Things Today's Teens Couldn't Handle!

Dirt roads
Thirty-Party Lines- 3 ring 11 and operator-dialed calls. Rotary dial phones.
Mechanical Adding Machines and mental arithmetic.
Typewriters
Making Fire
Oil Lamps
Winding the Alarm Clock
Licking Stamps
Winding up the Victrola
No TV
Twenty chocolate bars for a dollar
Standard Transmissions
Hand pumps
Outhouses
Shovelling Snow without a snow-blower
Waiting a week for a letter to be answered
No street lights
No airplanes
Silence!
Slates and Graphite Pencils
Fountain Pens and Ink wells and quills
Carbon Paper
Cutting Stencils to make copy
Single-speed bikes