Over thirty

[FoundArealQuad]

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 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 we re 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 or before!


Regards,

The over 30 Crowd

[blueyamaha]

Man... I'm 23 and some of that sounds just like when I was growing up.

[exentix]

mini ho takes offense to this 

[russ-russ]

All too true, little rat bastards.

[Peelz]

I am 33 I am rolling! 

[Colorado700R]

but we had parachute pants 

[Krandall]

to funny, I got brought in @ the end of the atari and the beginning of the NES. I had the world by the balls.

[Peelz]

but we had parachute pants 

yeah baby yeah! 

Did any of you guys have Kangaroos? Shoes with a pouch in it.

[Colorado700R]

and Zubaz 

[socalrappy700]

I was rockin the pumps.

[Peelz]

and Zubaz 

Just gonna post that one. ERMAHGERD. 

[socalrappy700]

Don't forget about rolling your pants

[Colorado700R]

hell yeah E, I'm losing feeling in my feet just thinking about that 

[Peelz]

Don't forget about rolling your pants

tight rolled for shizzle. And low top Vans. When I ripped them up from skateboarding, I had to duct tape them. My parents wouldn't buy them every month. THose shoes really had no use when we moved here.

[Krandall]

my mom wouldn't let me or my bro get zubaz


I saw them the OFFICIAL ones for sale at our mall before christmas!