Kids today... I tell ya!

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 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 friggin library and look it up ourselves ...
in the card catalog!! And 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 at least to get there!

There were no MP3s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it (yes ... I said TAPE it) off the radio and then the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and f#*k 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, end of story.

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, whatever! It was a total crap shot ... 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!

When you went to the movie theater, there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall bastered like me or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you, you couldn't see, you were just screwed!

There was no cable television, and there was only like 4 channels... and there was no on screen 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 lazy butt and actually walk over to the TV to change the channel.

Oh yeah! 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 rats!

Let's not forget we had to think about time, there were no numbers to tell us exactly what time it was. You say it's 20 til today to kids and they'll respond, "what?"

And we didn't have microwaves. Nooo! (and damn radar ranges were not microwaves ovens) If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire! Just 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. I bet you don't even know what Jiffy Pop is!!!

See, that's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. Today kids wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980's!

Regards,
From The over 30 Crowd

Thanks Rob!

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