>Oh my God this is soooooo true.
>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!

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!
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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 darn 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 darn 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!

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 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 a$$ 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 brats!

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!  Oh yea, and a  seatbelt was Mom throwing her arm across your chest every time she hit the brakes.

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

Adam Wartell2008-02-19 10:48:31

Ahhhhh.....da GOOD old days!
Thanx, Alan!

How about the grade school pictures of of you in your pimped out and super groovy Sears & Robuck leisure suit for kids.  

What about being outside hanging out with your pals all afternoon riding your bikes to the park (that place with grass and trees), really flying kites, drinking from the garden hose, and remembering to go home when the street lights came on, those were the days! Oh yes the closest thing to the internet I had was a CB radio.Aaron19762008-02-19 01:36:00

The TV show "Love, American Style" was a favorite of mine right after school.  Yeah, that's right, we had to rush home to watch our favorite shows.  No VCR's, no DVR's, no TIVO!  The TV had to "warm" up before you got a picture, even.

 Yep, a kid coming up in the 80's had it pretty darn ruff. Sure glad I

Heck, I remember when a string and two OJ cans was my primary communication system.

 Come to think of it, were cell phones on the market then? If they were, I don't think you could carry them in your pocket until at least the very late 80's.  My word, how did any of us survive?

My kids are gonna GET IT (!!!) when they come home from school today!