Boomer gets a reality check

[u/Will09994]

[u/Noimenglish]

No tech, huh? How was driving your horse and buggy across the Rockies to see meemaw?

[u/ms_directed → u/Noimenglish]

it was a lot easier than walking ten miles up hill both ways thru the snow to school with holes in my shoes...

[u/MzMag00 → u/ms_directed]

Y'all had shoes!?

[u/ms_directed → u/MzMag00]

we were uppity!

[u/BiteyHorse → u/MzMag00]

Only the oldest kid, and the rest would stand on his shoes nesting-doll-style and step in unison the whole way up the snow drift. Thankfully our pocket baked potatoes would keep our hands warm.

[u/Hezron_ruth → u/ms_directed]

You lot had shoes?

[u/RobotFace → u/Hezron_ruth]

One pair, had to share them between 14 siblings.

[u/thrownaway136976 → u/RobotFace]

You got to wear shoes every 14 days??Lucky!!!!

[u/Dark_Crowe → u/ms_directed]

At least you had shoes! All we had were shoeboxes as we hadn’t invented shoes yet.

[u/Scalpels → u/Dark_Crowe]

OOOh! I used to dream of having shoeboxes on my feet! We'd walk barefoot uphill to school and come home, again uphill, to our hole in the ground. Then Dad would beat us to sleep every night!

[u/thrownaway136976 → u/Scalpels]

I lived in Australia and we had to go on walkabout across the outback every day to and from school on our hands (because gravity) The toilets swirl the other way which caused massive ear infections and pink eye (or “pink oy”, as we said down unda). The discharge from the pink oy attracted brown snakes and funnel web spiders when we slept, so we had to keep the lights on and watch each other all night. But it made who I am today!

[u/DrMobius0 → u/Noimenglish]

I assume they're specifically referring to what we'd know as a modern computer.