Saturday, August 16, 2025

Kids These Days 86

Haven't done anything on this page in a while. I have a lot of blogs. This is my oldest and I wanna start posting stuff again. I work at a high school watching kids wear what was in style when I was in school myself except there was far less funk and perfume. I was talking to my lady about 1-900 numbers and how they existed when I was growing up. One day my parents confronted me and my older brother (three years older than me) about a bunch of phone calls that were made to Woody Woodpecker. Yeah. The cartoon bird. Back in the 80's they used to play these commercials where you could call Woody, KITT from Knight Rider, Santa Claus, and so forth. I am sure it is just someone imitating these characters but people would shell out money to talk to them. And kids. But not me. I wanted to. I got my ass beat and I didn't even get to talk to Woody! I would say about 75% of the times I got my ass beat as a child was because of something someone else did. My brother later admitted that he was the one that made the calls. This wasn't once or twice. It was a stack of paper receipts showing how many times he had called. I'm still mad about this and none of the people involved in that tale are even alive.