years.

3. You can’t find your car in the parking lot, unless you call it by remote.

4.  Your grandma talks more about Esmeralda and Ridge than about her own kids.

5. You know more about Brad Pitt’s problems than about your brother’s.

6. You hear on the news that 50 people lost their lives in a bombing and you change the channel because it’s nothing new.

7. You take your shoes off before entering…the plane.

8. You have a list with 15 phone numbers to call your four-members-family.

9. Man’s best friend isn’t the dog anymore, it’s the iPhone.

10. You call yourself every morning in order to find your cell phone.

11. You’re pissed by the fact that you can’t do the same with the TV remote.

12. You don’t know anybody’s phone number by heart, not even your own, because they’re all in your cell.

13. You don’t call your friends anymore, because you see what they’re doing on facebook or twitter.

14. To leave your cell at home is a drama. The only thing more scary is to lose it!

15. Your kids play soccer every day…on the PS3.

16. Your 10-year-old nephew doesn’t talk much but he chats perfectly fine on Google Talk.

17. Your 10-year-old nephew writes faster on the keyboard than he’s able to speak.

18. You’re not up-to-date if you haven’t slept with your sex.

19. If you’re at a teen party, you can take a leak anywhere, just not in the restrooms; the restrooms are for sex only.

20. Most people born around 1999 have already had more sex than you had.

21. If you’re listening to songs with a sense then you’re either too old or gay.

22. You have a login for your file with logins.

23. You send e-mails to your colleague at work who is sitting…next to you.

24. Your reason for not keeping in touch with relatives and friends is that they don’t have e-mail.

25. You check your mails at least 10 times a day, but you don’t have the time for a chat with your mum more than once a week.

26. If there’s nothing in the mail for you for more than a week, you feel neglected, even if you usually get only advertising mail.

27. If you don’t get any e-mails for a day or two, you start missing spam.

28. You hate writing with a pen, because there’s no spelling check.

28. You complain that there’s no copy-paste on your cell, so you buy a cell with a copy-paste.

29. You buy a cool digital camera to take as many pictures as you like. Now, there are so many that you don’t have the time to look at them.

30. You call from your car while standing at the front door in order to check if there’s someone home to help you with the groceries.

31. You’re getting pissed at your friends’ not calling you when they’re five minutes late.

32. Your kids don’t want to eat food that hasn’t been on TV.

33. You get up in the morning and go online before coffee.

34. The more you plan your time, the less you have.

35. You paint smiley faces even when writing with a pen.

36. You incline your had sideways when you smile

37. You smile while reading this text.

39. You actually want to say “blog” instead of  ”text”.

38. You know exactly to whom you’ll forward this blog.

40. So go ahead! Time’s money.

Your Gergina

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