If you are 30 or older you will fully under­stand this with a great big smirk

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 laya bunch of crap like that on my 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! 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 ass! Nowhere was safe!

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! There were no CD play­ers! We had tape decks in our car. 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 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!

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! NO REMOTES!!!

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

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