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If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

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SweetestOfPeas
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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 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 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 ge t there!

There were no MP3's or Napsters! 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!

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' and the graphics sucked! Your guy was a little square! You actually had to u se 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!

When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no on-screen menu and no remote control! 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 *** and walk over to the TV to change the channel and 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 bastards!

And we didn't have micr owaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire ... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.

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 1980!

Oh yea, and a seatbelt was Mom throwing her arm across your chest every time she hit the brakes.

Posted 12/9/07 4:43 PM
 
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nel
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Re: If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

It really is SO SCARY to see how true all of this is. You should see my students' reactions when I tell them I didn't have my first computer until college. "But then how did you write your papers?" Uh... that's just it... BY HAND... or (even more shocking)... a TYPEWRITER. They can't believe anyone ever actually owned one of those.

Posted 12/9/07 4:55 PM
 

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Posted 12/9/07 5:04 PM
 

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Re: If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

this was great!!

Posted 12/9/07 5:12 PM
 

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Posted 12/9/07 5:13 PM
 

SweetestOfPeas
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Re: If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

Posted by nels

It really is SO SCARY to see how true all of this is. You should see my students' reactions when I tell them I didn't have my first computer until college. "But then how did you write your papers?" Uh... that's just it... BY HAND... or (even more shocking)... a TYPEWRITER. They can't believe anyone ever actually owned one of those.

remember those square shape white out sheets they used to sell for typewriters? I just had a flashback Chat Icon

Posted 12/9/07 5:18 PM
 

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Posted 12/9/07 5:21 PM
 

nel
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Re: If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

Posted by SweetestOfPeas

Posted by nels

It really is SO SCARY to see how true all of this is. You should see my students' reactions when I tell them I didn't have my first computer until college. "But then how did you write your papers?" Uh... that's just it... BY HAND... or (even more shocking)... a TYPEWRITER. They can't believe anyone ever actually owned one of those.

remember those square shape white out sheets they used to sell for typewriters? I just had a flashback Chat Icon



Are you kidding? I STILL wax poetic about the high tech typewriter my parents had because there was a backspace button that erased the previous letter. I tell my classes about this, and they're always like... yeah... except we call that DELETE now...

Posted 12/9/07 5:27 PM
 

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Posted 12/9/07 5:35 PM
 

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Re: If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

I had to email this to everyone I know over 30. I laughed.

Posted 12/9/07 6:07 PM
 

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Re: If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

It is so great to remember so many things...BTW I don't miss that busy signal Chat Icon Chat Icon Thanks for posting!Chat Icon

Posted 12/9/07 6:26 PM
 

MsMitcia
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Re: If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

omg, so true...yikes, i feel so old.

Posted 12/9/07 7:14 PM
 

MarathonKnitter
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Re: If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

i just emailed it to all of my cousins!!!

Posted 12/9/07 7:49 PM
 

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Posted 12/9/07 7:54 PM
 

SweetestOfPeas
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Re: If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

Posted by nels

Posted by SweetestOfPeas

Posted by nels

It really is SO SCARY to see how true all of this is. You should see my students' reactions when I tell them I didn't have my first computer until college. "But then how did you write your papers?" Uh... that's just it... BY HAND... or (even more shocking)... a TYPEWRITER. They can't believe anyone ever actually owned one of those.

remember those square shape white out sheets they used to sell for typewriters? I just had a flashback Chat Icon



Are you kidding? I STILL wax poetic about the high tech typewriter my parents had because there was a backspace button that erased the previous letter. I tell my classes about this, and they're always like... yeah... except we call that DELETE now...

wow! your parents must have been rich! Chat Icon

Posted 12/9/07 10:10 PM
 

nel
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Re: If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

Posted by SweetestOfPeas

Posted by nels

Posted by SweetestOfPeas

Posted by nels

It really is SO SCARY to see how true all of this is. You should see my students' reactions when I tell them I didn't have my first computer until college. "But then how did you write your papers?" Uh... that's just it... BY HAND... or (even more shocking)... a TYPEWRITER. They can't believe anyone ever actually owned one of those.

remember those square shape white out sheets they used to sell for typewriters? I just had a flashback Chat Icon



Are you kidding? I STILL wax poetic about the high tech typewriter my parents had because there was a backspace button that erased the previous letter. I tell my classes about this, and they're always like... yeah... except we call that DELETE now...

wow! your parents must have been rich! Chat Icon



Oh, no kidding -- so high tech, right? These, of course, are the people who didn't get THEIR first computer until two or three years ago and now communicate almost primarily through e-mail... Chat Icon

Posted 12/9/07 10:12 PM
 

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Re: If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon This is SO TRUE!!

Posted 12/9/07 10:13 PM
 

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Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon So Scary! So True.

Posted 12/9/07 10:16 PM
 

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Re: If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

OMg if I am in the car with my mom even now (and I will be 30 this month!) She STILL throws out her arm if she stops short, or if someone cuts us off, etc..I guess its the mother thing!Chat Icon

Posted 12/9/07 10:27 PM
 

DandN
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Re: If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

I told my students that I remember having a black and white tv and they looked at me like I was 100.

Posted 12/9/07 10:39 PM
 

nel
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Re: If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

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I told my students that I remember having a black and white tv and they looked at me like I was 100.


I HATE showing them black and white movies. They groan like I'm KILLING them. I'm always like... you get to watch a movie. SHUT UP!!! Chat Icon

Posted 12/9/07 10:41 PM
 

MissJones
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Re: If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

Remember the first cable box that clicked and had a cord that was about 15 feet long and if the couch was further away than that, you were screwed?

Or rabbit ear antennae on the tv bedroom?

Or microwaves with a dial?

Or dual tape decks? Wow...that was huge!

Oh wait...rotary phones?? For the record, used one yesterday at my grandfather's house.

Posted 12/9/07 11:26 PM
 

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Posted 12/10/07 7:26 AM
 

Diane
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Posted 12/10/07 7:28 AM
 

eroxgirl
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Re: If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

This is great!

But call waiting came out when I was 12 (and I'm 33). I still remember the stupid commercial... with the stupid girl who says she's going to make "chicken surprise" for dinner because her mom is going to be home late. Chat Icon

I hoped and prayed my mom would break down and get call waiting instead of always calling the operator to break through my call...and then I'd get in trouble for being on the phone for hours at a time. Chat Icon

Posted 12/10/07 7:48 AM
 
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