I thought this was cool 
For the 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 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 I was going to lay a bunch of baloney like that
> on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they have 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 Utopia!
> And I hate to say it, but you kids today don't know how good you
> have 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, in the card catalog!!
>
> There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter,
> with a pen!
>
> Then we 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! Stamps were 10
> cents!
>
> Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us.
> As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission
> to kick our rear!
>
> No where was safe!
>
> There were no MP3' s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you
> had to hitchhike to the 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 foul it all up!
>
>
> There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd
> play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would
> come undone cause that's how we rolled, dig?
>
> We didn't have fancy stuff 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 duff and walk over to the TV to change the
> channel! 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 rats!
>
> 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 it
> too easy! You're spoiled. You wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in
> 1980 or before!
>
> Regards,
> The over 30 Crowd
>
>
>
For the 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 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 I was going to lay a bunch of baloney like that
> on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they have 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 Utopia!
> And I hate to say it, but you kids today don't know how good you
> have 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, in the card catalog!!
>
> There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter,
> with a pen!
>
> Then we 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! Stamps were 10
> cents!
>
> Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us.
> As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission
> to kick our rear!
>
> No where was safe!
>
> There were no MP3' s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you
> had to hitchhike to the 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 foul it all up!
>
>
> There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd
> play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would
> come undone cause that's how we rolled, dig?
>
> We didn't have fancy stuff 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 duff and walk over to the TV to change the
> channel! 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 rats!
>
> 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 it
> too easy! You're spoiled. You wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in
> 1980 or before!
>
> Regards,
> The over 30 Crowd
>
>
>
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