Fred
01-06-2003, 03:54 PM
Another one I got in email - Unfortunately, I fall in the top group.
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
through year 'round blizzards carrying their younger siblings on their
backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a straight-A
average despite their full-time after-school job at the local textile
mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their
family from starving to death!
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there was no way
I was going to lay a bunch of stuff like that on kids about how
hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But....
Now that I've passed 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 darn 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 library and look it up
ourselves!
And there was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter with
a pen! And 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!
And there were no MP3s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you
had to go to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd
usually talk over the beginning and mess it all up!
You want to hear about hardship??????
We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone
and somebody else called they got a busy signal!
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 boss, your mom, a
collections agent, your parole officer, you didn't know!!!
You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames with
high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like
"Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics stank! Your guy
was a little square! You 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 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! A tall guy sat in front of
you, tough!
And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20
channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book
called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on
Saturday morning......
D'ya hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you
spoiled little kids!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too
easy.
You're spoiled, I swear ! You guys wouldn't last five minutes
back in 1990!
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
through year 'round blizzards carrying their younger siblings on their
backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a straight-A
average despite their full-time after-school job at the local textile
mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their
family from starving to death!
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there was no way
I was going to lay a bunch of stuff like that on kids about how
hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But....
Now that I've passed 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 darn 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 library and look it up
ourselves!
And there was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter with
a pen! And 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!
And there were no MP3s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you
had to go to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd
usually talk over the beginning and mess it all up!
You want to hear about hardship??????
We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone
and somebody else called they got a busy signal!
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 boss, your mom, a
collections agent, your parole officer, you didn't know!!!
You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames with
high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like
"Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics stank! Your guy
was a little square! You 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 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! A tall guy sat in front of
you, tough!
And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20
channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book
called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on
Saturday morning......
D'ya hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you
spoiled little kids!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too
easy.
You're spoiled, I swear ! You guys wouldn't last five minutes
back in 1990!