Monday, January 5, 2009

Time for a Laugh

Those of us over the age of 30 will appreciate this one...enjoy and relive your childhood

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
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! 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!
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 that
Was only m-net 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 ass 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-bastards!
And we didn ' t have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
Something up we had t o use the stove ... 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.
That ' s exactly what I ' m talking about! You kids
Today have got it too easy.
You are SO spoiled. You guys wouldn ' t have lasted
Five minutes back in 1980!
Regards, The over 30 Crowd (Send this to someone you ' d like to make smile, Whether they are under 30 or not.

1 comment:

Stephanie said...

OMG!! I'm laughing my butt off right now....right on! I remember those days...fondly. I'm glad we had to work a little harder...it made me appreciate the "small things" more. And by the way...I had 3 kids and used to think they were jumping on my last one. Loved this post!

~Fellow MUIB Member~