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 through year round blizzards carrying their younger siblings on their backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a straight A average despite their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where they worked for 35 cents and hour just to help keep their family from starving to death.

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've reached the ripe old age of fourty-something, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

YOU'VE GOT IT SO DAMN EASY1

I mean, compared to my childhood, YOU LIVE IN A DAMN UTOPIA1

And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't even know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet-we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves.

AND THERE WAS NO E-MAIL

We had to actually write somebody a letter with a pen.

And then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in a mailbox and it would take like a week to get there.

And there were no MP3's or Napsters.

You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the record store and shoplift it yourself.

Try sticking an LP Album under your jacket, BUDDY

Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and screw it all up.

YOU WANT TO HEAR ABOUT HARDSHIP

We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting. If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal.

And we didn't have a fancy Caller ID Boxes either, When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was-it could be your boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know. Youd just had to pick it up and take your chances, MISTER.

And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames with high-resolution 3-D graphics. We had the Atari. With games like Space Invaders and Asteroids and the graphic sucked. Your guy was a little square. You 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, the game just kept getting harder 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, A tall guy sat in front of you, you were screwed.

and sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 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 ther was no Cartoon Network. You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning..

D'YA Hear What The Hell I'm saying!!

We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards!

That's exactly what I'm talkin about!

You kids today have got it too easy!

You're spoiled, I swear

YOU GUYS WOULDN'T LAST FIVE MINUTES BACK IN 1977

How I loved the 70's!!!

And Im sure someone in their sixties would say the same thing to you about the color television, vcrs, cable television, long distance etc etc. I'll probably be saying the same thing to my kids in fifteen years. . .Thats progress for you. So lets have a beer and lament the good old days.

They did, see beginning of story

ah hah, the vicious cycle continues. . when will it end, to quote the reverend's wife on the simpsons "what about the children!!" I understand where you're going with it, and I understand your being light hearted about it, But a utopia? for all the progress that has been made to enlighten our lifes, there has also been a lot of nonsense. . Have you heard the music nowadays? What about the fashion sense? absolute garbage. . And all I can say is Thank Providence for cartoon network. . I remember growing up in the EIGHTIES and not having cable at all. I would wake up early on saturday and watch cartoons.

good one sharp

Not alll the music these days is bad..but most of it..my god! The fashion..thank god I don't follow it..I make my own!,and as for Cartoon network..why dind't they have that when I was growin up? I remember having to wake up early on Sat. morning to catch my cartoons in the 80's..

Brought back some memories!!!

Funny chit man layin it down. solid! I think the same way and when i tell my kids they look at me the same way i looked at my old man thinking. Shut the ....up your old and don't know anything. Course not out loud for fear of getting my ass kicked into next week.

I grew up in 60-70's, we actually had antenna tv, three channels if you were lucky, with crappy reception, maybe four if you had an UHF antenna, and had to get up and change them and twist and turn the antenna and watch crap like the lawrence welk show in black and white, only the rich kids got color for a while

they wear flair legged, bell bottoms and hip huggers and think its NEW

(((((((((((Just))))))))))) how you doin darlin

Oh how true

You're just jealous.

Btw,
Older gaming systems were
better; funnier glitches,
better music, and not so serious
and competitive, either.

If you're so pissed off at the
internet, why do you have a
JSH account?
And btw, you have to have an email
address for that, Buster.

...
Duh.
xD

It's a Fvcking Joke DumbAss