>> 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 >> 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 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 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 ass! 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 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 or go build a >> frigging fire . >> imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use >> that stupid JiffyPop 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
Yeh. I saw more kids under high school age playing outside in my day than I do now. The percentage of kids in bad physical condition for lack of activity keeps rising over the years. No thanks to cable TV, video gaming and the internet :evil:
It's unfortunate when at 30 years old there are some which have either already forgotten that - or feel as though they can afford to ignore what they once knew (see above). Just as before (and as will probably be the case in the future) each advance comes with it's own set of problems - problems that someone over 30 may have become immune to, or (more likely the case) mistakenly believe they've become immune to, only to find out later (and with much greater impact) that their percieved immunity was either only temporary or perhaps even only imagined. I'd suggest that it might be more productive to try and help with the problems that still exist rather than to cast aspersions on gratitude of those who have to live with the problems that haven't yet been solved - in addition to those that have been more recently created.
Goddam teenagers!.........Get off my lawn I admit to becoming exactly what I never thought I would become
