I’m a 37-year-old father of a nine-month-old and a kiddo that’s about two-and-a-half.  I imagine telling them some of the following in about 15-20 years.   Yes, I know there are those that are older than me that have had the same conversation with those my age, but I’m trying to envision what the future holds for me.

• There wasn’t such a thing as camping out at a store on Thanksgiving night.
• Only one team from district made the playoffs.
• There weren’t blue M&M’s.
• People use to pay for long-distance phone plans.
• When the phone rang, you had no idea who was on the other line.
• There was only one phone number per family/house, not per family member.
• Cellphones didn’t always have the ability to send a text.
• TV’s use to be square, heavy, and the back extended about a foot.
• The TV-remote I used when I was a kid made a very loud clicking sound and consisted of only four buttons.
• Not all TV’s came with a remote, and TV’s only had 13 channels.
• Christmas decorations went up after Thanksgiving.
• The top speed limit was 55 mph.
• Mail was delivered in a Jeep.
• Powered drills were only corded.
• People didn’t buy bottled water.
• There were nine planets in our solar system.
• You didn’t have to pay to take luggage on an airplane.
• Airplanes actually had a smoking section.  Yes, I know that doesn’t make sense.
• Babies weren’t put in car seats and kids didn’t wear bicycle helmets.
• Star Wars consisted of only three movies.
• Saturday morning cartoons were awesome.
• Not everything was made out of plastic.
• Wal-Mart didnt’ sell groceries.
• Texas didn’t have a lottery.
• We made our own ice cubes.
• Houses didn’t have a sprinkler system, or smoke alarms.
• A car came with two keys, one to start it, one to open the door and trunk, there were no remotes.
• You could only find a Chick-fil-A in a mall.
• When you took a picture, you had no idea how it turned out until you finished a roll of film and actually remembered to take it to get developed.  Oh, and you couldn’t edit them.
• Credit cards had to be put into a bulky sliding device that copied the front of the card in triplicate.
• Debit cards didn’t exist.
• The University of Texas and Texas A&M use to have a rivalry and played each other in football on Thanksgiving day or the day after.
• Coffee was a morning drink.
• A perfect score on the SATs was 1600.
• To obtain a driver’s license, you took a test with the DPS officer in the passenger seat.
• People paid bills by writing and mailing in a check.
• There were no ATMs, you actually had to go to the bank and make a personal withdrawal.
• There was no such thing as hand sanitizer.
• If we didn’t know the meaning or spelling of a word, we looked them up in a book called a dictionary.  If we needed to know more about a subject matter, we used something called an encyclopedia that consisted of about 30 books.
• The legal drinking age was 18.
• When it came to men’s underwear, there was only boxers and briefs.
• We use to put something called cassette tapes and CD’s in the arm rest and glove box, and we used those things to listen to recorded music.  If you were lucky, some cars came with both a tape and CD player.
• You could mail in a penny to become an exclusive member of club and get something like 8 crappy CDs and then be committed to buy many overpriced CDs.
• Quarterbacks were an open target.
• Restaurant tables only had one sweetener, sugar.
• The Cowboys use to win a playoff game and even attended a Super Bowl or two.
• There was something called a Twinkie.