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Oh man - I wish I could have told my dad this in the 80s. I got grounded when I was ~13 or so - and my punishment was to rake up all the pine needles on our 2
by samstave 6y ago
Oh man - I wish I could have told my dad this in the 80s.
I got grounded when I was ~13 or so - and my punishment was to rake up all the pine needles on our 2 acre property in lake tahoe. The needles had created a blanket over the entire property which was ~3 inches deep.
It took me a month.
- ngold 6y agoOn a side note, same thing happened to me in the 90s. But instead of pine needles, it was a weed wacker and acres of waste high thistle weeds.
- samstave 6y agoOh yeah - and I was prohibited from the computer as well... So I couldn't play Populous or call into that BBS in San Jose to play the pit... However, I topped this grounding: I later called into a BBS in San Jose to play "the pit" and chat on PCLink so much that our long distance bill was $926 for a single month. I was grounded for a month due to that. My dad yelled at me a bit. Telling me that "computers will never do anything for you" After I ran intel's game lab for a bit and designed the Lucas Presidio data center.... my dad said to me "remember that time I said that 'Computers will never do anything for you' -- Well, I apologize" - it was one of the closest times I felt to him.