The Spoiled Under 30 crowd

[bubba]

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 my 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 across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take, like, a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!


Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If 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! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone. Cause - that's how we rolled, dig?

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 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! 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! NO REMOTES!!!

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 Brats
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove! 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 or before!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

[Larry]

rotary phones.

pay phones, no cel.

We had a few things better.......cane sugar pops, Bubs Daddy gum, and no aids.

[johnnyfizz]

.....AND WE LIIIKED IT!!!!

[collecture]

I had to laugh the other day. Until I found time to run a cable to my shop, I hooked up the small TV in there with rabbit ears to it so I could get local channels. My 8-year-old saw the antenna on the counter when I pulled them out and said "What's that?"

[GvtProprty]

My wife and I were cleaning out a closet several years ago and pulled out an LP. Our daughter who was four at the time said "wow, that's a big CD ROM!"
 

[Yarochrehc]

How about real to real tape recorders, vinyl LP & 45 records, 3 cent stamps, 20 cents a gallon regular gas, and believe it or not, paved roads were concrete, no black top, a soda was 10 cents, if you wanted something you worked and saved you money until you could buy it. I could go on and on, but I'm starting to feel old. Bummer.

[cdc1960]

and the only `time shifting`was done by Captain Kirk... if you wanted to watch a show you had to be home... remember no seat belts in the back, lap belts up front, ignition keys on the dash, 8 tracks, going down the street to a friends house to watch `colour TV`...typewriters, metal oil cans that you opened with a spout, full service gas stations, soda came only in bottles, and Apollo launches evey year.... now I`m feeling old...

[halehouse]

When I was a kid, we actually had to push or pull to open the door at the supermarket (a "supermarket" by 1970's standards).  I remember, probably in the late 70's, going to a store that had those mats that you stepped on to open the doors. My mother used to get mad at my brother and I for jumping up and down on the to make the doors open.

[Creighton]

Then you had to deal with triple backside bra hooks, the correct place for the matchbook for the eight track to play...
Creighton

[cdc1960]

here`s one of the more addictive pages on the web...

http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/338226/page/1/fpart/1/vc/1