I did not write this but thought it was funny. If you are 30, or older, you might 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... Barefoot...BOTH ways. yadda, yadda, yadda And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way I was going to laya bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had itand 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 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 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! Stamps were 10 cents! 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 whoop our butts! Nowhere was safe! 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! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and screw 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? 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! There weren't any cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOODNESS !!! 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. 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, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! Wehad 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! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were out of luck when it came to channel surfing! You had to get up and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?! 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! And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that! 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 1980or any time before! Regards, The Over 30 Crowd (Send this to someone you'd like to make smile)
LMAO...If it wasn't for the computer now days kids would have to actually put some time in the woods. Time in the woods and mother nature are the best teachers a hunter could ask for.
LOL! I remember that my family was kind of cool. We had a tv with Pong built in! I also had a TI99 'computer'. It used a tape recorder for a modem and it took forever to upload a game that consisted entirely of text. My friends were jealous.
Something else while I'm rambling. When I was a kid (waaay back when) when it snowed a decent amount, we'd go nuts building snowmen. Snow armies, snow forts.... we'd roll up every inch of snow out of the yard. (of course, we'd also fashion swords out of sticks and go on snowmen killing sprees) Anyhow, I notice lately that kids will go outside.. roll up a ball, then give up and go back inside. Hardly ever do I see completed snowmen anymore.
If you had a bag of soldiers and marbles, you were the chit in my neighborhood. Good read Bruce, I can relate. Oh, Dad kept a switch on the dashboard of the station wagon. I have a friend that says my Dad whiped his ass more than his own dad did. He was an equal opportunity ass buster!!!
Love it...and now the kids that do go outside have powered scooters to move their lazy arses...when I wanted to go somewhere, I pedaled, heck I did this most days all day...and I ate like a wild hog and was skinny as a rail
When we were told to go stand behind the garage... you knew it wasn't going to be pretty. My brother and I spent more time behind the garage then in front of it. LOL He would have us line up... stand there waiting what seemed a small eternity while he fetched his butt whoppin belt... then he would ask who wanted to be first. If no one volunteered... he made it hurt worse. He made us watch while we waited our turn. Tim
When I was a kid, we still played football in the street. I got a nintendo when I was like 8 or so... Kids these days don't know the joy of blowing into a cartridge to get it to work... or the little lifter arm in the nintendo would break and you had to cram another cartridge on top of the one you were playing to get it to work.... Rode a bike every day and never owned a helmet or kneepads... if you fell off, you used your face to protect your brain from hitting the ground. I remember mix tapes... lol Stupid radio jockey talking at the beginning of every song. Either that or you would walk out of the room for a bathroom break and the song would start... you would rush back in and catch it 20 seconds late. Remember collect calls? Yeah 1 800 COLLECT, say your message as your name really fast so the other person didn't have to pay for it. lol
It is as simple as this...There are a FEW good kids out there, but for the most part the majority are looking for a free ride, hand me outs, want to blame everyone else for their problems, expect Mom and Dad to baby them until they are 30, and have no idea of what respect means. They will join the military for a college fund, but cry like babies when they have to go into combat. Parents have to worry about saying or doing the wrong thing because the law is on the kids side...These kids know this and since they have no guts or responsibility for their own actions they hide like little cowards behind the law. All you have to do is look at our kids and you will see what is to come of this country.
