alricflaim
Really Experienced
- Joined
- Nov 22, 2002
- Posts
- 199
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 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 my mid-twenties, I can't
help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it
so fu***n' easy!
I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a g*******d 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--we wanted to know something, we had to go to the g*******d 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 f*****' mailbox and it would take like
a week to get there!
And there were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you
had to go to the goddamned record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the
DJ would usually talk over the beginning and f*** it all up! >>You want to hear about hardship?
You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless
dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11!
Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy s*** 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 didn't know!!! 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 ass!
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 LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium
seating! All the seats were the same height! 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 f*** I'm saying!?! We had
to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little b**tards!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it
too easy.
You're spoiled, I swear to God! You guys wouldn't last five minutes
back in 1984!
I got this in my email this morning and thought I'd share. *grins*
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 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 my mid-twenties, I can't
help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it
so fu***n' easy!
I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a g*******d 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--we wanted to know something, we had to go to the g*******d 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 f*****' mailbox and it would take like
a week to get there!
And there were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you
had to go to the goddamned record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the
DJ would usually talk over the beginning and f*** it all up! >>You want to hear about hardship?
You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless
dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11!
Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy s*** 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 didn't know!!! 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 ass!
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 LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium
seating! All the seats were the same height! 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 f*** I'm saying!?! We had
to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little b**tards!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it
too easy.
You're spoiled, I swear to God! You guys wouldn't last five minutes
back in 1984!
I got this in my email this morning and thought I'd share. *grins*
