The Spoiled Under 30 Crowd

[larrymeyer]

I am getting old!
This is the way it was ? help me out here!!! WARNING ?
some language may be offensive to some.

Subject: The Spoiled Under 30 Crowd

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

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...
barefoot... 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
to the end of 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 end and f 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 ever!

And you could never win. The game just kept getting
Harder and harder and Faster and faster until you died!
Just like LIFE!

You had to use a Little book called a TV Guide to find
out what was On! Only 4 stations and 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 ...WASH the pots and dishes,
Imagine that!
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!




feel free to add to this, your parents would
&
send it to your favorite sons and daughters

[1861]

or 1 min. in the 50,s .

[dman]

or 1 min. in the 50,s .

Ditto !
It would seem that all our good intentions for our children has turned on us!
Sad to say,It's our own fault!!!!!!!!

[Pennywise]

Don't forget cell phones.If I was out and needed to call home I would have to pony up a dime and find a phone booth! And if someone called for me while I was out I would'nt find out about it until I got home, And THAT was only IF my mom decided to write the message down.

[Mabuz]

Haha, I'm 26 and appreciated most of that. I got to experience most of the "new fangled" stuff mentioned there at a young age, but I still remember trying to make myself a tape of the newest, coolest music out by holding my tape recorder up to the TV when VH1 was on.

Good one.