Something to share with your kids

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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

0And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in h___ 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 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 darn 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 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 kick our ass! 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 @#*% 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 freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a darn 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.

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!

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!

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?!?!

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-finks!

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 luckily, 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 1980 or any time before!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

[namgrunt]

AH............Those were the days!! I sure do miss them!!!

[rugsrme]

AH............Those were the days!! I sure do miss them!!!

I kinda do to (as I reply to this post on a phone that is actualy a pocket computer :rolleyes

[badaxed]

That was great! Hard to believe so much has changed.

[WantinCrappie]

Enjoyed that read. Thanks.

[rangerman93]

I got the ole "safety arm" many times.

[JohnnyLaw]

AHHHHH, GOOD TIMES,GOOD TIMES

ATLEAST THREE TIMES A WEEK I TELL MY KIDS THEY HAVE NO IDEA HOW LUCKY THEY ARE, I WISH I COULD GO BACK TO THOSE DAYS, I`D LOVE TO DO HIGH SCHOOL ALL OVER AGAIN, OOOHH THE FUN I WOULD HAVE:D
I MEAN I HAD FUN BUT OH MAN WHAT I COULD DO IF I COULD GO BACK,,,,

THESE WERE THE DAYS WHEN YOU COULD DRIVE YOUR TRUCK TO SCHOOL WITH A RIFLE AND SHOTGUN HANGIN IN THE REAR WINDOW AND NOBODY THOUGHT TWICE ABOUT IT. TRY THAT NOW

I MISS MY BIG HAIR AND PARACHUTE PANTS,,,MMMM ON SECOND THOUGHT NO I DONT, NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT WE WORE SOME PRETTY STUPID SH&*T

HAHAHA MEMBER THIS ONE,,,YOU KNOW YOU ALL DID THIS:D MEMBER THE PULL TABS ON BEER CANS AND MAKING THE TAB CHAINS WITH THEM AND HANGING THEM ALL OVER YOUR ROOM:D:D YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

YIP GOOD TIMES

[psilvers]

Gun rack with a rifle and a shotgun in your truck, huh? No big deal. I have a brother who is a few years older - he graduated HS in 1968. The high school had a rifle team! That would be unbelievable these days! Oh yeah, and that was in New York City - where there is strict gun control. Times have really changed!

[JohnnyLaw]

Yeah I Got My Hunter Safety Education In 8th Grade P.e. Class

AND CELLURIZED TELEPHONES COST $3,000 ,,MICROWAVE OVENS WERE THE SIZE OF A TOYOTA PRIUS,,OH SO THATS WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THOSE OLD RECYCLED MICROWAVES!

[cook]

Ahhh,the good old days of tapes getting "eaten"!Beta or VHS?

Kinda liked this line-
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!