um i was thinking about the uh the topic you know while they were searching for a person
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and uh while i was thinking about it i just flipped on my TV
and it was funny because i thought about today how so much of
i mean i even my social life is renting movies or sitting at home and you know watching a rented movie or watching a movie on TV
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yeah
and just now it's so i mean every everything is just so uh easy that you almost don't have to think of things to do anymore
yeah
you know what i mean
i do and like even even little kids who watch like Sesame Street and everything's really fast paced and they don't have to to sit down and concentrate on one thing for a long time and
yeah
i mean i remember when i was little my friends uh my parents i'm sorry would just go over people's houses and just sort of you know sit and talk
yeah
and before TV and all that people would sit and listen to the radio and and that i mean life has just changed and become so much more modernized and uh it's really pretty incredible
yeah
yeah just the other day i uh some AM station or something had a um
like a radio show just like the old days you know it was like from the old days and i was thinking gosh that's i mean because you have to imagine what everybody looks like and you don't understand it until you actually hear it and have to do it and it's i mean you know it's just too bad that everybody has everything fed to them
oh really
i know
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and you know when you think about oh i was watching reruns of Happy Days the other day and um
to think that that was the social life of teenagers to go to uh you know a a place like Arnold's and order a soda pop
yeah
and uh you know sit and hang out and and you know just the dress codes the whole atmosphere the whole attitude of teenagers and social life was totally different then
yeah i mean now we always have to do something new or better or more exciting can't just sit around and talk for awhile you know
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i know
it's too bad
i know and also um i think that it's so much more dangerous for people now
yeah
i mean before you could go out and and you know you didn't have all the drunk drivers and you didn't have to worry about your kids getting into the wrong crowds and this and that
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and now that's really a problem
yeah it really is
you know but what what do you do most of the time for social activities
um just
well i'm fifteen so
oh okay
oh just a lot of times we do sit around and
because like uh i'm really glad that i'm in like uh the classes uh like honors classes and so it's like what's really good about that is that you meet people who really are interested in in talking about things and discussing world issues and
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yes
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it just and it makes me sick to go to school and know people who just that's all they do is like go out and you know try to go find a new guy or something it's just so immature and oh just futile you know
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yeah i i definitely agree
um are your you can't drive yet then can you
no i'll be driving in a few months
okay oh in a few months you said oh that's good well you're going to find that driving changes your social life completely
yeah
yeah
i mean suddenly when you're free to go where you want to go it's amazing i mean i don't know if you'll always have a car around that's a different issue
yeah
but um uh just even being able to go to a movie when you want and and not relying on somebody else it's really pretty nice
uh-huh
yeah it is
but um
one thing i love to do and maybe it's just because i like to eat
but one of my favorite things to do with friends is just go out and try a new restaurant
yeah
and uh and i don't know just go and i don't know try like a a new ethnic restaurant you know Indian food or or something like that
yeah
and i think so often we do social things like you were saying you know going out and picking up guys or or whatever social things that don't really
yeah
are that aren't really social like when you go to a movie you're not sitting and talking to anybody
yeah
and when you go to a bar it's usually so loud or so crowded that you even that you can't talk to anybody
yeah
yeah
you know um and going out to dinner i think is a nice way you're out you're out of the house um
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i think playing games is something that my friends and i love to do
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we've um we've bought Pictionary you probably know that and i don't know some other games and um and i know this sounds kind of corny but
yeah
it was it does sound corny but it's so much fun
it really is
and if you get the right group of friends
yeah
they have a good attitude about it then you know you can have a pretty good time
yeah you really can
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awesome
i personally think that i should have been born in the fifties because i do i do love that era and uh
yeah
and i really think that i could have gotten into i don't know the the music and the lifestyle and um things just seemed so much easier didn't they
yeah yeah
you know it just seems like you didn't have so much to worry about
i know everybody's i mean everybody's always busy and worried and so many problems people don't just sit down and you know just talk and know everything's going to be okay
yeah
yeah that's true
well who knows maybe another maybe the the twenty first century will bring a whole new type of social life
yeah yeah things go in cycles you know maybe
yeah
i get very frustrated when i go over to a friend's house and all they want to do is sit and play computer games
oh yeah
you know i i don't know if you're familiar with any of them but
they're they're fun you know and they're they're you know not bad to like take up some time but they just are so um exclusive
uh-huh
oh yeah
you know you get two people in front of a computer playing a computer game and the the next room could be on fire
and they'll never know it you know
oh that 's the truth
but
well it was nice talking to you
yeah nice talking to you
yeah and gosh i hope you guys cool off down there
yeah
okay
talk to you later bye
all righty bye-bye
