In My Day...

* In my day, we didn't have mouses to move the cursor   around. We
only had the arrows, and if the up arrow was   broken and you needed
to get to the top of the screen,   well, you just hit the left arrow a
thousand times,   dadgummit. (Kevin Cuddihy, Fairfax)
*   In my day, we couldn't afford shoes, so we went   barefoot. In
the winter we had to wrap our feet with   barbed wire for traction.
(Bill Flavin, Alexandria)
*   In my day, we didn't have hand-held calculators. We had   to do
addition on our fingers. To subtract, we had to   have some fingers
amputated. (Jon P. Smith, Washington)
*   In my day, we didn't have fancy high numbers. We had  
"nothing," "one," "twain" and "multitudes."   (Elden Carnahan, Laurel)
*   In my day, we didn't get that disembodied, slightly   ticked-off
voice saying `Doors closing.´ We got on the   train, the doors
closed, and if your hand was sticking   out it scraped along the
tunnel all the darn way to the   next station. (Russell Beland,
Springfield)
*   In my day, we didn't have virtual reality. If a one-eyed  
razorback barbarian warrior was chasing you with an ax,   you just had
to hope you could outrun him.   (Sarah M. Wolford, Hanover)
*   Back in the 1970s we didn't have the space shuttle to   get all
excited about. We had to settle for men walking   on the crummy moon.
(Russell Beland, Springfield)
*   In my day, we didn't have days. There was only "time   for
work," "time for prayer" and "time for sleep." The   sheriff would go
around and tell everyone when to change.   (Elden Carnahan, Laurel)
*   In my day, people could only dream of hitchhiking a   ride on a
comet. (David Ronka, Charlottesville)
*   In my day, we didn't have fancy health-food restaurants.   Every
day we ate lots of easily recognizable animal parts,   along with
potatoes drenched in melted fat from those   animals. And we're all as
strong as AAGGKK-GAAK Urrgh   . Thud. (Tom Witte, Gaithersburg)
*   When I was your age, we didn't have fake doggie-do.   We only
had real doggie-do, and no one thought it was a   darn bit funny.
(Brendan Bassett, Columbia)
*   In my day, we didn't have water. We had to smash   together our
own hydrogen and oxygen atoms.   (Diana Hugue, Bowie)
*   Kids today think the world revolves around them. In my   day,
the sun revolved around the world, and the world was   perched on the
back of a giant tortoise.   (Jonathan Paul, Garrett Park)
*   In the old days, nobody asked you to sign petitions.   The
sheriff just came to your house and told you you was   part of a
posse. (Barry Blyveis, Columbia)
*   In my day, we didn't have dogs or cats. All I had was   Silver
Beauty, my beloved paper clip.  (Jennifer Hart, Arlington)