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 any fancy Sony Playstation video
Games with high-resolution 3-D graphics!
We had the Atari 2600! With 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!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then
that was only Mnet 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
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