*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 *
*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 catalogue!!*
*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!
Stamps were 10 cents!*
*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 ass! No where was safe!*
*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 @#*% 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 the
Tape would come undone.cause that's how we rolled dig?*
*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 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'. 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! *
*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! 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 rat-bastards!*
*And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat*
*something up we had to use the stove ... Imagine that!*
*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 or before!*
*Regards,*
*The over 30 Crowd*
Thanks Paul
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