Spoiled 30 and under crowd :)

[G&NSalty425]

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
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... barefoot...
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! 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'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 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 I mag ination!! 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!


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!
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
(Send this to someone you'd like to make smile,
Whether they are under 30 or not.
)

 

[artguy1]

You were lucky!

All I had to play with were Lincoln Logs. I had to work when I was a kid.

No really, I thought your description was great, pretty funny (AND ACCURATE TOO)...nice job!

 

[G&NSalty425]

Thanks, I recieved this as a email so I had to share I thought it was pretty funny

 

[returnofsid]

Gotta be careful....some won't know what a Card Catalog is....or Records...and heck, I grew up in the country, moved out when I was 18, but up until I was 20, the house phone was still on a "party line" shared by 3 other homes. That meant others on the party line could pick up and listen to your phone conversation...AND, good luck actually having the line free to actually place a call. Especially since 2 of the 4 homes had teenagers...myself included...lol.

 

[G&NSalty425]

I remember Saturday mornings watching cartoons it was the day anything good was on lol.

 

[artguy1]

Yeah Returnofsid,
Our phone was the "3-ring" on the party line. I haven't thought about that in a while! You could tell which family was getting the call once you heard the particular ring.

I grew up outside of Missoula Montana, 7 miles out on a dirt road which was a Rural Route, no addresses. Just address letter to...Name, Route 5, Missoula, MT...I guess the postman just knew the people on the 12 mile route, that's where the road ended. Tough drive in the winter, we sure didn't get mail every day either...like twice a week.

But ooooh the fishin'...50 feet from our back door, wild brook trout, cutthroat and rainbows...every day after school and all summer long

 

[DonW]

We were hi tec. Had beta vcr, laser disc movies and a giant 12ft satalite that never worked. My stepfather was VP sperry rand so we had a computer back in the 70's. The computer took an entire basement and ran of these huge platters that we used to swipe and recycle for beer money. When i say beer I mean "beer" that was what its was generic beer beer in a black and white can. That was when life was easy.

Don

 

[Reefdaddy1]

Or how about when you did get a phone of your own it started with a name ie tilden-4-0000, or something like that. but somethings were better, like 25 cent a gallon gas 35 cent smokes, a lid was only 25 bucks( if you did that) and the drinking age in most states was 18. But all in all it is much better today for kids then back when I was that age.

 

[artguy1]

We were hi tec. Had beta vcr, laser disc movies and a giant 12ft satalite that never worked. My stepfather was VP sperry rand so we had a computer back in the 70's. The computer took an entire basement and ran of these huge platters that we used to swipe and recycle for beer money. When i say beer I mean "beer" that was what its was generic beer beer in a black and white can. That was when life was easy.

Don

Awesome Don, Generic Beer! Wow, that's a flashback...who do ya think actually made that beer anyhow?

 

[danno14]

outside of Missoula Montana, 7 miles out on a dirt road

Can (sorta) relate..... mom grew up in Cut Bank and I would go visit family every few summers. For a kid from the "city", it sure was boring! I never understood(or fell for) how my moron cousins could get such a kick from cow-tipping. We laugh now at how foolish they felt when I blew them off

 

[Reefdaddy1]

We were hi tec. Had beta vcr, laser disc movies and a giant 12ft satalite that never worked. My stepfather was VP sperry rand so we had a computer back in the 70's. The computer took an entire basement and ran of these huge platters that we used to swipe and recycle for beer money. When i say beer I mean "beer" that was what its was generic beer beer in a black and white can. That was when life was easy.

Don

How about red, white and blue beer? Remember those?

 

[artguy1]

Can (sorta) relate..... mom grew up in Cut Bank and I would go visit family every few summers. For a kid from the "city", it sure was boring! I never understood(or fell for) how my moron cousins could get such a kick from cow-tipping. We laugh now at how foolish they felt when I blew them off

Ya, you could say it was boring but if the parents ever heard that there was plenty of wood to be split or work to be done...needless to say we learned not to be "bored"

 

[DonW]

How about red, white and blue beer? Remember those?

I think that stuff was by Pabst. It was sure rough the morning after. Stay out all night drinking that stuff and spend the next morning stuck in the head.

Don