For the over 30 crowd

[acasas4]

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!
If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

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 catalo! g!!

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 would 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 gameswith h igh-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600!
With games like " Space Invaders" and "asteroids"
and the graphics were horrible! 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 was 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 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
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 bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
something up, we had to use the stove or go build a
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

[BigRedChief]

nice. rep

[chagrin]

I'm 38, we had the atari and all that but we also had a microwave when I was very young; cable TV as well, when I was like, 7

[Demonpenz]

i used to have to drive around and look for parties instead of txting ha

[mlyonsd]

We got our first color tv when I was 14 and air conditioning at 15.

[acasas4]

Originally Posted by chagrin

I'm 38, we had the atari and all that but we also had a microwave when I was very young; cable TV as well, when I was like, 7

I'm 43 dammit.

[ROYC75]

Amazing what wisdom and knowledge does to a person when they grow up ?

[pr_capone]

Originally Posted by mlyonsd

We got our first color tv when I was 14 and air conditioning at 15.

At least your family had their priorities straight.

Game System = First

Air Conditioning = Second

LOL

[morphius]

Honestly, I'll take my being able to run around the entire neighborhood without being able blocked by fences, sledding in the back yards were possible, because there was no fence.

And we were tougher, we didn't learn to do things like riding the bike with pads and helmets, oh no, we did it the hard way with concussions and street rash.

As for games, I remember playing a game called night rider on the apple, all it had was lines for the outside of the road, everything else was black, and you had to make all the turns and could barely tell what was coming up, and I played it a lot. Sad.

[pr_capone]

I had a baseball game for my old atari where the runners on base would occasionally run out towards the outfield for no particular reason.

lol

I miss those days.

Pitfall, though, was the shit. *LOVED* that game.


In fact, I have an old 2600 with about 14 games sitting in my attic ATM.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by acasas4

If we wanted popcorn, we had to use
that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove
forever like an idiot.

I remember my mom popping popcorn on the stove in a pan with some oil. Pretty yummy

Then i remember the air poppers and those other oily popcorn poppers that looked like domes.

Pretty funny read. Good stuff.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by morphius

Honestly, I'll take my being able to run around the entire neighborhood without being able blocked by fences, sledding in the back yards were possible, because there was no fence.

And we were tougher, we didn't learn to do things like riding the bike with pads and helmets, oh no, we did it the hard way with concussions and street rash.

As for games, I remember playing a game called night rider on the apple, all it had was lines for the outside of the road, everything else was black, and you had to make all the turns and could barely tell what was coming up, and I played it a lot. Sad.

[boogblaster]

Things are easier now ... thank god .. I remember back in the early 60s getting up at 5 am walking my paper-route in the rain-snow-etc.. kids today don't know what 5 am is ....

[Rain Man]

We had to get our pornography at 7-11's! We had to say things like, "Um...can I have that magazine back there? No, not that one. Left. Left. No, that one. The one with the two women on the front. No, not that one, the one below it. Where the two women are wrestling. Yeah, that one. Thanks."

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we had a microwave