The Under 30 Crowd /Spoiled Rotten (LMAO)
Body: > THE SPOILED UNDER-30
> CROWD!!!
> If you are 30 or
> older you will 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 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, 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 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!
> Stamps were 10
> cents!
> 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 ass! No where was safe!
>
> 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 @#*% 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 the tape would come
> undone.cause that's how we rolled 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!
>
> 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, your drug dealer, 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 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!
> 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 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.)
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