OT - To the under 30 crowd from the old folks. (funny and true)

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... 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 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! 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 ass! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If 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 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 the tape would come undone.. Cause - that's how we rolled, 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.. And then there's TEXTING . yeah , right. 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 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 ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!!!

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 WEEKfor 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! Imagine that!

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 or before!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

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Too Funny!

is it bad that being 27 I

is it bad that being 27 I actually remember some of this stuff?? The internet was JUST coming out to private homes when I was a teen, nobody had cellphones,no Mp3 players,and we had nintendo,artari, and later on came Sega. We DID have call waiting but we didn't have caller ID.

Wow...I feel old. lol

This was funny though! lol, and we TOTALLY had a microwave!

"Venting without the desire to look within and improve your situation is simply venting to hear yourself bitch."

oh it was SO irritating when

oh it was SO irritating when I was trying to make a mixed tape and the DJ would talk over the beginning AND they would cut off the end of the song too!! GRRRRR....

All the mixed tapes I gave to my little boyfriends had those stupid interruptions in them!

"Venting without the desire to look within and improve your situation is simply venting to hear yourself bitch."

I agree! I totally remember

I agree! I totally remember that. I was always sitting around trying to tape the songs I liked off the radio. Ha!

30 wasn't bad. It was 40

30 wasn't bad. It was 40 that hit me a little hard. BUT I'm much happier at 40 than I was at 30, so it's all good. Once I got past the actual day, I was fine.
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Turning 30 KILLED ME..... no

Turning 30 KILLED ME..... no lie I took the day off work and laid in bed and just bawled... ALL DAY LONG. It was horrible. So now I'm pushing the big 4-0 next year and I'm thinking it's not going to be nearly as bad as 30 was! LOL I totally feel your pain!!!!

You had to use a little book

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide

------------> What is a TV Guide???

HA! Just kidding! I'm 28 but I still remember all of these! Except maybe the microwave, I don't ever remember being without one of these. I hated waiting for your favorite songs to come on the radio though so you could get them recorded on a cassette...that was THE worst! LOL
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Isn't that the truth DPWB!?

Isn't that the truth DPWB!? At Thanksgiving I used my mom's old electric hand mixer that she received as a wedding present.... my parents have been married for 42 years!!!!! It still works!!!

when I turned 39 (last yr)

when I turned 39 (last yr) all I could think was holy crap, I am gonna be 40 next yr!!
It made me sooooo depressed, but now that I am gonna be a Grandmother 5 months before I turn 40, its kinda looking like 40 isnt so bad.. I am not saying I dont want my daughter to have a baby,I cant wait to sit under my little girls little girl.. I just wish society wouldnt label me like that!! lol

That library crap used to

That library crap used to piss me off! We did have call waiting, a microwave, and at the end of my teens a cell phone (that was as big as a house cordless phone). I am 30 I agree, the technology that has come out in the last 10-15 years alone amazes me! And its all for entertainment/convience purposes, which means $$$$!!!

"I child proofed my whole house, but they STILL get in!"

YIKES!! My kids don't have

YIKES!! My kids don't have that concept at all. The occasional hiccup with their cell phones or the Internet being shut off or passwords changed so that can't even get on. Biggest suck it moment is them using their cells to voice complaints to XI. Which pretty much is only the BD15-funny that that has bitten her in the butt more than once when dad told her to slow her roll talking to or about her momma like she does. DBF's kids are being raised like shrooms (kept in the dark fed crap)though-he got on me about them having techno toys to keep them busy. Well, since you arent teaching them not to throw the cars, legos or whatever is handy to launch across the room you should get them devices that keep them singularly busy and people would still have their teeth and there wouldnt be near the bloodshed as there has been to date. It's all good though-he runs his space like he does and I run mine my way-take it or leave it

**I only have one shot at a truly great life and not one spent waiting for a man to notice me, want me, love me and be true to only me. 2010 is the year of "me" - if you don't want to be a has-been in '10 where I'm concerned better get it in gear and catch up**

We didn't have

We didn't have air-conditioning for a long time - just ceiling fans and one window unit in the kitchen. It was HOT during the summer and you couldn't sleep. I remember when my parents got central air - ahhhhhh!! It was the best thing ever!
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Mine have definitely

Mine have definitely experienced life without good ole AC-the trailers duct work is practically non-existant so they had to make do. But funny thing-no AC there is how I potty trained the BD5. LOL-how country am I we let her run naked in the house. She actually learned really fast-had her ready by her 2nd birthday.

I didn't have central

I didn't have central heat/air until 2000 when I married DH!! My parents only 2 YEARS AGO got a window unit!! LOL! I had no idea what it was like to have home air conditioning!!

Ha, this reminds me. Me and

Ha, this reminds me. Me and BF rented a Uhaul back when he was moving in with me, and we stopped by a furniture store to purchase two cabinets for the skids. As we were walking out of the store, my daughter decides she wants to unlock the Uhaul, so she asks where the button was on the key to unlock it......she thought it was very strange that the Uhaul had to be *manually* unlocked! LOL

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Thanks for sharing this!

Thanks for sharing this! Turning 40 this year, and this makes me feel it:)
On the microwave subject,I remember my parents getting one in my teens.....my Dad still has that huge beast! They just dont make them like that anymore.....I cant count how many microwaves I have had to replace.
Remember when VCR's first came out.....two kinds one was beta, if you got a beta you were screwed because they stopped producing beta tapes?

OMG, I just remembered

OMG, I just remembered getting my first CD player! AND our first DVD player! We only had 2 DVD's to watch unless we went to rent some...all of our movies were still on VHS!

"Venting without the desire to look within and improve your situation is simply venting to hear yourself bitch."

I'm only 25 and I still

I'm only 25 and I still remember some of this stuff. That's because when I was growing up some of this stuff was out, but wasn't as prevalent as it is now. Nine year old didn't have cell phones when I was young. We didn't get a DVD player until about 2000/2001, and we couldn't afford new game systems.

Also, does anyone remember a ditto master? Before they had copy machines at school they had the "ditto master." The pages came out with like the purplish blurry ink...

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What is this 'library' and

What is this 'library' and 'cassettes' that you speak of? My grandfather makes a point at every get together to remind me of all the things that he didn't have when he was young. I'm beginning to think he was dropping hints because he got his first HD tv and DvD player for Christmas...