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, 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 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'. 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 on screen 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 Jiffy Pop 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

Amen you said it all

im 18 and i would have lasted just fine in the 80's even the 70's and 60's i think it was better back then

Hey....it's not just for the over 30 crowd lol I'm almost 26 and I remember all that stuff lol Actually, I miss the card catalog system, it was almost easier that way. I remember taping songs off the radio, fully miss the tv guide (it actually shows what's coming on throughout the week...not within the next 12 hrs, and you can see what you missed! I hate turning something on 5 minutes before it ends, going "wow I wanna see that!" and then not being able to find out what it is because it's gone past the 30 or 60 min mark and will only show what's coming on next )

I miss Saturday morning cartoons...back when cartoons were CARTOONS and bunnies and martians ruled the screen (generally without speaking lines). Now you've got smart mouthed characters with perverse minds and even more perverse senses of humor (Chowder..Ed, Edd n Eddy...) I do believe Ren and Stimpy, Beevis and Butthead and Southpark were the ultimate downfall markers of quality cartoons. It's sad when cartoons have to come with ratings and child advisory warnings (and that's not talking about anime...that's something else entirely and I must say I love me some anime)

When "boring" rainy days were spent with a good book, and if the words "I'm bored" came out of your mouth...mom and dad found good quality toilets to scrub, floors to mop and rooms to clean. (maids?...haha!! That's funny! It's called chores, work..if you're old enough to drag it out, you're old enough to put it back!)

Cell phones didn't exist...when it got dark you better be at home or be prepared for a spanking and good long grounding. No calling home from the park to "check in". You'd better be calling from a friend's house to say you're staying for dinner, and their parent better talk to your parent or you're in some trouble!

Frankly...I miss those days. lol

Here's to ya Amen bro!

We didn't have damn Cell Phone either, NO TEXTING a friend... jeez..