Crusty Lugholes
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> 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 i t 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 cardcatalog! !
>
> There was n! o 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!
>
> 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 li!
> ke 'Spa ce Invaders'
> and 'Asteroids' and the graphics sucked! 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 sameheight! 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 hea! r what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for
> cartoons, you spoiled little ........
>
> 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 Jiffy Pop thing and
> shake it over the stove forever like an 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
