For the 30 and over crowd

[GoldenRivet]

Got this in my email today... If you are 30, or older, you might think this is hilarious!


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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... Barefoot.... BOTH ways…you all know the drill...

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 my 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!

so, here goes...
when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet.

If we wanted to know something, we asked a grown up, and you know what they said? "LOOK IT UP!" so...we had to go to the damned library and sift through a card catalog and research it for an hour in an encyclopedia!!

There was no email!!

If we wanted to communicate with friends on the other side of the country, we had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had pay 10 cents for a stamp and put it in a mailbox. The "reply" would take about a week and a half!

Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us.

As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our asses! Nowhere was safe! And, if you got an ass whoopin' down the street, there was another ass whoopin' waiting on you when you made it home!

There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike or ride your bike to the record store and shoplift it your damn self!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, but the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car.. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then sometimes the tape would come undone rendering it useless. eventually we had portable tape decks called "walkmans" and they were about the size and weight of a brick.

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!

There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one either. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOD !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

If you wanted to maintain contact with your friends you had to carry quarters around... for the pay phones!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent, the cops, a prank... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your damned chances!

We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With top of the line games like 'Space Invaders', 'pong' and 'Asteroids'.

In the game... your "guy" was a little colored square! Your enemies, were little different colored squares. 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!

kida like LIFE!

Dish Network???
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! because You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV sit next to it to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!!

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. and when they finally came on... your mom was vacuuming the floor with her giant hoover bag vacuum cleaner that sounded like a monster truck.
And we didn't have microwaves until much later on in life. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! You know, the big metal box in the kitchen with fire on top! Imagine that!

And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. No electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!

And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!

Why the hell do you think its called shot gun?
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled ass rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back the late 70s and early 80s!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd (or Close To It!)