Over or Under 30?
I received this in an email and I thought it was pretty funny and so true! Comments or additions, anyone?
THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
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.
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 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 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 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 mess 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!
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!
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 lady 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 on screen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were out of luck when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your butt 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!
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 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 Crowd
9 Comments:
ha ha
love that!!!
i am below thirty
but my parents never tell me that...
By linkinparksid, Mar 05 08 11:31 AM
I was born in 1980. I remember some of those time with regret that kids today will never know how to work a phonograph, or use their imaginations. I know, I sound so old huh?
By rayven80, Mar 05 08 5:43 PM
LOL I know what you mean.. I was born in 1960 and I've told my kids a number of times that we didn't have pc games on today's level of sophistication, heck, we didn't have a PC! They look at me with a sort of pitying, 'oh your poor deprived childhood!' expression which just cracks me up because I have great memories.
My parents seldom gave me this line except very occasionally dad would point out how easy it was for me when I was a student. He was working a full day in city hall (after dropping out of grammar school to work & help support the family and then doing national service) and the four sets of letters after his name he earned at night school in his 'spare time', enabling him to reach the top in his career.
By Yaarbiriah, Mar 06 08 7:28 PM
Kids today wouldn't know how to use a dial telephone! What about being able to outside to play and you had to go home when the street lights came on? And the school bus didn't stop right in front of every kids house. Kids today, I tell ya.
(jiffy pop! Oh the house fires!)
By leelee63, Mar 11 08 8:10 AM
I haven't any children yet but I had great delight in telling other peoples children how hard it was in my day,thanks for making me laugh and also reminding me how did I cope without the Internet and my microwave.Oh just remembered my first cable box it was on the window ledge and I had a dial that I had to turn to letters from the alphabet to get a channel,hee hee.
By spankarella, Mar 11 08 11:27 PM
Thanks for all your comments! I find myself sounding more like my parents all the time! :)
By AnneBonney, Mar 12 08 5:20 PM
Would that really be a bad thing Anne?
I just hope my kids remember all the chocolate brownies I baked when I'm old and grey!
By helenat, Mar 13 08 8:48 AM
I love it. I can relate with most of it. When we dialed a phone it was rotary and you always screwed up half way through dialing.
By fredfrank, Jul 10 08 10:59 PM
I remember all those things - I was born in 1957, and I learn't to do 'posh' writing with one of those pens you dip in an inkwell!
By cyberhen, Oct 20 08 10:25 AM