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DarkSkies
03-06-2010, 07:51 AM
memories of how things used to be, sent in by Surfstix, thanks!


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 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! 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 ***! 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 damn call or receive one. You
> actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOD
> !!! 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 *** 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! (With
> the exception of Wallace and Ladmo)
>
> 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

basshunter
03-06-2010, 07:59 AM
Well said. :clapping::clapping:

rip316
03-06-2010, 08:08 AM
On the money.

Frankiesurf
03-06-2010, 09:41 AM
When I was a toddler my folks took us to Washington DC from LI. There were SIX of us, Mom, Dad, Me and my twin brother and my two 7-9 year old sisters. IN A GREMLIN!! Today my father would have been arrested especially with two two year olds wandering freely around the car.

Another thing about Saturday morning cartoons. If you didn't wake up first you were out of luck in watching what you wanted because there was only ONE TV. Not one in every room even the kitchen.

jonthepain
03-06-2010, 06:18 PM
hearing that from the "over 30 crowd" sounds strange...

-to a member of the over 50 crowd

:(

wish4fish
03-06-2010, 06:49 PM
eff you old people u dont even know how to text, they should put all you old assed dudes in the nursing home after 40.
j/k lol:d
dark where were u today u didnt return my text!