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 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 something (actually, I'm in my late thirties..lol), 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 DJwould usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! Totally remember this!
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 were horrible! 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 12 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 bastards!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a 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
I wish I felt old.............I AM old!
funny, my daughter who's now 29 even say's I'm beginning to sound like my Mum & my daughter is beginning to sound like me, lol.
You know, I feel really really old now :(
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Sounding like my parents crossed my mind too.
of how we were back then. I remember that she freaked out when I told her that cellphone would be taken away for a week (she was grounded) for skipping classes). As if I'm to shave off her hair bald...what a shriek....lol
Yup...those were the good old days...simple needs , simple life...
Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!" - UNKNOWN
the youth of today are soooooooo lucky but try telling them that, they won't listen. Gosh, I'm now sounding like my Mother :)
I remember watching a black & white tv when I was younger. When colour first came out it was so cool. lol
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My parents didn't have a car until shortly before I got married in 1967.
Luckily I had jobs that provided transport. In fact we didn't have an indoor bathroom until I was over 11 years old. The indoor loo didn't happen until I was about 17 and until then the outside loo didn't have electric lighting.
School was only half a mile away but in the snow (snow seemed deeper in those days) it seemed to take forever.
And they call those "the good old days"!
I also experienced walking at least a mile to and from school (rain or shine), no lunch money because father wasn't earning that much.
The tv, radio was acquired by my mom thru a loan shark and paid in monthly installments for several months. We only had an easier life when my father went to work abroad early 1980's...
:-P
Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!" - UNKNOWN
I think RP and Azilana have more modernized days than us Dweller. But like RP, i also walk for mile to reach the school or the market. I am just thankful that at least i catch up knowing how to handle this computer, HA HA!
Lucky you. We didn't have that, only the radio that took about 3 minutes to warm up.
We still do that back home.
We don't have a water heater gadget installed in our parents' house (not that we can't afford it) but my mother is a stickler for the old ways. But in my own apartment, I had one installed, my kids (especially my son) hates cold baths. :-P
She even have a cellphone now but doesn't know how to use the SMS and despite serveral attempts to teach her...she can't or won't. :-P
Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!" - UNKNOWN
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LOL
The Red Pope of Qatar Living
But as Muhammad Ali once said, 'It's not bragging, if you can back it up'."
Dumb azz pope
I have a friend in the PI that has water delivered...
And she has to boil it for bath...
So go to bed dude or I will kick your azz...
Got it...
You can't teach experience...
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Its time to shut up or go to bed OK...
Please
Thank you
You can't teach experience...
YOU PRETTY JEOLOUS 30+....... YOU TOO ENJOY ALL 'Em!!!
"Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do” - Jean Piaget
Azil I know women in the PI that still do that???
You can't teach experience...
That was a good freaking post...
:) double credit...
You can't teach experience...
Well...
Beer is still beer...
Women are still women...
And I can still make them happy...
Some things never change...
:)
You can't teach experience...
Hey we used to pimp our bicycles like it was a hotrod car, we had on abundance of parts and most of the time was our only resource of transportation. Including riding horses...
The Red Pope of Qatar Living
But as Muhammad Ali once said, 'It's not bragging, if you can back it up'."
1- We had to walk to school five miles everyday in the dense humidity, with a ton of freaking heavy text books. No sidewalks, just starlight jungle and sunny beaches, when we decided to take the short cuts, We did not had to worry about people mugging us, except the stupid Bull and cows running loose in the grasslands, if he spotted you, better get ready for a run of your life.
I remember when I bought my first Commodore 64, I felt like an Einstein writing those 200 pages of basic language to record a game of ping pong into a floppy disk.
Ohh yes, No food stamps, either you eat or starve your self.
No milk, just the dreaded powder milk. I could not miss lunch, since it was free at the public schools, because we did not know, If we had food for dinner at home.
Those days when it was real Hot and we just love to have a nice glass of lemonade with ice and cold water only, or fresh warm coconut milk.
Newspaper and Magazines were just our resources of information from the world.
Yes, they are living different days from us.
Spoil brats.....
The Red Pope of Qatar Living
But as Muhammad Ali once said, 'It's not bragging, if you can back it up'."
I remember then...
If I want a warm bath, I had to boil water.
I had to read tons of books to make a very good research paper (the hours of writing it by hand and painstakingly typewriting in.
That mobile cellphones used to be as big as a kid's lunchbox and the handy models are as big as the iceshaver. :-P
The betamax tapes...I think my father still keeps most of it...but we don't have betamax player anymore...lol
Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!" - UNKNOWN
My mom took a pack of meat and made into hamburger patties and put in freezer...
So my meals for the week were to fry em up and put on bread with ketchup.
No freaking microwave to thaw them out...
You had cable???
What was the song??
16 channles of shyt on the tv to choose from...
No typwriter let alone computer LOL
We had a lot of drugs though...:)
Maybe that's how we made it through...
You can't teach experience...
...is that ALL of this is sooooo true!!!!
This is my childhood all wrapped up into one !!!
Enjoy!
Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!" - UNKNOWN