for the over 30 crowd.....

I JUUUUUUST barely made it into this one!

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 25 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 30, 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 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 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!
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! 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!



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 & there was no cartoon network either! You could only seecartoons 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 or go build a frigging fire... imagine that! If we wanted
popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing & 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 5 minutes back in 1980!




Regards,

The over 30 Crowd