too funny and off the internet (showing my age...)

By freudian-slip

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....:)

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  • blue On Friday, April 15, 2016, blue (1454)By person wrote:

    Hahah ahhh the good ole days... Analog at its best. This was a welcome treat; it really brought me back. All smiles. ~b

  • Narcissa On Saturday, November 15, 2008, Narcissa (404)By person wrote:

    I do remember those times and they were great times. It was a time (like it was said here) of imagination. We had to play outside. There was no wondering if you'd get kidnapped. It was a time that you could walk down to the drug store and buy an icecream cone for a quarter. We built forts in the hills of California than stroll through the pumpkin patch and play hide and seek....yes I think we had it much better than will ever know. I don't envy the youth today.

  • Alanarchy On Saturday, November 15, 2008, Alanarchy (1200)By person wrote:

    I'm only twenty three, but we were dirt poor, so I can relate to quite a bit of this. So much today is about dumming things down, or eliminating effort. Kids today don't know real chores. I wish I could take some of my younger relatives back in time to when I was twelve, and gramps would have me out chopping wood, or clearing brush, mowing our four acres *with a pusher. NOT exagerating O.o mucking out stalls (that's right kids. All goddamned morning, ankle deep in horse shit!) Whenever I hear someone whinning about it being their night for dishes, I want to laugh. Or find them a room to paint.

  • A former member wrote: you had a push moer too? my aunt have one ith the rotary blades. and thank god it was dull i used to push it in flip flops cause it was the summer and my feet always got caught. or id smack my toes in it playing war with my cousins. that damned thing, i'm surprised i stiill have toes!

  • A former member wrote: yep... and I don't know about others, but I actually had to work and save to buy my first car, for $700, which was a pile of shit I had to learn how to fix if I wanted to drive. But then, smokes and gas were both under a buck. And at 15, you could stand outside a Dairy Mart and get someone to buy ya a six pack for the $4 you stole outta mom's purse :)

  • estherbell On Saturday, November 15, 2008, estherbell (53)By person wrote:

    lol that brought back some memories...i somehow miss those days though...the glory of the 80s yeahhh.oh and i loved writing letters.i have a pretty handwriting,a shame i havent used it in ages..:)

  • freudian-slip On Saturday, November 15, 2008, freudian-slip (239)By person wrote:

    hey bunny...it was "smartbeep" and everyone had to have one. like your some kind of dumb ass coke dealer...what's the use of a pager when you had no cell phone??? LOL (still picturing guys looking at their pagers standing in front of the payphones)

  • freudian-slip On Saturday, November 15, 2008, freudian-slip (239)By person wrote:

    didn't say it...just posted it off an email my bro forwarded to me today. had no author listed. an effin riot huh?

  • A former member wrote: well said my freind. ~ hdb.

  • A former member wrote: I remember way back when the cable box had a little push button on it for each channel. Bugger. Count me among the older crowd here I guess.

  • A former member wrote: oh i forgot some, those heavy ass cordless phones. >_< why!? or what about the old school phone you actually had to dial? my fingers always got caught in it. the rotary i think there called lol, idk. or i remember pagers, sadly. hehe, i remember everyone thinking they were so cool because they had a pager. my dad had a a-trak player then cassettes forever. he didnt sswitch to cd's til around 2001, lmao. tape always caught, damned things.

  • A former member wrote: lmfao! you for got the console tv. god i hated that thing, damned knob was off and you had to use either a penny or a damned butterknife or screw ddriver. ye ole phillip. or what about the damned woody wagon with the hump in the middle?! my ass still hurts! lmao i remember all o f this stuff and i'm only 18. hehe, i feel all complete now, hehe

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