If you are 36, 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 in hell I was going to lay a 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 forty, 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!
1) 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!!
2) 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!
3) 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!
4) 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!
5) 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 then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. 'Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?
6) 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!
7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! 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.
8) 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, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had 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!
10) 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!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!
11) 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!
12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
13) 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 1970 or any time before!
Regards,
The Over 40 Crowd
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 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 forty, 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!
1) 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!!
2) 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!
3) 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!
4) 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!
5) 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 then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. 'Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?
6) 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!
7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! 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.
8) 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, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had 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!
10) 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!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!
11) 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!
12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
13) 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 1970 or any time before!
Regards,
The Over 40 Crowd
6 comments:
I am laughing so hard reading this! It is soooo true! I grew up in the 70's and 80's and wouldn't change it for the world. GOOD TIMES!! I wish I had a time machine to go back.
lol love it
This is sooooo funny and true. Grew up in the 60's-70's. No one felt they were so important that everyone needed to know their every move 24/7.
What is sad is that I'm 35, and I remember all of this stuff, except the 10 cent stamps. I definately remember the "safety arm!" I am still laughing as I write this! The eighties were good times.
I wonder how many times you heard this from your parents to have such a big chip on your shoulder.
1) Its called an encyclopedia...and we still know how to use them
2) E-mail is obsolete. We text now.
3) Now-a-days child protective services is just another threat...my dad said "It's going to take child services 20 minutes to get here. Do you really want to find out how much pain you can be in within twenty minutes"
4) Limewire got shut down. We probably pay more for a song on itunes that you payed for an entire record (if you paid)
5) I am a product of the 90's. I did record songs on tapes...until i discovered that i could copy music onto cd's much like you could copy tapes. Ya dig?
6) Call waiting is overrated. Our house phone still doesn't have it. Does yours?
7) There weren't many kidnappers lurking around back then either. One of the reasons my parents got me a cell phone back in middle school (over 6 years ago)
8) You obviously didn't have cell phones so my question is...why did you give your drug dealer your house number. I have no personal experience with that dilemma but i sure as hell wouldnt give any drug dealer my house number.
9) When my parents were kids, only the rich kids had video games....so that narrows you down.
10) Now there's a channel called tv guide....it saves tree's...no paper
11) i certainly never had time to watch cartoons during the week. It's called homework. Besides, your cartoons were far better than the lousy ones i grew up with
12) You're right...you didn't have microwaves. You had stay at home mom's that fed you. Now our mom's work because they need to pay for our college.
13) We couldn't go outside without some creep asking us if we wanted ice cream...and that's in the good neighborhoods. And car's didn't stop fast enough back then for you to hit your head.
So as much as you enjoy boasting about how hard you had it in the 70's, i would probably mess my pants if i saw one of you trying to survive in my shoes.
You should try saying no to drugs every day...or starting dinner for your parents because they're working late. Try dealing with the urge to conform to what other kids are doing because you know it's wrong. Better yet, why don't you try to edit a myspace (which is completely obsolete) or work a graphing calculator. I'd rather do it by hand. Best challenge of all. You should try typing 60 words per minute.
You see. Our generation is not spoiled. We have adapted. We make it look simple but it is all we know. No, we are not bitter. We are brilliant. So brilliant that we have you believing that we're spoiled. That's what's comical.
Regards,
The Barely Under 20 Crowd =]
6) Call waiting is overrated. Our house phone still doesn't have it. Does yours?
a) we don't have house phone anymore.
7) There weren't many kidnappers lurking around back then either. One of the reasons my parents got me a cell phone back in middle school (over 6 years ago)
a) I'm sure there were, just that we didn't hear about them as much or easily as now. (internet)
8) You obviously didn't have cell phones so my question is...why did you give your drug dealer your house number. I have no personal experience with that dilemma but i sure as hell wouldnt give any drug dealer my house number.
a) I never did, but someone always knew someone who knew someone who had something.
9) When my parents were kids, only the rich kids had video games....so that narrows you down.
a) we were by no means rich but we had atari 2600. (even my dad got hooked on pac man)
10) Now there's a channel called tv guide....it saves tree's...no paper
a) but they still make tv guide?
11) i certainly never had time to watch cartoons during the week. It's called homework. Besides, your cartoons were far better than the lousy ones i grew up with
a) I did my homework at school in study hall, rarely took a book home. Have to agree about cartoons.
12) You're right...you didn't have microwaves. You had stay at home mom's that fed you. Now our mom's work because they need to pay for our college.
a) yes, when she had food to cook.
13) We couldn't go outside without some creep asking us if we wanted ice cream...and that's in the good neighborhoods. And car's didn't stop fast enough back then for you to hit your head.
a)lol yeah cars weighed much more back then.
So as much as you enjoy boasting about how hard you had it in the 70's, i would probably mess my pants if i saw one of you trying to survive in my shoes.
a) again, I would have to agree. The most I worried about was an ass kicking, not getting shot or jumped by gangs. (although we did have isolated instances of each)
You should try saying no to drugs every day...or starting dinner for your parents because they're working late. Try dealing with the urge to conform to what other kids are doing because you know it's wrong. Better yet, why don't you try to edit a myspace (which is completely obsolete) or work a graphing calculator. I'd rather do it by hand. Best challenge of all. You should try typing 60 words per minute.
a) we had those urges too but it wasn't as rampant then as now. I still have myspace although I never use it. You got me on the graphing calculator. We weren't even allowed to use them if they had such things then. I took typing in high school but not sure what my rate is now. ( or then )
You see. Our generation is not spoiled. We have adapted. We make it look simple but it is all we know. No, we are not bitter. We are brilliant. So brilliant that we have you believing that we're spoiled. That's what's comical.
a) Sure you are, compared to what we had. You have different obstacles then we did and I'm sure you will say the same thing to the generation that follows you. Now if you're brilliant, that's a good thing. I'm sure there are some, as I think my own kids are brilliant. But from what I see and read, there aren't many that are.
The cycle of life. It's been that way long before I was ever thought of and will be here long after your kids are gone. (If the world hasn't exploded by then)
Regards,
The Barely Under 20 Crowd =]
Good luck to ya.
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