For The 30+ in age

[ALPINE408]

If you are 30, or older, you might 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...

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, 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 a**! 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 ass 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!

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 t hr ew 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!

[k3n12ock]

SO F***KING TRUE. BTW, Coleco Vision FTW!

[cracker]

HAHAHAHA so true so true. i remember trying to call my buddies and if i got a busy signal id hop on my bike and roll down to see whats up for the day lol. didnt have cable in the house growing up but as a teen i was cool as shit with my motorla beeper lol i think it was like 6-13$ a month lol and gas was under a buck all week long lol

[kandiman71874]

How dare them bastards forget to mention PONG!!!!!!!!!!

[cracker]

How dare them bastards forget to mention PONG!!!!!!!!!!

how about pitfall lol

[ALPINE408]

lol pong was the first game i ever played i also remeber when super mario bro's came out in the arcade first day they got one by my house there was a line down the street to play this new hightec game lol

[Sanitarium]

I'm 27 and relate to all of this. So ya don't necessarily have to be 30

[bobonit]

OMFG!!!! I'm 43 and I'm crying that was so funny and true. I had a dial phone. ONE phone, not 5. My porn was on paper. If I wanted to look at nakeds I had to go to the 7-11 and swipe a penthouse or look in someones window.

[Riff Raff]

haha that was great

[Ray]

so true..

Gawd i miss those days..................

just out cruisin on my bike all weekend, sleeping at muh friends house, stayin up all late. go out on the town and ride our bikes till like 3am.

So fun.

those days are gone, if your 10-11 out at 3am the cops would bust yo azz quick

we got away with so much.lol