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
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 and look it up
ourselves, in the card catalogue!!

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! If 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 and the DJ would
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 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 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!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only m-net 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-bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we
had to use the stove ... 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


Also, Remember that gosh darn telephone cord that would tangle in
knots as you pulled it into another room for a bit of privacy??? That
was WHEN you could use the phone....my mom practically had it glued to
her ear and we had to wait our turn.




*sent by my even older, more hostile brother....:)