IF you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!! (anyone who lived
during the 80's)
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 ...through
year 'round blizzards .. Carrying their younger siblings
on their backs ... to their one-room schoolhouse, where
they maintained a Straight-A average despite their full-time,
after-school job at the local textile mill ... where they
worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving
to death!
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.....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 MP3s or
Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to go 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 f@#* it all up!
You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download porn!
You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler"
at the 7-11! Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy sh*t like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone
and somebody else called they got a busy signal! 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 boss, your mom, a collections agent, your
drug dealer, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take
your chances!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Play station videogames with
high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like
"Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy
was a little square! You 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 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 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
20 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 ass and walk
over to the TV to change the channel and there was
no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on
Saturday Morning... D'ya hear what I'm saying!?! We had
to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards!
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 and
shake it over the stove like an idiot forever.
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!
during the 80's)
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 ...through
year 'round blizzards .. Carrying their younger siblings
on their backs ... to their one-room schoolhouse, where
they maintained a Straight-A average despite their full-time,
after-school job at the local textile mill ... where they
worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving
to death!
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.....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 MP3s or
Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to go 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 f@#* it all up!
You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download porn!
You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler"
at the 7-11! Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy sh*t like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone
and somebody else called they got a busy signal! 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 boss, your mom, a collections agent, your
drug dealer, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take
your chances!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Play station videogames with
high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like
"Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy
was a little square! You 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 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 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
20 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 ass and walk
over to the TV to change the channel and there was
no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on
Saturday Morning... D'ya hear what I'm saying!?! We had
to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards!
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 and
shake it over the stove like an idiot forever.
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!
