2BEANS
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Member since 9/07 16106 total posts
Name:
Tina
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The spoiled
THE SPOILED
UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
If you are 40 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!! im 31 and experienced it all too.
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 past 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 get there!
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. Then 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 Boxes 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 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!
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 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 wh at was on! You were screwed
when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your a** 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 #$!##@!!
And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had
to use the stove, or go build a friggin' 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 it too easy.
You're spoiled!!!!!!!!!
You guys wouldn't have lasted five min utes back in 1980! Oh yeah, and a
seatbelt was Mom throwing her arm across your chest every time she hit
the brakes.
Regards,
The over 40 Crowd
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