30 or older will make you laugh! 20 something you might learn something !

[CATCHMEIFYOUCAN]

IF you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!! If you're still in your 20's, maybe you'll learn something, LOL!!

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...
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, 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, w hen 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!

There were no MP3's or Napsters!
You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and FUC* it all up!

And talk of about hardship?
You couldn't just download porn! You had to steal it from your
brother or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11!
Those were your options!

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 Boxes either!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

Don't get me started on the cell phone for kids issue. We all have fallen into the trap of "it's for their safety". But it is amazing that we came and went and never had a phone on us and we all lived. A cell phone, hell back then phones at home still had cords on them. Imagine
being tied to one spot. Roaming charges...yeah, we had those...when westrayed too far from home we got charged with it and got our butts beat...there are some roaming charges for you!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with
high-resolution 3-D gr aphics!
We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and
"asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass! 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!

Nowadays kids have a million activities after school and on the
weekends that they need to be taken to. When we were young, our Mom's didn't take us anywhere, except to the grocery store (and back then they didn't even have to take us in, they could just leave us in the car!). Heck they didn't even drive us to school...your transportation was your stinking little feet.
Not to mention they would never have paid money for all of those activities...we were told, "What do you think? We are just made of money?". The answer was no and we walked to where we wanted to go.

When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating!
All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no on screen menu and no remote control! 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 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 spoiled little rat-bastards!

And now there are DVD players in the cars! God forbid they just
stare out the window like we did. Now Mom's can't say, "If you don't behave I am going to come across this seat and beat your butt", no! Because they would hit their heads on the damn DVD player!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire...imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that Stupid JiffyPop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.

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 30 Something crowd!

[whatamess]

Scary, I'm 34 and say some of this stuff to my kids. My kids are not spoiled either. One of DD #1's gal pals said we were 'retro' because we used debit cards, did not shop at Ambercrombie & Hollister, and our Tv is only a 32" LCD and we dont have a Wii. Curse that old gamecube....all this from a 9 year old.
Spoiled little trolls....
WAM

[magyar123]

Rolling Stones had a song - Things are different today, I hear every mother say, oh what a drag it is getting old.........

[robivi3]

"Look daddy, Shake and Bake, and I helped!" And the kid was happy!!!!! And even though I'm a boy those Suzy Homemaker Ovens made the best bad tasting brownies ever!!!!!!

And if you subject a kid to a 27" TV someone might call HRS! After all, that's considered child abuse!!!!!!!

I remember riding GIjOE in Barbie's vette!!! How about an entire day fighting Nazi's through back yards, NEVER THINKING OF DAMAGING PEOPLES PROPERTY (telling if someone did) and only getting called in for lunch and dinner!!! And don't get me started on plastic Tommy Guns!!!! And the mother of all, getting your ass BEAT by the Teacher and BEAT again when you got home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember one toy was a hot plate with a plastic cover that you set a plastic cube on to "bake your monster"!

Not playing outside at night because my Dad and I had to watch "12 0'clock High".

Traveling at night and layng down in the back seat to watch the stars! Or laying your head back on the rear window counter so that all you saw was glass and stars. ACTUALLY SEEING STARS!!!

Safe at school... stable neighborhoods... cops in control on the street...

[LadynRed]

Go back another 20 years.. it gets funnier....

[Yankee07]

Black and white TV with rabbit ears, no fast food at all, mandatory PE in school, played outside until dinner time everyday, cheked in with mom when we were hungry or thirsty, rode bicycles without helmets, no seat belts, or air bags in cars, very few cars had air conditioning. American bandstand for entertainment. Sometimes I think the further back you go the better it was.

[CATCHMEIFYOUCAN]

I agree !

Black and white TV with rabbit ears, no fast food at all, mandatory PE in school, played outside until dinner time everyday, cheked in with mom when we were hungry or thirsty, rode bicycles without helmets, no seat belts, or air bags in cars, very few cars had air conditioning. American bandstand for entertainment. Sometimes I think the further back you go the better it was.

I actually just turned 40, but I definitely agree with THAT !

