The spoiled under 30 crowd (humor)
The Spoiled Under 30 Crowd
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!
1. 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!
3. 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 fuck it all up!
4. 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!
5. 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!
6. 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 were horrible! 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!
7. 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!
8. Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! 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!
9. And we didn't have microwaves, if wewanted to heat something
up, we had to use the stove or go build a fire ... imagine that! If we
wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing or a pan
with HOT oil and Real popcorn kernels and shake it all over the stove
forever like an idiot.
10. When we were on the phone with our friends and our parents walked-in, we were stuck to the wall with a cord, a 7 foot cord that
ran to the phone - not the phone base, the actual phone. We barely
had enough length to sit on the floor and still
be able to twirl the phone cord in our fingers. If you suddenly had to
go to the bathroom - guess what we had to do.....hang up and talk to
them later.
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!
Regards,
The over 30 Crowd
Re: The spoiled under 30 crowd (humor)
Quote:
Originally Posted by will802
The Spoiled Under 30 Crowd
If you are 30 or older you will think
this is hilarious!!!!
Excellent.
I remember the days when the tranny debate was about whether trannies would ever succeed in killing off valve radios completely.
Every generation should make up its own 'life in my day' list. It would be an eye opener.