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someone email this to me, I found it funny, so I posted it, end of story


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 heII 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
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 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 f%cK it all up!

And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options!

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 A$$! 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 A$$ 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-Ba$tard!

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 JiffyPop 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

LOL....ATARI 2600

That's hilarious. I just sent it to all my old (30-31) fart friends.

When I was yer age, we din't have no virtual reality. If you found yerself being chased by an Altarian cyclops warrior, you just had to hope you could outrun it.

actually even THAT was high end, as my first game was pong...thats all it played...took up half of the coffee table and played pong...and it was so FKN COOL!!!...well THEN it was...

PONG Rocks! I miss those days, life was so much simpler then...

yeah it was!!

That's hilarious! I'm saving that to use on my kids in a few years.

I remember the first VCR we got...top load with a "remote control." Never mind that the remote control was attached to a fifteen-foot-long cord and had to be plugged into the VCR...my dad thought he was king of the world when he could change channels without leaving his chair (or yelling at one of us to do it).

Will

Will,
Was it a Beta?

Not a Beta...

We didn't have pong but my neighbor did. The fancy table top version even!! Wooo Hoooo

Definately a simpler time.

Now I feel old... My parents got us the ataRI, BUT REFUSED TO BUY US ANYMORE CAMES CAUSE THEY COST TO MUCH.. I was not allowed to have any toys other then tonka trucka cause they were the only ones I did not take apart to see how they worked.

Toys?!?! You all had toys??

We had to MAKE our toys, mostly out of rocks, twigs, and bits of string.

Bah! In my day, we didn't have water.
We had to smash together our own hydrogen and oxygen atoms.

..."even though we were poor we were happy"
"because we were poor"...

In my day, we didn't have rocks. We had to go down to
the creek and wash our clothes by beating them with
our heads.

cable tv? nope

satellite tv? nope

call waiting? how long to get from the ez chair to the ringing wall phone.

answering machine? nope

cell phone messaging? kinda, what's that stupid secret access code again?

T1 Lines? nope; dial-up

Electric start motorcycles

.......My folks bought me a "Don't Trust Anyone Under 30" coffee cup a "few" years ago. Quite rude, but funny

jwh

In my day, we couldn't afford shoes, so we went
barefoot. In winter, we had to wrap our feet with
barbed wire for traction.

Would the Tonkas counter-steer?

In my day, we didn't have hand-held calculators. We
had to do addition on our fingers. To subtract, we had
to have some fingers amputated.

In my day, we didn't get that disembodied, slightly
ticked-off voice saying 'Doors closing.' We got on the
train, the doors closed, and if your hand was sticking
out, it scraped along the tunnel all the way to the
next station until it was a bloody stump at the end...
but the fare was only a quarter.

I recall going over to a friend's house (+/- 1970),
and being amazed that they had a "Party Line" telephone.

All that BS about walking to school 20 miles uphill both ways.

Never happened just a bunch of bulls**t.



Me and my little brother had to swim across the river everyday both ways to get to school. Then endure a pint of warm milk that has been sitting on the steam raditor since 7:30 while chewing a stale gram cracker.


Someone mentioned cable TV HA !!! we had to hold the rabbit ears so the old man could watch Ed Sullivan. While our arms were wrapped in alum foil.

If one of the tubes burnt out we had to run down to the drugstore and use the test machine to find the bad tube and hope they had the replacement in stock.

Snowblowers consisted of a stick attached to an iron blade, a power mower was something you pushed.

Back in my day, they hadn't invented electricity. We
had to watch television by candlelight.

Back in my day, we did our binary equations with zeros only.
One hadn't been invented yet.

Strangely enough, I've got that same model Underwood.
It belonged to my Great Aunt Gertrude E. McGann, who was a
Typing Teacher at Stone Business School in New Haven.

I still have nightmares about carrying that heavy beast back and forth across the street and staying up all night pounding at the keys.... today's keyboards just don't have the same feel....

Every once in a while I scan ebay for one locally, I'd put it on a shelf somewhere.....

My Old Man used to say, "When I was your age I was Older."

And with this post I'm now offishallee an 'addict'.

That was the first version of Millenium....