BEV! 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2010 If you are 30, or older, you’ll 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. And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids! 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 have got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but kids today 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 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 walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take 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 my butt! 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 screw it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car and we'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished. Then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! 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 call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOODNESS!!! 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, 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 avatar 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 TV! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to actually get off your butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! How did we survive?!?! 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 A WHOLE WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rats! 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. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores! And car seats - oh, please! Mom t Dad 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 wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or any time before! Regards,The Over 30 Crowd Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MichaelC 160 Report post Posted April 12, 2010 Love it, Bev. Brings back lots of memories, good memories. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vballdarin 1 Report post Posted April 13, 2010 And protective headgear when riding our bicycles.....phooey! Put a band-aid on it, suck it up, and get back to riding! Darin Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MichaelC 160 Report post Posted April 13, 2010 And imagine this: a hot summer day and we would be outside playing all day, hot and dirty and sweaty. Thirsty? No problem. The closest hose was turned on and we all guzzled the water directly from it! And I'm still alive today to tell this story! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BEV! 0 Report post Posted April 13, 2010 But u know what, all in all, WE also had it good back in the days..Take for instance our schools back then - We had REAL cooked meals at lunch time, we actually had a salad bar and breakfast every day(These days, kids don't even know what salad bar looks like.. and if they're lucky they can have a frozen hot dog for lunch at school) - Our P.E class was mandatory or you wouldn't graduate.(These Days, if u don't want to take P.E you still graduate, just sign your parents signature on a excuse letter and we'll look the other way) - We actually exercised for P.E for a whole hour, we played sports non-stop, we would get a good work out every day( These days, P.E is watching TV the whole hour while the coach goes check out the Cheer Leaders) - School Obesity was not a common thing back then.( These days, all u see in schools is Obesity) Bottom line is, our inmates have better diet, better health care, AND the best fitness program available to them FOR FREE than our children (the future of this country) Imagine that!! BEV! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vballdarin 1 Report post Posted April 14, 2010 In elementary school, our library was a broken down little trailer parked next to the building. And I remember, when it was bad weather outside, we pushed all our desks against the 4 walls of our classroom and we had gym class (and even volleyball) IN THE CLASSROOM! Bev......I do have to admit that my main goal in 8th grade was to get all the Cheerleaders to sign my yearbook. I wouldn't trade those all day wiffleball/football/hide and seek games and drinking from the hose for anything. Man....those were the days. Then again....I was turned down by a girl to be my square-dancing partner in 6th grade....so the more things change, the more they remain the same. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MichaelC 160 Report post Posted April 14, 2010 Wiffleball?! One of my favorite games as a kid. Nobody, and I mean nobody, could hit my screwball! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jlspartz 0 Report post Posted May 7, 2010 In elementary school, our library was a broken down little trailer parked next to the building. And I remember, when it was bad weather outside, we pushed all our desks against the 4 walls of our classroom and we had gym class (and even volleyball) IN THE CLASSROOM! LOL, where did you grow up? With Jason in AL? I'm 28, so I was on the line of both the old school and the new school. But, my experience was way different. My schools were like prisons. Seriously. Metal detectors, roaming cops, search dogs, barred windows, gated corridors, recess in the classroom because of crime outside. We couldn't even have scissors. Those weren't the good ol days, LOL. I like to forget where I come from. That is one area I do not want to be doing REI. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
