A little bit less of me!

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Funny email in my inbox.....

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 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 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 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 In vaders' 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 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 or go build a frigging 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!

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd

11 comments:

Michelle said...

OMG-that was too funny! And true :)

Robin said...

Holy crap.. that is hilarious!! I'm definitely older than 30, heck I'm older than 40 and I can soo relate. thanks so much for much needed laugh today. I think I might have to steal this and send it in a few emails to my family eith teenagers.. LOL

3D said...

Too true! At a dinner Sat. night with a bunch of gals, there was a pre-teen there and at times, she was so bored. I kept asking myself...when did I become the boring adult? AHHHHHHHHH!

Keep smilin!

Paul and Heather said...

Too funny!!!

Kayce said...

SO true! I love it. I used to play Pong on my Atari!!

Special K said...

Amen to that sistah!

Kim said...

TOO FUNNY!!!!
That is the truth..
Have a Great Week..

Snowflowers Mum said...

thats the best!

especially the rat bastard thing!

We had 2 channels where I grew up...TWO..AND, they didnt braodcast unitl 12pm, and shut off at 12am! no morning telly! Then in the mid eighties we got channel three! woohoo!

We had a 'party' line...no, it wasnt fun either...we 'shared' our telephone line, so if the other house down the street was talking on the phone...guess what...you had to WAIT! When we picked up the phone they'd say "busy" and we'd have to hang up! dark ages huh, nope, 1983 in New Zealand(admittedly, it was out by the beach and they did put more connections in a few years later...when they sealed the gravel road!)

good times, good times

Hayley

Ava's family said...

Very true!!! I find myself saying the same stuff to my kids that my mom said to me waaaaay back when....It kinda freaks me out when I catch myself! =)

Can't wait to meet you next month! =)

Kim N Jeff said...

This is just way too funny!!!

Karen said...

You're hilarious! But I can say that I'm over 40 so we didn't have Atari either. Also, only 3 channels that started sometime late afternoon or evening...& was usually over before 1am!!! That was UK & the British commonwealth!
Remember when calculators came out & only did addition & subtraction & cost a bazillion dollars? we had 2 use log books b4 that!!! (I skipped the slide rule era, somehow)
Karen