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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, through year 'round blizzards carrying their younger



siblings on their backs to their one-room schoolhouse, where they



maintained a Straight-A average, despite their full-time after-school



job at the local textile mill, where they worked for 35 cents an hour



just to help keep their family from starving to death!!





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 twenty-five, 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 - we wanted to



know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves!





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 MP3s or Napster. If you wanted to steal music,



you had to go 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 screw it all up!





You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download ****!



You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a! copy of "Hustler"



at the 7-11!



Those were your options!





We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone



and somebody else called they got a busy signal!



And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang,



you had no idea who was...It could be your boss, your mom, a collections



agent, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your



chances, mister!





We didn't have any fancy Sony Play station videogames 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 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 faster until you



died! Just like LIFE!





When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium



seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy 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 20



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 rear and



walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon



Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning... d'ya hear



what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bustards!





We didn't have microwaves... if we wanted to heat something up we had to



use the stove... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn we had to use that



stupid jiffy pop and shake it over the stove like an idiot forever.





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 5 minutes back in 1980 !!!



........and you could actually find a job if you wanted too!!!!!!

Kim

Ok Im from 1977 and agree on ALL of your statements.

You bastard, now I feel OLD too.



1963 ehh, man you could be my mom.

KingFD

When I had my commodore 64 and I had to wait for the tape to load for a half hour, and if it didn't load properly you had to do it all again.



Ah yes those were the days.

j9fd3s

i remember my dad buying a sled, a coffee can, and mail ordering some electronic doohickey, and we had hbo. it was THE cable channel.



i remember discoing around the stoners living room, in the 70's! mr stoner wore plaid bellbottoms, the kids wore striped velour sweaters.



i remember mom used to drop us off at the pool around noon in the summer, and pick us up around 4-5pm. so we'd run around in the sun all day, all summer with no sunscreen



i rmember sometime in the 80's dad brought home an ibm pc jr, it took like 15minutes to warm up

Baldy

When did microwaves become widely used?

Sinful7

Haha, you're old.

j9fd3s

sometime in the 80's

rowtareh

remote control was invented in the late 50's also.



and how the **** could you travel 25 miles uphill both ways?

Seppuku

It was actualy only 2 houses down but they found it more fun to walk 25 miles uphill and slide back down in the morning and then again in the evening. Thats what they get for not having internet **** to entertain themselves with.

sidewinderx7

When I was a kid, we did things like ride bikes, play sports, be creative and build things, etc etc... activities that built coordination, motor skills, brain power (logic), and were healthy!



Kids no adays come home from school, sit their asses on a computer and talk to their friends on shitastic websites like myspace for hours. Go outside you little *****! Thats why 76% of americans are clinically obese. You scum bags! :-D