The Spoiled Under 30 Crowd
If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious.... If not,
send it to your parents. They'll think it's funny.
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 .. Yeah, yeah, yeah
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in
the world I was going to lay a bunch of nonsense like that on kids about
how hard I had it and how easy they've got it.
But now that...
I'm over (ahem...waaaaay 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 eas y. I
mean, compared to my childhood, you live in Utopia. And I hate to say it
but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it.
1. 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...in
the card catalog.. (Do you even know what a card catalog is?
Didn't think so.)
2. 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.
3. There were no MP3's or Napsters. If 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 would
usually talk over the beginning and mess it all up.
4. We didn't have fanc y stuff like Call Waiting. If you were on the
phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it.
5. 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.
6. We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with
high-resolution 3-D graphics. If we were lucky, we had Video Po ng and
later on the Atari 2600.
With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids' and the graphics were
horrible. 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.
7. 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 just
couldn't see.
8. Some of us had no cable...only 3 stations (maybe) that you had to go
outside and turn the antennae to be able pick up. Later on, we had cable
television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was
no onscreen menu. You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find
out what was on.
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. Then our parents turned them off after 2 hours so we could do "chores".
9. 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 or a pan with HOT oil
an d Real popcorn kernels and shake it all over the stove forever like an
idiot.
10. When we were on the phone with our friends and our parents
walked-in, we were stuck to the wall with a cord, a 7 foot cord that ran
to the phone - not the phone base, the actual phone. We barely had
enough length to sit on the floor and still be able to twirl the phone
cord in our fingers. If you suddenly had to go to the bathroom - guess
what we had to do..... Hang up and talk to them later.
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 1960 or 1970 or 1980.
Regards,
The over 30 Crowd
