If
you are 40
,
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 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 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 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 spanked
us. As a
matter of
fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to
spank 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 mess 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 cell
phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a 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.
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! There
was
no channel surfing! You had to get off the
couch 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
guys are spoiled.
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 set 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 begging to sit in the front seat 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
(Send
this to someone
you'd like to make smile)
55
year
Class Reunion 2015
