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I got this forwarded from a dear friend of mine and thought this was so true, LOL So I thought I'd share it with you guys as well.


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 to school every morning...
Twenty-five miles...
Uphill...
BOTH ways...
Through year round blizzards...
Carrying their younger siblings on their backs...
To their one-room schoolhouse, where they maintained a straight-A
average...
Despite their full-time job...
at the coal mine...
Where they worked for 35 cents an hour...
Just to help keep their family from starving to death!

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...
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...
put it in the mailbox...
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 damn record store...
and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio...
then the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and fuck it all up!

And talk of about hardship?
You couldn't just download porn!
You had to steal it from your brother...
or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler"...
at the 7-11!
Those were your options!

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 ass!
Your guy was a little square!
You actually had to use your imagination!
And there w! ere 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 harder...
and faster...
and harder...
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...
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 bastards!

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 JiffyPop 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.
 
:rofl:

I'm over thirty, and that's hysterical! It's also TRUE!!!!!!!!!

We just :Owned: the under twenty crowd!
 
:rofl: I remember the Playboy, cigarettes and liquor. I always got somebody to buy it for me but it cost me extra $5.00 to $10.00 just to get Playboy or a 5th of liquor to drink etc. In those days they did not sell weed to kids. You had to get it through your older brother, cousin or a older friend. Today a kid of 12-13 years old will be able to walk up to a full grown adult and buy it on the spot and go smoke weed somewhere. :ugh:
 
I'm only 19, but I can remember doing most of those things. So :D

We didn't have the Internet until I was in high school. I sent real letters. I never got into the whole music piracy thing. Porn has never interested me. My family never and still doesn't have call waiting. My family didn't have caller ID until last year. I still don't have it at my place. My only game console for most of my life was an NES but I also played on my grandfather's 2600 a bit. I concede I've only been in a few theaters that didn't have stadium seating. We had cable, but only basic cable. We didn't get digital cable until I was a senior in HS. I still only have basic cable myself now, but I really don't watch TV either. We had a microwave... And microwave popcorn.
 
I think we all are feeling so noglastic (sp?) in here eh?
 
I remember buying chocolate bars for 25 cents when I was in public school.
I was born in 1968.

I really thought newspapers would be up to $3.00 a day when I got older!

And I never used a computer till I was 25, didn't use the Internet or email till 1998, and really really can't imagine how I made it through without it!
 
Ah I'm not 30 yet until few more years to go, but yeah heh i can remember the old simple days, cheaper candies, less channels on tv (2 channels to watch and tv programs shut down at 12am and on at 6am) (cartoons sat morning and sun morning), and not have to worry where to drink water, ie drinking it from the hose or tap outside of the house ...
 
MaxUFC said:
I was there, too. Great thread :)
Click to expand...

Thanks :D


Yeah Everything in this thread seems pretty much true. It makes me wonder how did we ever survive through that? :giggle:
 
darn I'm already into 30's I've survived 70's, 80's and 90's :lol:

that's so true in there ;)
 
I wonder what will kids say to their kids 30 years later.

I wonder if things will get much much easier in year 2030.
 
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