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Does anyone remeber when DSL was the pinacle of connection speed?

I remember the first day of MTV.
But not at my house, at my cool teenage friend's house. I was under 10 at the time. I think. Can't really remember.
I remember having a huge Raggedy Ann doll. And I wore her clothes for Halloween one year.
But most of all, I remember shopping at a store called Cost Plus (not Cost Plus IMPORTS) in Fresno California that was filled with cool foreign toys and funky notebooks that smelled like grass and weird foreign food.
They also had metal bellydancing outfits on the wall. By the time by female attributes had grown enough to fit into a metal mesh bra, the store had changed to the outlet center version of Pier 1. crying I cry.

I remeber when there was that one kid in the neighborhood that had Atari and we all wanted to hang at his house because he had the Atari. Now, it's "Get your face out of hat Gameboy, the world's going on without you!"

And don't get me started on some of the haircuts and clothes teenage boys are wearing nowsaday. They look like morons.

That's going to be a glorious day indeed. I even told one of those little punks to his face, "You look like half a drag queen."

Teens these days know they can get away doing only what they want. I asked my daughter to go to a store with me because I needed her help. It was the middle of the day on a saturday, she told me no, that she was too tired. I told her that she was coming with me because what I was getting was too heavy for me to carry on my own. She layed down on the couch and turned her head away from me. I told her a few more times she was coming with me and she just said no, I then dragged her off the couch and she layed on the floor doing the same thing.

At that point what is a parent to do??? I told her to go to her room, which was just what she wanted, that way she could spend the day sleeping or doing what she wanted.

Now if I told her... "hey Teen, lets go to the mall..." she would have said, give me 10 minutes to get ready and we would have been out the door.

Well, Lil Jo, why'd you order your kid around instead of offering something more attractive? I mean, wouldn't it have been easier for you both to just say, "Hey, let's go to the mall."

And, then, you could say, "oh yeah, and while we're there, I need some help with these groceries."

Why, I remember when parenting wasn't about exerting power, it was about building a relationship that would last for years.

Of course, in them days, individual people actually HAD power.

And you know what else these kids nowadays don't appreciate?
Hunting. When's the last time you met a kid who could tell the difference between buck shot and bird shot? You tell me that!