THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

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... barefoot...

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! 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!

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! 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 (Send this to someone you'd like to make smile, whether they are under 30 or not.)

I may be under 30, but a lot applies to me too!  LOL

I still dont have a Playstation (cries) lol

Good Good Email!

lol, that made me laugh!

hehehe :)

(note how the three replies are from under 30's lol)

LMAO!!!! Sooo true!!

I'm considerably over 30 and the 'before' bits sound a doddle, never mind the other bits!!!

LMAO :-D

I remember how exited i was when we got our first CD player, that was just so high-tec - no rewinding tapes, or unraveling them to try to get the twisted bit strait ,LOL

Something in our favour was how many sweets you could get in a mix-up, because they were half a penny each!!! Oh and we had £1 notes - I felt rich if I had one of them!

Very funny and sooooo true!!!Kids today eh?

Anothing under 30 here and most of it still applies- I still remember taping songs from the radio, getting up at 6am to watch Saturday morning cartoons and my first ever CD player! My parents made me answer the phone every time, very formally- just in case it was someone important or more importantly someone to avoid. I did grow up in rural Australia though, they must be about 10 years behind the times- my stint in London has caught me up somewhat :-P

I remember as a child when microwaves first came out, they were so space age and all over the news.  It seemed like they cooked food by magic.  I've also just recently returned to driving after a break of nearly 20 years.....where did that 5th gear come from?...............it wasn't there when I first learned in my Dad's rusty old Ford Cortina.....feels so weird.

Technology advances soooo quickly. (either that or I'm just getting old lol)

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL US KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE  1920s, 30s 40s, 50s,  & 60s  !! 

Why????
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.  Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints. We slept on our stomachs and there were no baby alarms in our rooms because they were shared with our brothers and sisters.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts, booster seats or air bags.
When our parents went to the pub for a drink we were left outside with a bag of crisps and no-one abducted us.We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from Bottle
Take way food was bread and jam,fish and chips or pie and chips. No Pizza Hut, McDonalds, KFC, Wimpy, or Subway.

We ate meals all together as a family. We all ate the same thing and no-one starved because they couldn't eat the meal.
Even though all the shops closed at 5.30pm and didn't open on Sundays, somehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy fruit Spangles, Love Hearts, Fruit Polos, Palm Toffee, Gob Stoppers and Black Jacks and Flying Saucers.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in them, but we weren't overweight because......  
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were OK.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and cubby holes and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

We explored streams and ponds, woods and abandoned places, and never drown or got lost.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendos, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound. We either had no TV at all or else it was strictly limited to 2 channels and one hour of children's TV a night.
We had no TVs or Computers in our bedrooms.
We read comics and books and learnt to make them last.
There were no mobile   phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms.....BUT.....WE HAD REAL FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
Lawsuits from these accidents.
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt and the worms did not live in us forever. You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time.......no really! 

And in December, there was only one festive holiday.. CHRISTMAS .......   and everyone wished each other  MERRY CHRISTMAS! and NOT....   HAPPY HOLIDAYS..... take it or leave it!
We were given air rifles and Catapults for our 10th birthdays,
We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!

RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT AND NOT DUE TO BLACKMAIL, THREATS AND GUILT FROM THE PAST.....  strange but true!

Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather straps and bulliesalways ruled the playground at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kylie' and 'Brooklyn' and 'Paris' and
'FiFi Trixibelle'

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 70 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives 'for our own good.'
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
PS -The large type is because your eyes are short-sighted at your age!

> Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kylie' and 'Brooklyn' and 'Paris' and
> 'FiFi Trixibelle'

That is ace!!!!

What's a Napster????

I'm amazed I survived,
and I was fed National Dried

> What's a Napster????

I was wondering that too? :-p

Lol sooo true, good old days :-)

lol very funny!

That is sooo true, brought back some lovely memories. here are a couple more

No Central Heating, just an old fashioned range coal fire that had to be blackleaded twice a week.  It did not heat the room at all.

Making "lollys" out of melted tar between the cobbles on the road LOL!!! especially wearing white, got thumped for that LOL !!!! That was when we had summers.

No supermarkets, just corner shops with the huge slabs of butter, wrapped in greaseproof paper.  Oh !! the memories when I was a child.

> What's a Napster????

Is it a website that you can down load all your tunes from????