OMG that is so true and so funny! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:53 PM Subject: spoiled brats
> 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 my > >kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! > > > >But....Now that I've reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine, I > can't > >help but look around and notice the youth of today. > >You've got it so stinkin' 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 library and look it up > >ourselves! > > > >And there was no email! We had to actually write somebody a > >letter-with a pen!--and then you had to walk all the way across > the > >street and put it in the stinkin' mailbox and it would take like > a week > >to get there! > > > >And there were no MP3s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal > music, you > >had to go to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or we had > to > >wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually > talk > >over the beginning and screw it all up! > > > >You want to hear about hardship? > > > >You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some > >homeless dude to buy nyou a copy of "Hustler" at the > 7-11! It was > >either that or the lingerie section of the JC Penney catalog! > Those > >were your options! > > > >We didn't have fancy stuff 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 had no idea! You just had to pick it up and take your chances, > >mister! > > > >And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames > >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 real LIFE!! > > > >When you went to the movie theater there was no such thing > >as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! > >If a tall guy sat in front of you, you were screwed! > > > >And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only > like 20 > >channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little > book > >called a TV Guide to find out what was on! And there was no > Cartoon > >Network! > > > >You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning....... > >D'ya hear what the hell I'm saying!?! > > > >We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little brats! > > > >That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have it > too > >easy. You're spoiled, I swear to God! You guys wouldn't have > >lasted five minutes back in 1984! > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
