Ya know, I'm not even 30 yet (27) but i got this sent to me by a friend and what do ya know I feel the same way evey time I look at my daughter . . . or even the kids in my undergrad classes. (Thats why I give em assignments that make em actually go to the library on campus to do research )
THE WAY IT WAS!!!!!
This makes my day a little better...
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 ....through year 'round blizzards. Carrying their younger
siblings on their backs ... to their one-room schoolhouse, where they
maintained a Straight-A average, despite their full-time, after-school job at
the local textile mill ... where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep
their family from starving to death! 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 damn 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 damn 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 messed 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 Play station video games with
high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like
"Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked ! 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 ass
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 ######s!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up ...
we had t o 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!