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The Spoiled Under 30 Crowd

Yanuck

Well-known member
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 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!

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'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 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 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!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that
Was only m-net And there was no on screen 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 ... 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
 

Yanuck

Well-known member
Big Muddy rancher said:
Are just a little bitter? :wink: :lol:

My 7 year old learned how to run the remote this summer, when I told her about having to get up out of the chair to change the channel? I don't think she believed me!
 

per

Well-known member
The TV had 2 channels and was black and white when I grew up. The telephone was shared with 5 families. The seat backs on the school bus weren't padded. Yikes, I'm not that much older. Things have changed very quickly.
 

efb

Well-known member
You over 30's think you had it tough. Color TV, climb into your cushy autos with just two peddles, one to go one to stop. Never new what it was to push in the third peddle and find a gear just right for the speed and load conditions, do you even know what double clutching is ? Just move a lever to get the temp. to suit you. Never had to swelter in the summer with the windows down and the dust coming in faster than air. Go out and climb on your high powered tractors with hydrolics that would lift anything. Do you think you could cut it picking up your winter feed supply by hand ,75 pounds at a time ?? Yea, you over 30's can tell your kids how spoiled they are, but we over 60's know what tough is and we'll be ready when it comes again :p
 

Yanuck

Well-known member
efb said:
You over 30's think you had it tough. Color TV, climb into your cushy autos with just two peddles, one to go one to stop. Never new what it was to push in the third peddle and find a gear just right for the speed and load conditions, do you even know what double clutching is ? Just move a lever to get the temp. to suit you. Never had to swelter in the summer with the windows down and the dust coming in faster than air. Go out and climb on your high powered tractors with hydrolics that would lift anything. Do you think you could cut it picking up your winter feed supply by hand ,75 pounds at a time ?? Yea, you over 30's can tell your kids how spoiled they are, but we over 60's know what tough is and we'll be ready when it comes again :p[

I'm 41 and have lived all you speak of efb, heck I'm still living some of it! :lol: :lol:
 

garn

Well-known member
an oldie but a goodie e-mail, I cann't think of the number of times that's been forwarded to me :)

Oh, guess what I got for Christmas last year? An old school Atari game system, complete with the paddle joysticks along with the crappy picture and sound 8)
 

MsSage

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Record players were how I listened to music......78 then 45 then wwwhhoooo 33 1/2. You could NEVER pick up the needle wihout scratching the record :cry: Grandparents had a wind up record player I alweays thought was cool. But I was never allowed to put my records on it.....they said theirs wouldnt play the new stuff LOL
 

Soapweed

Well-known member
per said:
The TV had 2 channels and was black and white when I grew up. The telephone was shared with 5 families. The seat backs on the school bus weren't padded. Yikes, I'm not that much older. Things have changed very quickly.

There was only one channel for our TV. Reception was not black and white but more of a "snowy" color, as the only television station we could even get was was oodles of miles away. As I was just learning to read at the time, "technical difficulties" made a sign come on that said, "Do not adjust your set." My dad got up from the couch to go into the kitchen which worried me. I said, "Dad, you're not supposed to adjust your seat." :roll: :)
 
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