A Generation Comparison

[.Cee 50]

A funny comparison to the Old Generation:

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 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 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 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 MP3's 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 would

usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!

And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download porn!

You had to steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to

buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options!

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 Play Station video games with

high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like

"Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics sucked arse!

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 onscreen 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 wait ALL WEEK for

cartoons!

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!

LMAO

[Kez 2,727]

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would

usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!

Hahah im guilty of that one

[BlueLion. 21,491]

They hadn't invented the wheel when my dad was a kid, no wonder why he despises the youth these days