11-04-2005, 12:27 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Austin, TX Age: 38
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| You Future Stars will never understand! (funny)
I received this email recently because the sender knew I am over 30...
Subject: FW: Funny but SO true!
If you are 30 or older you will think this is great. (Anyone who
lived during the 80's)
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; like walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.....uphill BOTH ways....through year 'round blizzards. Carrying their younger siblings on their backs....to their one-room schoolhouse, where they maintained a straight-A average despite their full-time, after-school job at the local textile mill....where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death!
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of BS 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! Compared to my childhood, you live in a Utopia. I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it.
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 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 a week to get there.
There were no MP3s or Napsters. If you wanted to steal music, you had to go 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'd usually talk over the beginning and screwed it all up!
We didn't even have Call Waiting. If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal. We didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either. When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was. It could be your boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know. You just had to pick it up and take your chances.
We didn't have any Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600. With games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics were horrible. Your guy was a little square. (You had to use your imagination) There were no multiple levels or screens; it was just one screen forever. You could never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you died....Just like LIFE.
When you went to the movie theater there was no such thing as stadium seating. All the seats were the same height. If a tall guy sat in front of you and you couldn't see you were screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control. You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on. Channel surfing involved you getting off your *** and walking over to the TV to change the channel. There was no Cartoon Network. You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning...Do ya hear what I'm saying! We had to wait ALL WEEK....you spoiled little *******s!
We didn't have microwaves; if we wanted to heat something up....we had to use the stove. If we wanted popcorn....we had to use that stupid jiffy pop and shake it over the stove like some guy with Parkinson's disease.
You kids today have got it too easy. You guys wouldn't have lasted five
minutes back in the 1980's!
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. I try to play PS2 football games with my son now and I end up losing like 6 bazillion to 3.
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