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
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