[$$only4ever]

Remember the golden rule when you were kids?

You had to be home when the street lights came on

[AMISLANDER]

When I started college in September 1980, we were the first ones to have ATM cards!

If you didn't have the cash, you just deposited a slip of paper in the envelope & told the machine you made a deposit & viola...you got cash....I don't even think we got overdraft charges then as it was all "too" new!

We could go to Campus Corners II in East Lansing, cash a check & get $20 to go to the bar if we were broke...checks were so slow & actually when we made that deposit to cover the check it went in before the check cleared .... no problems...

[rilbrianne]

hahaha, I wish things were that way again... I remember it like that when I was young. I'm 25 but I things seemed so much simpler back then. I get so pissed when I see someone buy their 6 year old a cell phone or when a 4 year old has a TV, computer, and Wii in their room. God forbid they should GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY IN THE DIRT. My girls are 4 and 1 and I swear, I'll never let them have all that crap and if they EVER talk to me like these kids do now days, I'll do like my parents did and beat their behinds. We used to play till dark and got called in for meals. We had everything we could ever want outside when we were playing, we thought we had it all. Imagination is a horrible thing to waste.

I could go on and on about kids today and parenting but I don't want to bore anyone or get a big thing going. I should have been born back in the 50's though, I'm not cut out for this generation.

[HeatherB]

OMG, too funny. And true.

Bigger was better... boomboxes, even hair! I remember seeing people on the street with the boomboxes on their shoulder. LOL

Atari!! I still love those type of games. My parents were actually given two stand up arcade games. I don't remember which game it (missle command, maybe) was but it had a ball and a button. You had to shoot the lines coming down before they destroyed the buildings. I remember I would play it after swimming and the stupid round ball you had to roll would shock you! And you're right. You never won! You just had to see how far you could get.

I don't remember even having delivery! (like pizza, chinese). The only delivery I ever remember was seeing shows where rich old women would have their groceries delivered. (True that this could've been a geographical thing, though)

BE KIND - PLEASE REWIND! LOL

Cartoons between 7-9 and then at 3-5. That was it except for weekends. Now they have channels that are nothing but cartoons.

As far as games.... Operation was cool (it had a light and sounds), so was Hungry Hungry Hippo and Connect Four. But if you were bored and by yourself you were out of luck unless you had a deck of cards (solitaire)! Or an atari. You had to go to a "gameroom" place to play anything else. Outside fun was Simon Says and Red Rover. Or the countless tag games that the imagination could come up with (freeze tag, flashlight tag)

Toys didn't move, talk, or light up. Although, you could move barbi's arms, legs, head. Transformers came out, though. Those were the coolest toys.... eventhough the were geared toward boys.

Being sent to your room was a true punishment. You didn't get to go to your room and watch TV/play on the computer, etc. Your room was a boring place with a bed and a few boring toys. You couldn't wait until you were "ungrounded" so you could play.

We didn't have such thing as "time-outs". Spanking was the norm. I don't remember anything "killing us". Now everything you do seems to have a risk or warning label.

I could go on....lol and on...

[FLBK7]

Black and white TV with rabbit ears, no fast food at all, mandatory PE in school, played outside until dinner time everyday, cheked in with mom when we were hungry or thirsty, rode bicycles without helmets, no seat belts, or air bags in cars, very few cars had air conditioning. American bandstand for entertainment. Sometimes I think the further back you go the better it was.

You must be my contemporary. Those were good, good old days!

I'm female, and I'll never forget our ugly white gym uniforms -- they were short one piece "jumper" type, with elastic on the thighs. And yes, PE was mandatory. It should have remained mandatory always. Maybe that would have helped prevent or at least alleviate this country's child obesity crisis!

[rilbrianne]

In our town, it's still mandatory...

[JollyGG]

And yes, PE was mandatory. It should have remained mandatory always. Maybe that would have helped prevent or at least alleviate this country's child obesity crisis!

It's funny I blame PE for some of my dislike of exercise. It was mandatory through 10th grade in my school. I learned that exercise was something someone made me do to avoid failing a class instead of learning that sports are fun or that I feel good when I exercise regularly.