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

[Over-Head]

Wish I'd have had a DVD player like my 2yr old did on our last car trip

[007]

Originally Posted by arc

The TV we had when I was a kid had a remote control - me. If my dad wanted the channel changed, he would tell me to get up and do it. I also usually got in trouble for changing the channel too fast, since it would supposedly break the dial.

I tell my kids that now and I get this look -

Glad to know I was not the only one that heard that.

Originally Posted by Over-Head

Wish I'd have had a DVD player like my 2yr old did on our last car trip

No kidding.

[Jenson71]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Why do women not use those big space helmet hair dryers any more? I remember being a little kid and I'd sit at the beauty shop while my mom and the other women sat under those little head domes. In fact, my sister had a portable one that she used at home. What happened to female hair and/or styles where those aren't used any more?

My girlfriend says they are still used, like after someone gets their hair highlighted. But it seems like in the movies, the old ladies would sit under that all day.

[rrl308]

Rep. I feel your pain.