I always hate when my email is filled with forwarded messages. I usually just
delete then and very rarely pass them on. This one, that my cousin sent me,
really had me laughing! Some of you might be too young to fully appreciate it
and then some of you will say, "hey, you under 40/50/60 folks really had it
made because ...." Maybe you will get a chuckle or maybe you will be mad that I
sent this to you but I do hope this gives you something to laugh about!
Subject: THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
To:
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008, 9:37 PM
THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
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 25
miles to school every morning ...uphill 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 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 30, 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!
There were no MP3s or Napsters! 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'd
usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
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! 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
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!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium
seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad
with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and
there was no on screen menu and no remote control! 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 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 w ait
ALL WEEK for 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 or go build a frigging fire... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we
had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like
an idiot.
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!
Regards,
The over 30 Crowd
(Send this to someone you'd like to make smile, whether they are under 30 or
not)
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