Score 1 for the old folks. (warning...long read.)

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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 through
year round blizzards carrying their younger siblings on their backs to their
one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a Straight-A average despite
their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where they worked
for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death!
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 don't know how good you've got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't
have the Internet. When we wanted to know something, we had to go to the
damn library and look it up ourselves!

There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter. With an
actual 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 MP3s
or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to go 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 messed it all
up!

You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to
bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the
7-11! Those were your options.

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and
somebody else called they got a busy signal! 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 boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn't
know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy Sony PlayStation videogames, either, with
high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space
Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked! Your guy was a little
square! You 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 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 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 20 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! You could only
get cartoons on Saturday Morning... D'ya hear what I'm saying!?! We had to
wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards!

We didn't have microwaves; if we wanted to heat something up we had to use
the stove imagine that! If we wanted popcorn we had to use that stupid
jiffy pop and shake it over the stove like an idiot forever. 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!

Damn! I feel old!!!!!
 
Hell YEA I'm 34 I'm not an old fart.... yet... :D
 
I'm 35 and let me tell ya...it's all down hill from here brother... ;)
 
Wolf said:
We didn't have microwaves; if we wanted to heat something up we had to use
the stove imagine that! If we wanted popcorn we had to use that stupid
jiffy pop and shake it over the stove like an idiot forever. 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!

ROFL I LOVED JIFFY-POP!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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