MyOwnWay - 8-22-2007 at 05:34 PM
An updated twist - not remembering the forties and
fifties...
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, 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
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 mail
box 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 @#*% 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!
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!
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"
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!
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 onscreen
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 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 a frigging 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 over 30 Crowd
Discipline - 8-22-2007 at 05:40 PM
I had a microwave in the early 80's.
MyOwnWay - 8-22-2007 at 05:41 PM
Really? I didnt. I didnt think that shit came out until the early ninties.
BDx13 - 8-22-2007 at 06:36 PM
my dad had a microwave in the 70s. still has it. it's huge.
of course, he also used to start fires to pop popcorn back then, so whatever.
my mom, who i lived with, didn't get a microwave until like 95. she thought for sure those things would kill ya.
DaveMoral - 8-22-2007 at 07:21 PM
I still think they will... but I have one. With a little cardboard diamond with a ninja taped to the front... the ninja came from some box for some
sort of natural food product when I lived in Oregon and my wife worked at a store called "Natures."
morgan - 8-22-2007 at 08:13 PM
I really can't argue with you on that. We do have it a lot easier than what y'all did. I can't even imagine the type of shit the next generation is
going to have.