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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 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 library and look it up ourselves,
in the card catalog!!
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 blasted 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 krap 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 games with
high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "
Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics sucked! 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 ( I personally did not have cable for the longest time, 3
channels and 4 on a good day) 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 sorry behind 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 whatI'm saying!?! We had to
wait ALL WEEK for cartoons!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had
to use the stove or go build a freaking 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
