Wishful Homesteader
Monday, November 10, 2008
30 and over
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 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 @#*% 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'. Your guy was  a  little square!   You
actually had to use your imagination!!  And there were no multiple levels or
scree ns, 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 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 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  rat-butts!

                And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
something up we had to use the stove or go build a fringing 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



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