This is funny and unfortunately all true!
If you are 30 or older, you will think this is
hilarious!!!! If not, send it to your parents! They'll think it's funny!
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 heck 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 dang Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got
it!
1. When I was a kid, we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the dang
library and look it up ourselves... In the card catalog!! (Do you even know what a card catalog is? Didn't think
so !)
2. 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!
3. There were no
MP3's or Napsters! You had to wait around all day to tape music off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over
the beginning and mess it all up!
4. 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!
5. 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!
6. 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 were horrible! 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!
7. 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 oldbroad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't
see, you were just screwed!
8. Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and
there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
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!
9. And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we had to
use the stove or go build a fire ..... Imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid JiffyPop
thing or a pan with HOT oil and Real popcorn kernels and shake it all over the stove forever like an idiot.
10.
When we were on the phone with our friends and our parent s walked-in, we were stuck to the wall with a cord, a 7
foot cord that ran to the phone - not the phone base, the actual phone. We barely had enough length to sit on the
floor and still be able to twirl the phone cord in our fingers. If you suddenly had to go to the bathroom - guess
what we had to do..... Hang up and talk to them later.
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
