I saw this on Facebook on a friends page & I had to share...
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!
1) 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!!
2) 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!
3) 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!
4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted
to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it
yourself!
5) 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 then the tape would come
undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?
6) 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!
7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left
the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to
be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the
horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING.
Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.
8) 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 parents, your
boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent.... you just didn't
know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games
with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like
'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'... Your screen 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!
10) 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!!!
Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!
11) 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!!!
12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat
something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all
day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back
inside... you were doing chores!
And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat
and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across
the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit
the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the
first place!
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today
have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five
minutes back in 1980 or any time before!
Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd
This is Great..
ReplyDeleteThis is sooo true ! One of my favorites was 'if you can't hear me whistle - you've gone too far'. And she could whistle loud.
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