snapperbait
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When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious<br />diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what<br />with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill BOTH<br />ways .. yadda, yadda, yadda<br />And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way<br />I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I<br />had it and how easy they've got it!<br /><br /><br />But now that...<br /><br /><br />I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and<br />notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy!<br /><br />I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a Utopia!<br /><br />And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!<br /><br /><br />I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet.<br /><br />If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and<br />look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!<br /><br />There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter ...<br />with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put<br />it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!<br /><br /><br />There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music,you had to<br />hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you<br />had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd<br />usually talk over the beginning and screw it all up!<br /><br /><br />We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone<br />and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!<br /><br /><br />And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang,<br />you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your<br />boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just<br />didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!<br /><br />We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with<br />high-resolution 3-D graphics! ! ;We had the Atari 2600! With games<br />like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics sucked!<br />Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your<br />imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just<br />one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept<br />getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! ...<br />Just like LIFE!<br /><br />When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium<br />seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old<br />broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were<br />just screwed!<br /><br />Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15<br />channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had<br />to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!<br /><br />You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get up<br />and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was<br />no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday<br />Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for<br />cartoons!<br /><br />And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up . we<br />had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire ...<br /><br />imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid JiffyPop<br />thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.<br /><br />That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too<br />easy. You're spoiled.<br /><br /><br />You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />-The 30 Something crowd!
