The SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

[dBel84]

I can't take credit for this but cracked up when I read it.

enjoy ..dB

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... 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 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 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 catalog!!

There was no e-mail!! 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 kick our asses! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3' S roasters! 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!

There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our cars. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone, 'cause that's how we rolled, 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!

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 Play Station video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! And remember Pong? 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!

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! 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 to use the stove ... Imagine that!

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 1980or before!

Regards,

The over 30 Crowd

[dBel84]

and yes, i fully expect to get a shovel or 2 for posting such tripe ..dB

[blubliss]

That was awesome!

[HeadphoneAddict]

So True!

They left out no cell phones when we were growing up (DOB 1962). I got my first cell phone in 1987, and it was bolted and hardwired to my car! I remember when Nokia had the only small cell phone with a flip out/rotate out antenna, and it was like a small candybar phone compared to the Motorola BRICK.

I took notes in med school lectures with a tandy TR100 portable with 4 line screen and tape backup, and everyone thought that was sooo advanced. I didn't have a real computer till 1986 when I got a Commodore 64 to type up history and physicals for med school. Then I went nuts for the 128, the Atari ST and Amiga, then Mac.

Satellite TV meant having a 6-10 foot dish in your yard, and not always finding the satellites. (didn't they have like a different satellite for different channels?)

I was 23 years old before the 1st portable CD player came out, and it was about $500 at Neiman Marcus dept stores.

[Beefy]

Considering I turn 30 today, I don't know whether to laugh or cry

[boomana]

Happy birthday, Beefy!

[manaox2]

Considering I turn 30 today, I don't know whether to laugh or cry

No worries, I know I had to do all of that stuff until middle school myself and am 24.

[Dreadhead]

Happy Birthday Beefy!

I turn 30 in 15 days maybe then I'll find this funny

[swt61]

Well we did have remote control when I was a kid, it was me. Being the youngest of three boys (my little Sister was far too precious to my Dad to actually do anything related to work), I was always called upon to change channels. It only really pissed me off when I had to change from something I liked. I still hear "Stevie Meevie turn on the TV" in my dreams.

All of that hits home with me, I'm obviously the same age as the writer.

[Spiug31]

ah the good old days

[manaox2]

I also was the damn remote control when I was a kid, I completely relate. We had one button and two knobs on that B&W POS too. I think only recently did I stop imagining hearing my dad calling my name.

[mypasswordis]

I'm 20 and half the things on the list apply to me I didn't get a cell phone until junior year of high school, and was on dial-up for quite awhile.

Sorry to hear about being the remote. I didn't watch TV, but I wasn't made to be the remote, either.

[Guest sachu]

looks like I was already living like you 30 plus year olds by growing up in a third world country ...At least the transition will be smooth ....

[swt61]

I didn't get a cell phone until junior year of high school, and was on dial-up for quite awhile.

Oh the inhumanity!!!

Just teasing you bud.

The other side of the coin is that there are now so many obese kids, due to inactivity. When I was a kid we were in the house for meals, then back out to play in the neighborhood until dark. It was a pretty good life in reality. On long car trips we had these odd things called books.

Of coarse most kids probably don't grow up on a 5 acre lot, with a fast running creek in their back yard. We had a mountain lake that was about an hours hike, and two big dogs to haul gear for us. Growing up in Alaska was awesome!

[Sherwood]

Hey old people:

Why invent all this stuff and then bitch about how it exists?

Thanks for the internet, though.

[HeadphoneAddict]

Hey old people:

Why invent all this stuff and then bitch about how it exists?

Thanks for the internet, though.

I was a beta tester for AOL around 1989.

[mypasswordis]

Oh the inhumanity!!!

Just teasing you bud.

The other side of the coin is that there are now so many obese kids, due to inactivity. When I was a kid we were in the house for meals, then back out to play in the neighborhood until dark. It was a pretty good life in reality. On long car trips we had these odd things called books.

Of coarse most kids probably don't grow up on a 5 acre lot, with a fast running creek in their back yard. We had a mountain lake that was about an hours hike, and two big dogs to haul gear for us. Growing up in Alaska was awesome!

I spent all of my childhood holed up in my room studying... didn't really watch TV or play games. I never played sports outside of PE class. Right now I'm trying to eat fast enough to offset my metabolism, and I still don't really play sports. Was a size 30 waist two years ago, now none of my pants fit without a belt. Edit: And I still spend all my time studying and practicing.

[Dusty Chalk]

Hey old people...

[Sherwood]

Well it's not like I could have said "mature"

[Dusty Chalk]

(smirk)

[Augsburger]

I'm so old, we did macro economic forecasting projects in graduate school with punch cards. My wife did the same thing in her MBA program with their own pcs. Talk about generation gap.

You young whippersnappers..............

[boomana]

Not only did I not grow up with a cell phone, I actually remember party lines.

[Grahame]

Luxury! In my day, when you wanted to dial a number, you had to DIAL a number!

See how far we've come!

[The Monkey]

I remember my parents' mad dash to the bank on Friday afternoons to get cash for the weekend.

ATMs FTW.

[HeadphoneAddict]

I'm so old, we did macro economic forecasting projects in graduate school with punch cards. My wife did the same thing in her MBA program with their own pcs. Talk about generation gap.

You young whippersnappers..............

Yah, I remember having to do punch cards for the computer at Texas A&M in the early 80's, and my mom's real job when I was growing up was as a key punch operator for Shell Oil.