The Over 30 Crowd

[WV Hillbilly]

>
> 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 yada,
> yada, yada!
>
> And I remember promising myself
> that when I grew up, there was no
> way in heck 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 darn
> 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 darn 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 darn 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' and the graphics
> sucked! 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 sol !
>
> Sure, we had cable television, but
> back then that was only like 15
> channels and there was no onscreen
> 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 butt 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 brats
>
> And we didn't have microwaves, if
> we wanted to heat something up we
> had to use the stove or go build a
> dang 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! Oh yea, and
> a seatbelt was Mom throwing her
> arm across your chest every time
> she hit the brakes .
>
> Regards,
> The over 30 Crowd

 

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[beach boy]

and those were the good ole days

 

[truckinbutch]

When I think back to a Coke,2 bubble gums and a Moon Pie for less than 10 cents and Elvis being banned from local radio as 'SINNFULLL'!.....
Y'all make me feel old.
Guess cause I am.......Go figger.

 

[RON (PA)]

WV,
You did bring back some memories.

In my house, we had to put the TV on early "to let it warm up" at least that is what Dad said. A self propelled lawn mower was you pushing it. There were no such things as CD or DVD, we had a tape recorder and if you were lucky, you had an 8 track player. No computer to type on, if you were lucky, you knew somebody that had a typewriter. As much as we did not like our parents for being tough on us as kids, I think as a whole, we turned out pretty good. Mom and Dad were right.

 

[WV Hillbilly]

I was about 12 when we got our first tv . It had been turned on & warmed up to many times
already . Dad bought it at an auction sale . Got 2 channels , sometimes only one . Transister radios
came into existance when I was in the 6th grade . I got a whupping for playing one in school . We
rocked & rolled to the music of a record player & in my teens an 8 track .
When I was in grade school a bottle of pop was a dime & all candy bars was a nickel except
for almond joy & mounds . They were a dime . Candy bars was also larger than they are now . In
high school cigs were 30 cents a pack except for a couple cheap brands that was a quarter . When
I started driving gas was 30 cents a gallon except for a couple discount places where it was 26 to
28 cents a gallon . I could go on & on but I won't .

 

[truckinbutch]

The 'slick' pages of the Sears catalogue wouldn't really take care of the paperwork but they still beat corn cobs.
Throw rugs were the path from the bed to the slop jar during the winter so that your bare feet didn't freeze to the linoleum and the ballpeen hammer beside the jar was to break the ice so you didn't splatter your feet and the floor.
The quarter inch of snow on top of your quilts come morning was only what blew in under the shake roof during the night.That same roof hardly leaked a drop during the hardest rain in the summer.
You could double the life of that ten cent poke of Bugler rollyerown with an equal ammount of dry corn silk and actually improve the taste.
Fun for the rural mail carrier was meeting you and several of your friends on bicycles at a mudhole and splashing all of you as he zoomed by.
Fun for you and your mudsplattered friends was livetrapping a big boar coon that night,teasing him by poking him with sticks or whatever until just before the mail carrier came up the road the next day.
That's when you put the PO'ed coon in the mail box and hid to watch the show.
I have it on good authority that PO'ed coons have a penchant for driving abandoned mail carrier vehicles into the first available tree.
Rural mail carriers who lose a vehicle under such circumstances are also likely to start carrying candy to make friends with the local heathens.

 

[WV Hillbilly]

Things weren't all good. I had a paper route for a shopping ads paper in 1963. I delivered 120 papers one day a week. My first paycheck for the month was $1.08 Talk about child exploitation!

Dang , how long did you keep that job ?