If you are 36, or older, you might think this is hilarious!
If your 65 or older it 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 that I'm over the ripe old age of forty, 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!

1) 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!

2) 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!

3) 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!

4) 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!

5) 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?

6) 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!

7) 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 GOSH! 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.

8) 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!

9) 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!

10) 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?!?!

11) 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 @#$%&!

12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!




13) 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 lucky, 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 1970 or any time before!

Regards,
The Over 40 Crowd

I'm not over 40 but I relate to this heavily.

I relate to all of it, esp listing to my parents walking to school in the snow and rain, barefoot, you younguns have it easy now a days, you don't even have to wash the dishes by hand , just throw them in the dish washer ! or have to go out in the winter time and hang clothes up on the clothes line, freezing your **** fingers off.just throw them in the dryer.
Oh I was the ***** remote every time my parents wanted the t.v. changed I had to get up walk all the way across the living room and change the channel.at least now there is remotes.
I also had to play outside all day , and wait on the weekends to
watch cartoons.
lol ,, but growing up in the 80's I got to see 8 tracks, tapes, records , then cd's . drive through theaters they were the best you were able to be in your pj's run around the other cars and pillow fight with the other kids until the movie started .

Born in 1954 I also can relate.
1. Took many trips to the library
2.Snail mail was hell if you were waiting on a response from a girl to let you know if she liked you or not
3.Yep. Nowhere was safe. Not even school. The principal could even take wackes at your bare butt
4.And believe me. Those hard, vinyl round records were NOT that easy to stick down your pants
5.Tape it off the radio? Only if you could get the station to come in on that little transistor one that you had to hold and move around to get the signal
6. The busy signal drove me crazy whenever I tried calling girlfriend and got the dreaded BUSY signal.Know what I mean?
7.Oh yea. No cell phones. Always had to make sure you carried loose change with you in the case your car broke down. And you had to walk 2 miles to the nearest pay phone to call for help.
8.No caller I.D. Had to sit there and look at the expression on your moms face to tell whether it was the principle of the school squealing on you or not.
9.Atari? That was for the rich folks. All I got was the Pick up jacks, log cabin that came in an oatmeal style container. Or the G.I. Joe.
10.T.V. guide? Oh yea, I remember those. I saw one in an antique store the other day.
11.Yes. Waiting all week for Saturday to come along to watch Casper the friendly ghost. Mighty mouse, Bullwinkle, tweedy bird, roadrunner.
12.No microwave. Had to actually have to stand there and shake a skillet back and forth over the burner if you wanted popcorn to enjoy while watching the Bonanza show on Sunday.
13.Always looked forward to supper time. That way I could FINALLY come inside.
14. No car seats. That's why I am so dingy today. Tooooooo many times hitting my forehead on the dash

My principle back in elementary liked to use a thick wooden board
with a hole in the middle, the worst part was haveing to come home and have a **** flip flop to your behind by mom, then dad came home, so I got it three times in a day.It seemed that I was all ways in trouble, and the bad part was no matter what it was even with my cousins I was the one to get caught and get my @$$ beat .

Yes I must say I'm a little jealous and envious.

I do think the "Midnight Special" was one of the greatest things to happen...