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[VTXLady53]

If you are 30, or older, you might 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... Barefoot... 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 my 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! 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 Cranberries! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If 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 would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% 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 then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?

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!

There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOD!!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

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 parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen 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 Cranberries and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!

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-finks!

And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!

And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!

And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!

See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or any time before!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

[HeadGuess]

I remember when stamps were less than .10.

Good post.

[xcaliber]

I was 9 before I ever rode in an air conditioned car. Our house did not have AC just fans in the windows. Would sleep outside alot in the summer. only rich folks have carpeted floors or carpet grass in the yard. our house had linoleum floors and caliche dirt with goat heads inthe yard. Y'all Centex folks are aquainted with the deadly goathead.

[big daddy bear]

HEY YOU YOUNG WHIPPER-SNAPPERS---DID NOT HAVE T V  TILL I WAS 22 YO--USED TO GO DOWN TO THE FURNITURE STORE & WATCH THROUGH THE WINDOW--DID NOT HAVE AN A/C CAR TILL I WAS 28 YO--BOUGHT A HOUSE IN 1967 THAT CAME WITH ONE WINDOW A/C--YEAH KIDS REALLY DO HAVE IT MADE THESE DAYS--BY THE WAY I STILL CAN'T GET THE HANG OF THESE NEW CONTRAPTIONS CALLED COMPUTERS--HAD TO GET MY GRANDSON TO TYPE THIS FOR ME !!!

[hangman]

HEY YOU YOUNG WHIPPER-SNAPPERS---DID NOT HAVE T V  TILL I WAS 22 YO--USED TO GO DOWN TO THE FURNITURE STORE & WATCH THROUGH THE WINDOW--DID NOT HAVE AN A/C CAR TILL I WAS 28 YO--BOUGHT A HOUSE IN 1967 THAT CAME WITH ONE WINDOW A/C--YEAH KIDS REALLY DO HAVE IT MADE THESE DAYS--BY THE WAY I STILL CAN'T GET THE HANG OF THESE NEW CONTRAPTIONS CALLED COMPUTERS--HAD TO GET MY GRANDSON TO TYPE THIS FOR ME !!!

Man you old Geezers! - actually we had lanoleum also  with planked wood paneling - one attic fan and it was a big deal when my folks broke down and added a window unit in their bed room.  My brother and I shared one room at the other end of the hall and we didn't have tv till I can't remember when.  I grew up in Beaumont and we used to turn the outside lights on and watch the green tree frogs catch insects for evening entertainment.

Any one familiar with Beaumont or the gulf coast knows how hot and muggy it can be but we never noticed it.

[Lucky]

we used to turn the outside lights on and watch the green tree frogs catch insects for evening entertainment.

Wayne and I still do that every evening at our house on the back french doors.

[jedishon]

I remember the phone being a party line. If you wanted to make a call you had to wait until they were done.
I remember milk being delivered and left outside in glass bottles. If you didn't hear him knock you got sour milk that week.
I remember playing outside till it got to dark to see, never worrying about molesters, murderers, or anything else.
The good old days.

[hipshot]

I still play outside 'til it gets too dark to see. But I'm looking for molesters, murderers, or anything else.

[DavidJ]

I still play outside 'til it gets too dark to see. But I'm looking for molesters, murderers, or anything else.

Go get 'em Jim.

I and also remember being outside all day till dark playing cowboys and Indians or army.  I never see the kids in the neighborhood playing C&I or army any more.

[Lucky]

I remember walking to school, and it was around 30 minutes away...do any kids still walk to school?  Could this play a part in the obesity issue we have now?  They don't go outside to play or get any exercise.

[hipshot]

"I never see the kids in the neighborhood playing C&I or army any more."

Yeah, now they're playing drugs & thugs -- with real guns and live ammunition.