the spoiled under-30 crowd!!!
By nana1944
@nana1944 (1364)
United States
July 29, 2007 4:20am CST
This so true and I wanted to share it. I got this in an email from a friend but I cleaned it up to be able to post it here.
THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
If you are 30 or older you will think this is
hilarious!!!!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with
their tedious diatribes about how hard things were
when they were growing up; what with walking
twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill
BOTH ways .. yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,
there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of
crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how
easy they've got it! But now that... I'm over the ripe
old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and
notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I
mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a dam
Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't
know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The
Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go
to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the
card catalog!!
There was no email! ! We had to actually write
somebody a letter ... with a pen! Then you had to walk
all the way across the street and put it in the
mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to
steal music, you had to hitchhike to the dam record
store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off
the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning
and screwed it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If
you were on the phone and somebody else called they
got a busy signal, that's it!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It
could be your school, your mom, your boss, your
bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you
just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take
your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video
games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the
Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and
"asteroids" and the graphics sucked a**! Your guy was
a little square! You actually had to use your
imagination! And there were no multiple levels or
screens, it was just one screen forever!
And you could never win. The game just kept
getting harder and harder and faster and faster until
you died! . Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such
thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same
height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat
in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just
screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that
was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen
menu and no remote control! You had to use a little
book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
You were screwed when it came to channel surfing!
You had to get off your a** and walk over to the TV to
change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network
either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday
Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait
ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little
brats!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to
heat something up . we had to use the stove or go
build a frigging fire ... imagine that! If we wanted
popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and
shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids
today have got it too easy. You're spoiled.
You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in
1980!
Regards,
The over 30 Crowd
2 responses
@easymoney75503 (1702)
• United States
29 Jul 07
roflmfao!!!!! that is so true i tell my kids that all the time. they go outside and come in and say its boring and want to go read or listen to the radio or just see what i am doing lol. i tell them all the time you have a pool, trampoline, volleyball, bocca, horseshoes, tetherball, crocket, i mean the list goes on and you are bored when i was a kid we had a stick and some rocks and pine cones lol. we never went inside and said its boring we had to use out imaginations. now kids dont have that cause they have so much other stuff they dont have to think up games and such. anyways. i miss the old days when kids were kids lol.