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

[CHENZ A!]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

Wow, we had window units back to 8 years old that I can remember.

Before that, we didn't have them or need them very bad in Colorado.

Pops thought the attic fan was good enough. The summers in KC are brutal if you don't have AC in your home.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by BigChiefDave

I'm 37. I remember living in Topeka when I was 9 or 10. I saw HBO for the 1st time. It was a little black or brown box with 3 buttons. I think you had to put the TV on 3, then push the middle button for HBO.

I had those push button boxes for cable also. I remember my first movie on HBO. Animal House. Missed it at the movie theatre. So we had a kegger and watched Animal House. What else was there to do in Springfield in 1980?

[dtebbe]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Yea, remember the "Good Old Days" when there was only one HBO and you got to see "Beastmaster" and "Six Pack" 152 times a month!

Don't forget Private Lessons!

DT

[kcxiv]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Yea, remember the "Good Old Days" when there was only one HBO and you got to see "Beastmaster" and "Six Pack" 152 times a month!

Bah, I used to look forward to some D.C Cab.




My friend i go hang out at has 2 daughters ages 5-7. I usually go hang out with her about 9 pm or so. Anyways, her 2 daughters constantly get up saying, mommy i am scared blah blah. You know the drama in order to stay up. My fav is mommy i am scared. Shit, if i tried to do that when i was a kid, my dad would say you have nothing to be scared of, if i gotta get up then you're going to have a reason to be scared. lol

Also, were kids hell even 20 years ago this ****ing hyper? Sometimes, i have to tell her daughters. Slow the hell down. Its like they are moving 100 miles an hour. I don't remember me or my sisters to be hyper like that.

[cardken]

Have you all forgotten the Mircowave sized VCR's thet loaded from the top and had a "remote" that was teatherd to the unit.

[Lzen]

I can definitely relate.
As for AC, we never had it when I was growing up. The best we had was some kind of cooling unit that rolled around on it's own wheels. You had to keep filling the thing with ice.

[Joie]

Aargh!! This is making me feel old. I turn thirty in a year!

We didn't have a VCR when I was little. We would rent it when we rented videos....at the gas station, not Blockbuster. My parents still don't have cable. When we take our kids to their house the kids are appalled that there are only 5 stations. That's two more than we had! We had air conditioning after I was 9, and got our first microwave when I was 10 or 11. My dad and I used to install our window AC with duct tape and cardboard. I never lived in a house with central air or a computer until I moved out. (Of course now they have both)

My summers were spent outside, sometimes so late that my dinner had to be reheated in the oven. I didn't WANT to stay in and watch TV or play video games. I would even sit in our apple tree for hours reading a book just to be outside. Of course, our Nintendo was the original version complete with Duck Hunt, not a Wii, and my brother and I happily played it on the 13" black and white TV in the kitchen. The big TV was always controlled by dad.

[stonedstooge]

I have a daughter that finally turns 18 in July. No respect, act like the world owes her, treats me like a dog unless she wants money, a lot to blame goes on the schools. I worked in public and private schools for 15 years. Parents wouldn't want their kids held accountable, School Boards wanted to dummy everything down so their own special ed kids could get good grades. Kids always had nice clothes and things that I never had in school. My jeans usually had those ironed on patches on them where I ripped them, sewed on buttons and rips in shirts, our town had a summer shopping extravaganca around town around July and that's when we got our school clothes and shoes for the next year. Spent most of the time outside playing. Didn't have all the toys so would end up playing with a stick or playing with my self. Things sure have changed. T.V. antenna picked up one station, St. Joe unless the weather was just right then could sometimes pick up a K.C. station or two. Things have gotten way to complex, even for the kids.

[Rasputin]

Cassette tapes would get jammed in the boom box so flustraiting yet I hate a CD that gets a scratch on it and it skips so unless they make a CD that doesn't ever skip then not much of an upgrade imo.

[milkman]

Originally Posted by stonedstooge

Didn't have all the toys so would end up playing with a stick or playing with my self.

Let me guess.

You still play with yourself, right?

[PastorMikH]

Just got this in an email, did a search, saw it had already been posted so I decided it was worth being bumped

[RJ]

Originally Posted by 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 ....

I did that in the early 70's.

Are there still paperboys?

If not......well, that would explain a lot.

[007]

Nice blast from the past and so damn true.

[PastorMikH]

Originally Posted by RJ

I did that in the early 70's.

Are there still paperboys?

If not......well, that would explain a lot.

Local rag here got rid of them last fall and started mailing out papers instead. One of the kids went to our church, got 8 cents a paper to throw them and he was one of the highest paid carriers. Don't see how it could be cost-effective to get rid of an 8 cent thrower for a postage stamp

[JOhn]

Originally Posted by PastorMikH

Local rag here got rid of them last fall and started mailing out papers instead. One of the kids went to our church, got 8 cents a paper to throw them and he was one of the highest paid carriers. Don't see how it could be cost-effective to get rid of an 8 cent thrower for a postage stamp

The local paper that comes out 2x week, still has a few paperkids trowing.