Under 30?? You Dang KIDS have it MADE!!!

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 yada,yada, yada!

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!And I was sitting here last nite thinking about

How spoiled my kids are & their friends So I of course

Decided to hop up on my Tara Soap box & get a few things

Off my chest...... now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty,

I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today

My kids INCLUDED) 

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 catalog!! 

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 Napters! 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 usually talk over the beginning and @*% it all up!

(those over 30 Don't Laugh You know you did it too.. LOL)

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 like 'Space 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 same height! 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 a$$ 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 BASTXXRDS!

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!

Oh yea, and a seat belt was Mom throwing her arm across your chest

every time she hit the brakes and most of the time 

You could catch ME Riding in the back window of the car

all the way down the interstate to the beach!!!!!!!!!!

Regards,

The over 30 Crowd