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Laughing  I normally do not forward alot of junk... but I read this and found it mildly amusing and thought I would share it. So if you have read it I am sory, and if you have not enjoy.

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
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 d*mn 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 d*mn 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 d*mn 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 @#*% 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
games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the
Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and
'asteroids' and the graphics sucked ass! 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 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 rat-b@s#*rds!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
something up.We had to use the stove or go build a
frigging 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
  
    Posted by DouglasMB on 2007-11-07 09:37:43 | Rating: | Views: 245
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...or less than five minutes in the 70's!!!
i love these witty retrospectives of how things change over the years - it helps keep things in perspective ;o)
:o)
cheers!
Posted by  badlydrawnstickman  on 2007-11-07 09:43:59 
  
Everything you have said is so true and very funny looking at it.
Well done.xx
Posted by  bubblydi  on 2007-11-07 09:59:19 
  
there was hardly a garage-door-opener, that is what started making people lazy.
Posted by  RockIslandSlim  on 2007-11-07 10:00:41 
  
oh I did not write this lol it was something I got forwarded to me in an email.
Posted by  DouglasMB  on 2007-11-07 10:06:21 
  
That is so funny! I'm not 30 - yet but I remember a lot of life being like that too.
Posted by  Whitters  on 2007-11-07 14:15:51 
  
LOL
Posted by  ZEEBABE  on 2007-11-07 19:07:20 
  
Love it, thanks for this!
xo
Posted by  kentlass  on 2007-11-08 16:04:04 
  
hI ...
Posted by  adaraqs  on 2007-11-08 16:24:58 
  
so funny
I remember that foiled filled steaming popcorn, you had to comstantly shake the entire time, you felt like you were vibrating hours later, remember those straws, that had flavors in them, so when you drank the milk, you could have chocolate or strawberry, they tasted terrible, how about black jack gum, and skate keys, and if you were expecting a call, you had to stay home and if your mom was on the phone, tough, and when a girl wanted to have curls in her hair, she had to set it with dipity do and sit under the hair dryer for over an hour or worse, sleep in brush rollers over night...no electic rollers or curling irons or blow dryers, if you wanted a tan, you had to sit outside and bake, no tanning beds, or creams, and if you wanted to communicate with a friend from college, you had to write a letter, get the address, find an envelope, buy a stamp and go to the post office and mail it to them and then wait until they wrote back, and if you wanted privacy when you were having a phone converssation you had better have a long cord because there were no cordless phones, if you wanted to wear nylons you had to wear a girldle or garder belt and those things that hung down made permanent dents in your legs and lets not even memnion what women had to wear once a month ...um sorry...I dont remember anything, Im way too young for stuff like this
Posted by  roe  on 2007-11-17 20:30:24 
  
um yeah .... what badly drawn stick man said - minus a decade! lol
Posted by  scotslad60  on 2007-11-19 07:17:25 
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