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; 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 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-something, 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 dang Utopia!
And I hate to say it, but you kids today don't know how good you've got it!

When I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves...in the card catalogue!!
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!

There were no MP3's or Napsters! 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!


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!

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 mom, your boss, your Bookie, a collections agent. You
Just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

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'. 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!


You had to use a little book called the TV Guide to find out what was
On TV! 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. 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. You're spoiled Rotten!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
Something up, we had to use the stove .... Imagine that!
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
(Send this to someone you'd like to make smile,
Whether they are under 30 or not.)

yeah i remember getting this email years ago and thinking

yeah we know. we just don't give a sh*t.

<--- 1980 baby!

my dad used to tell me that a sign of age was when you started b1tching about the kids, how easy they have it, how stupid they are, their music

and now I find that he was right

Im under 30 and Im not spoiled

1980?? Try 1970!!

yeah all that disco dancing was tough

and the parachute pants

and the platform shoes

and those newfangled PC things with that cool new game, PacMan

And only THREE channels. If the President was on, FORGET IT! You were screwed!

Black and white tv

Party-lines

And if you wanted privacy on the phone, you better have a really long phone cord!

The alarm clocks where the numbers flipped over!

1975 - Long hair.
2008 - Longing for hair.

1975 - KEG
2008 - EKG

1975 - Acid rock
2008 - Acid Reflux

1975 - Moving to California because it's cool.
2008 - Moving to Arizona because it's warm.

1975 - Seeds and stems
2008 - Roughage

1975 - Hoping for a BMW
2008 - Hoping for a BM

1975 - Going to a new, hip joint
2008 - Receiving a new hip joint

1975 - Being called into the principal's office
2008 - Calling the principal's office

1975 - Screw the system!
2008 - Upgrade the system!

1975 - Disco
2008 - ShopKo

1975 - Passing the driver's test
2008 - Passing the vision test

1975 - Whatever
2008 - Depends

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will put things into perspective:

The people who will be starting college this fall were born in 1990.

They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up after liftoff.

Their lifetime has always included AIDS.

Bottle caps have always been screw-off and plastic.

The CD was the first form of entertainment media they've ever known.

They have always had an answering machine.

They have always had cable.

They will look at you like a monkey doing a math problem if you try to expain to them what a "party line" was.

They cannot fathom not having a remote control.

Jay Leno has always been on The Tonight Show.

Popcorn has always been prepared in the microwave.

They've never taken a swim and thought about Jaws.

They have no idea what hard contact lenses are.

They don't know who Mork was, or where he was from. They've never heard, "Where's the beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel", or "Boss! De plane! De plane!"

They do not care who shot J.R., and they have no idea who J.R even is.

McDonald's never came in styrofoam containers.

They don't have a clue as to how to use a typewriter.

Lava lamps, remember the watches called Swatch? (Good thing they were made in Croatia), blue eye shadow, tie dyed shirts.

WOW!!!! THOSE are GREAT! I feel really old now thank you soooo much!!

now all you damn kids get off my lawn!!!

AMEN!!

That was the object!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHRTSRGMDik

don't forget the fist shake

and turn down that damn hippity hoppity music!!!