The Spoiled under 30 crowd!!!

[Magz]

Somebody sent me this email :

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 my kids about how hard I had itand 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! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If 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 would 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!

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! NO REMOTES!!!

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

(Send this to someone you'd like to make smile, whether they are under 30 or not.)

[Magz]

And I used to have to walk uphill to school. Both ways!

lol

[Krandall]

I think when the cartoon network came along..

is when cartoons on saturday were officially ruined.

[Magz]

^ agreed.
I used to wake up at 6am on saturdays to watch cartoons because they only came on from 6--11am if you over sleeped you were fooked.
But we also had after school cartoons. from like 3---5pm.
now i wake up at noon on saturdays. no motivation.

[Krandall]

I didn't have cable, so. Exactly.. I was up early saturdays. sittin on the floor w/ a big bowl of cereal.
or after school. until 5pm. then full house came on.

[Lady4Fiddy]

Saturday morning cartoons rocked! And the after school stuff I missed because I had to walk home from school, stop by the private owned grocery store with a forged note "from my Mom" saying that she needed a pack of cigarettes, that I bought with my lunch money or donations from classmates. I didn't get an allowance for my chores I got jack sh!t!

But I always made it home to watch Fullhouse.   

[Magz]

Lol lady.
do you still smoke? you should quit.

[Lady4Fiddy]

Lol lady.
do you still smoke? you should quit.

Yes I do, and I am NOT a quitter!   

[Magz]

Damit lady, quit.
that's 8 more years you could spend with your love Aaron.......
I take up smoking and quit every now and then to add 8 years of my life. by my calculations i'm living indefenetely.
as lond as they don't stop making viagra i'm set. 

[Lady4Fiddy]

Aaron smokes too and is older than me... so I have to smoke a lot to catch up, I want to die first cuz I can't stand the thought of losing him.  :'(

[Colorado700R]

you got 15.1 years before I croak.....

[Lady4Fiddy]

Guess I will have to go sky diving with out a parachute in 14.5 years. 

[Krandall]

you could try breaking the bonzai dive record!

[Colorado700R]

15.1 years from now I'll be near RaptorRandy's age and I don't think I could take that....drooling on myself, wearing diapers, brushing my teeth in the sink.....not gonna happen

[Peelz]

i like it.

uses the word "diatribe"