If you're 30 and older

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 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 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 ...we wanted to
know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up
ourselves!

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 MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to go
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 f@#* it all up!

You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download p**n! You
had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "H**tler" at the!
7-11! Those were your options!

We didn't have fancy crap 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 drug
dealer, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your
chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Play station videogames with
high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like
"Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass! 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! If a tall guy sat i! n
front of you and you couldn't see you were just screwed!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20
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! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning... .D'ya hear
what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bratts!

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 and shake it over the stove like an idiot
forever.

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!

Ha ha, having reached the great 30th birthday this year, that tickled me!

I especially like the bit about taping off the radio....or when I was about 8 I used to sit my tape recorder in front of the television and tape the best songs off of Top of The Pops - so not only did you have the DJ/presenter messing up the start with his comments, but I also had the sound of my parent's coughing and turning the pages of the newspaper all the way through :-D

Lol :) Hit 31 this year i remember taping Bros songs (yep was in love with matt goss) off the radio :)
My son got a ps2 for xmas and he got a game with it and it has all the old stuff on it i had great fun plaing it and he just thought it was c**p because the people were square the cars were square graphics rubbish ect i played on it for hours :)
Everything you just said is bloody true mind kids eh!!

>Sure, we had cable television,

No, we still don't, and 30 was a disturbingly long time ago!

SHAZZA (KEELEY) HAVE YOU READ THIS????? Your turning 30 soon so get used to it!!!!

was 31 last week...LOL

Ya that big 30, eeeeeeeeeeew turning 32 this year Does it ever end lol :D