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Posted in Humour on 02/28/2009 05:29 pm by sunita thakur
TO 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 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!
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 @#*% 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 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!
Sure, we had cable
television, but back then there was only one
real movie channel (HBO), 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 ass and walk
over to the TV to change the channel!
And
we didn’t have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to
use the stove … Imagine that! If we wanted Popcorn, we had to use that
stupid Jiffy Pop pan 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