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I remember when I was growing up promising myself that when I got to be their age that 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 now!
But now that I'm over the ripe old age of 30, I can't help but look around and notice the sense of entitlement and selfishness that youth of today has.
They've got it so easy! I mean, compared to MY childhood, they live in a damn utopia! And I hate to say it, BUT you kids today...you just don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the internet. What was that? If we wanted to know something, we had to go down to the damn library, but first we had to get on our bikes or walk to our local library because our parents didn't give us rides everywhere we went. So we either rode our bikes or walked down to the library, then park our bikes if we rode them and locked them up, then walked inside the library, went over to the card catalogues and then actually looked up the information ourselves!! And of course, we had to know the Dewey Decimal System in order to find the book in the library!
Also, there was no such thing as electronic mail!! E-mail?? What in the hell was that?? We had to actually had to take the time to sit down at a table and write somebody a letter, with a real pen! Then we had to stick it in an envelope, seal it, address it to sender and put our return address on it too, put a stamp on it, walk over to our mailbox, put it on the mailbox to get mailed, and then it would take like a week to get there!
There were no such things as CD's, MP3's, or wavefiles. We didn't have Napsters, Limewire, and Itunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or if we were really desperate, we had to wait around all day to try and catch it on the radio just so we could tape it off the radio using a an old fashioned tape-recorder. And it totally sucked because the DJ would usually talk over the beginning of the damn song 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! End of story! They had to hang up and redial you manually all over again on a rotary phone! There were no buttons to push! That's right, there was a damn circle that we had to stick our fingers in and turn for each number we wanted to dial!! There was no such thing as a redial button or automatic redialing in 10-seconds crap.
We didn't have fancy-shmancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It was a crap-shoot!! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collection agent, we just didn't know!!! We actually had to actually pick it up and take our chances, mister! It was like playing Russian-roulette with the phone!!
We didn't have any fancy Playstation or X-box or Wii video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics and surround sound! We had the Atari 2600! We played games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids''. Our player guy was a little square! We actually had to use our imaginations!! I know!! I know, what is that?? Using your imagination?? Imagine that!! And there were no multiple levels or screens in the games, it was just one screen....FOREVER! And on top of the same screen over and over again and again we could never win the game. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until we died! Just like LIFE! Imagine that!
We had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on the boob-tube that day! And we were screwed when it came to channel surfing! We actually had to get off our lazy asses and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no such thing as the Cartoon Network either! We could only get cartoons on Saturday mornings early in the morning and the cartoons usually stopped by 9 or 10am. 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 damn freaking easy!! You guys are lazy and spoiled rotten. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
Regards,
The over 30s Crowd!!
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