Under 30

[sg_lab2]

I got this from my sister today.

Too funny, but oh so true...



If you are 30 or older you will think this is
hilarious!!!!
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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
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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
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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
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damn Utopia!
and I hate to say it but you kids today you don't
know how good you've
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got it!
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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 darn library
and look it up
ourselves, in the card catalog!!
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There was no email! ! We had to actually write
BR somebody a letter ...
with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way
across the street and put
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it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to
get there!
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There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to
steal music, you had to
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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
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over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
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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!
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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 t o pick it up and take
your chances, mister!
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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
sucked! Your guy
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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!
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And you could never win. The game just kept
getting harder and harder
and faster and faster until you died! . Just like
LIFE!
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When you went to the movie theater there no such
thing as stadium
seating!
If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in
front of you and you
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couldn't see, you were just screwed!
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Sure, we had cable television, but back then that
was only like 15
channels and there was no onscreen menu and no
remote control! You had
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to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out
what was on!
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You were screwed when it came to channel surfing!
You had to get off
your butt 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 ... !
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And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to
heat something up we
had to use the stove or go build a doggone fire
...
imagine that! If we
wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy
Pop thing and shake it
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over the stove forever like an idiot.
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That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids
today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled.
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You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in
1980!
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Regards,
The over 30 Crowd

Comments

[sg-lab.livejournal.com]

Well, the fifteen channels is for cable. Otherwise it's about four or five channels when I was a kid. Fox came oh about twenty years ago. It was years before my family got cable though.