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Fri 2 Jun, 2006 04:27 pm
Lately I've been pretty damn jealous of some little kids. I'll be walking down the street, plotting my next mugging of a handicapped gentleman, when I'll see some little dude go whizzing by like he was on roller skates. Except then all of a sudden he's walking.
They got these sneakers with a little wheel on the back of each heel, and kids just lean back on their heels and go rolling.
I would have freakin' loved that when I was a kid.
What thing do kids have today, that you wish you had when you were a little punk-ass?
internet access....Child Protective Services....paintball....
Carmen Electra.
I had a similar feeling of missing out when Big Wheels came on the scene. I was just a tad too big by the time of their unveiling.
Ellicit chat room conversations with men three times my age.
But seriously? When I was a little Gargamel, NERF was all I needed. Nerf basketball when I was supposed to be doing homework. Nerf football on the beach. Nerf fencing in the basement (for real!).
Those shoes definitely sound badass though.
BlaiseDaley wrote:Carmen Electra.
I had a similar feeling of missing out when Big Wheels came on the scene. I was just a tad too big by the time of their unveiling.
Ah, Big Wheels ruled. I have fond memories of skidding into the middle of the street and narrowly escaping gruesome deaths on my Wheels. I was jealous of the kids with the Knight Rider Big Wheels. Couldn't nobody fukk wit' da Knight Rider Big Wheels.
Mo has a two seater John Deere tractor toy that he can frikken DRIVE over to his friend's house. I would have been the Queen of 18th street if I'd had something like that.
Most of all though - digital cameras. You cannot imagine how much I would have loved loved loved having one of those so that my pesky parents couldn't have always complained about film costs.
I have a little underwater/dry land digital camera that is indestructable that I let Mo use. Every time he uses it I nearly die with jealousy.
But yeah.... those shoes with wheels are serious cool.
Re: I wish I was in that little kid's shoes
Slappy Doo Hoo wrote:Lately I've been pretty damn jealous of some little kids. I'll be walking down the street, plotting my next mugging of a handicapped gentleman, when I'll see some little dude go whizzing by like he was on roller skates. Except then all of a sudden he's walking.
They got these sneakers with a little wheel on the back of each heel, and kids just lean back on their heels and go rolling.
I would have freakin' loved that when I was a kid.
What thing do kids have today, that you wish you had when you were a little punk-ass?
But Slappy, you
are a little punkass.
Those little motorized scooters..
mp3 players, hell i was almost twenty before the walkman came on the scene
I'm gonna go with the "size" of things.
The tv's are freaking huge, a 19 inch tv in the family room now-a-days is probably grounds for child services to come in and inspect the household. My parents now have a 65 inch, hi def/plasma tv...that can be used as a particle accelerator by college kids when it's not being watched.
Mp3 players are tiny...whereas I had a boom box that weighed as much as I did, of course at the time it was..the bigger it was the cooler you were...but my spine did not agree. My left arm is still quite bigger than my right, and my left ear still has a callous on it, from rubbing on the steel speaker grills when I picked it up or set it down.
The old portable casette recorders that I played with when I was a kid were gigantic compared to my Bic lighter sized digital recorder. Walkmans were smaller, but still a pain because I had to wear my blue jean jacket all day in sweltering heat, just to hide it in the inside pocket so the teachers couldn't see it.
There's something I covet but I dunno if it's from a grown-up's or kid's perspective -- this little bike that you can attach to a grown-up's bike:
(That seems a little too one-piece, the one I saw yesterday is completely separate and then attaches to a regular bike, SO cool...)
Those glitzy metallic scooters that even hip yuppies started using, ridiculously, during a short fad in 2000...
and clothes, the kids have much cuter hipper clothes than the stuff we got to wear (money's a factor I'm sure)..
As for being a teen today: Ipods yeah, and parties ... our parties were at some friend's place where the parents were away, somewhere in suburbia, where we talked and fooled around till the morning ... now they're out in fancy clubs drinking breezers dancing till the morning ... bugger them.
Computers. And the internet. Life would have been easy and breezy being able to answer any question, get information about pretty much anything. We had the Encyclopedia Brittanica and the companion Childcraft books and they were great but if personal computers had been around back then and so easily accessible...
eoe wrote:Computers. And the internet. Life would have been easy and breezy being able to answer any question, get information about pretty much anything. We had the Encyclopedia Brittanica and the companion Childcraft books and they were great but if personal computers had been around back then and so easily accessible...
Yes, those were the days, when we actually had to set foot in a library and browse...b-b-b-books...more often than not written by scholars and checked by a team of editors.
The memory sends shivers down my spine.
2PacksAday wrote:I'm gonna go with the "size" of things.
The tv's are freaking huge, a 19 inch tv in the family room now-a-days is probably grounds for child services to come in and inspect the household. My parents now have a 65 inch, hi def/plasma tv...that can be used as a particle accelerator by college kids when it's not being watched.
Mp3 players are tiny...whereas I had a boom box that weighed as much as I did, of course at the time it was..the bigger it was the cooler you were...but my spine did not agree. My left arm is still quite bigger than my right, and my left ear still has a callous on it, from rubbing on the steel speaker grills when I picked it up or set it down.
The old portable casette recorders that I played with when I was a kid were gigantic compared to my Bic lighter sized digital recorder. Walkmans were smaller, but still a pain because I had to wear my blue jean jacket all day in sweltering heat, just to hide it in the inside pocket so the teachers couldn't see it.
I remember the first pocket calculator I ever had was the size of a palm pilot and all it did was add, subtract, multiply and divide.
Gargamel wrote:eoe wrote:Computers. And the internet. Life would have been easy and breezy being able to answer any question, get information about pretty much anything. We had the Encyclopedia Brittanica and the companion Childcraft books and they were great but if personal computers had been around back then and so easily accessible...
Yes, those were the days, when we actually had to set foot in a library and browse...b-b-b-books...more often than not written by scholars and checked by a team of editors.
The memory sends shivers down my spine.
I wouldn't trade the countless hours spent in libraries for anything, tho. I loooooooved going to the library.
Yeah, me too. I'm working the circulation desk at a library this summer. It's a sweet job, sitting in the air-conditioning, reading.
computer access would've made schoolwork a hell of a lot easier.
i'm tellin' ya, these kids today got it made... dag-nabbit.
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