Pickles by Brian Crane for March 21, 2024

If you charge him big bucks, then it’s actual work.

Leave it to the ones who grew up with it.

Haven’t watched it since Alex, nor I watched Price is Right, I don’t care for Drew

In my day I had to walk across the room over a shag carpet to turn the knob to change the tv channel, and…..AND, adjust the rabbit ear antennas! Oh, the humanity!

Roscoe finds that an eye-opener even!

Nelson’s generation is well versed in the newfangled tech stuff Earl!

As a member of Gen X, I realized a long time ago that most “Back in my days we didn’t have… and we had to make our own fun!” is often nothing but jealousy. I knew if I had all the nice things my kids have now when I was their age, or what kids have nowadays, I would be just like them.

Earl has a laptop computer?

I would have guessed Earl would be more interested in playing Wheel of Misfortune instead of Jeopardy.

Whatever happened to TV?

Nice of you to contradict yourself there, Earl…

If it means free pizza then count me in!

Have a problem with an electronic device?Find an 8 year old to help you…

…and we had to walk a mile and a half in the snow, and when we wanted to change channels on the television, we had to get up off the couch to do it!"

Ohhhhh Earl……… YOU NEED HELP

And I didn’t have little battery powered cars to ride around in. I had to pedal them myself!

TV – Hello, Earl?

In my days we got only rocks to eat, and were happy to have even them.

Over the period of time, I got to see the dramatic advances in technology. When I was in Jr. High, we thought a slide rule was cool until a hand held calculator came along. When I first joined the Navy, I was trained on how to operate a teletype machine for communications. Just before I retired, The Internet and affordable personal computers came into being. Because I caught the “computer bug” in the mid eighties while still in the Navy, I started to learn computer programming, some of it by necessity when dealing with MS-DOS. I even created an executable program (app) on my last ship with a “C” program object code and MS-DOS ASC2BIN command to make it easier for my people to do their job.

Ha! That’s about it! They were born into the electronic age and it just comes naturally…..whereas we had to learn it….from the grandkids! LOL! ☺️❤️

I know what you mean, Roscoe!

We had to spend hours wasting time with only a ball and jacks, or marbels! Ok, occasionally we would kick a can around or bat at balls with a stick.

Me too … pumping gasoline, washing cars, learning how to chamois them properly, selling bait minnows, climbing TV antenna masts, learning how to repair auto generators, and set engine timing after replacing points, renting utility trailers before U-haul was created, building and installing Ron-Del folding aluminum awnings, selling and installing aluminum storm windows and doors … dating, marrying, graduating and moving to start work at Bell Telephone Labs.

Not really a complaint, more an acknowledgement of jealousy.

But we did have LEGO bricks – still with us.