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Re: Today's thought
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...
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 fancy Sony Playstation video Games with High resolution 3-D Graphics! We had the Atari 2600 with gamesLike '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
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...
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 fancy Sony Playstation video Games with High resolution 3-D Graphics! We had the Atari 2600 with gamesLike '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
![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
I do try and collect antiques though (when I have the money) Usually I end up buying something from car boot sales. Oh! not sure you say car boot in the US. Think you may call them garage sales over their. 
