The Spoiled Under-30 Crowd!!!

[Blaster*MFA*]

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 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! If 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 usually
talk over the beginning and @#*% 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! 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 was 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 wimps! >> >> >> >>

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's crowd

[Brock Sherwood]

lmao

[eight]

lol

[Crypt*MFA*]

thats so dam true!! but dont worry when are kids have kids they will have something to say about how hard it was in the 2000'S

[Mirkwoods*MFA*]

LOL, nice. Our kids kids will be like hooked into a gyroscope with diodes coming out of their heads and our kids will be like, we used to have to use a mouse and keyboard to access the internet... and we only had 200 mps connections! Spoiled wimps!

What does he mean by no remote controls though? They had those in the 50s. We might not have had them my whole life but certainly by the mid to early 80s. Before that we had two dials for VHF and UHF... what was that crap all about?

Nice one Blaster!

[Ronbo*MFA*]

good find Blaster....I wonder what those of us that grew up in the 60's and 70's would say?

Atari 2600? there wasn't such a thing in most homes until I was an adult!!

[Kirk]

Man, I am older than you, and I had most of that. I must have been spoiled. lol

I had a remote control (for the big TV in the family room .... and by big, I mean 25") ... but my little 13" B&W TV in my bedroom had no remote, and did have the 2 dials for UHF & VHF. But at least I could plug it in in the car with the SUPPLIED adapter.

And yeah, I had a 2600, and later an Intelivision, and later a sega genisis, and a comodore 64, then 128, then amiga, then PC10, etc. But I only played the damn thing when friends were over, and even then only for an hour or so. Maybe an hour on the weekend .... And the graphics still sucked on those too (the genisis was OK)

And if I missed the school bus, I had to walk. And it WAS almost 3 miles. And it did SEEM to be uphill the whole way. And if I screw up, I had to pay the price. And nobody gave a damn about my feelings ... the rules were the rules. And I was the one who had to adjust to fit into the rules, the system didn't change to accommodate me.

You are so right ... this was a good find.

I was discussing a few of those points with my kids just the other day.

Oh yeah .... don't forget about the cordless phone thing ..... we had 1 phone in the kitchen ... with a 5000 foot long cord that you had to untangle before you could use the damn phone. And we had it lucky, my parents had a phone in their bedroom, and one in the basement (also with a super long cord). And we did have a microwave, but it was the new fangled device, and probably cost my father 2 weeks pay, or more to buy the damn thing. Now you can buy one for $25 .....