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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 Twenty-five miles to school every morning...
Uphill...
Barefoot...
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 **** 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 catalogue!!

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 D.J.'d
usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!

We didn't have fancy **** 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 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'.
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.

packman--didn't move slow - it moved very fast !!!

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!

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.
7;00 am felix the cat
8;00 am scobby do
(that was it !!!)
you washed your breakfast dishes by hand,
dried them, with a towel, and, even put them away,
without having to be told, to do it

then at 9am; in the good weather,
you put together a packed lunch
and,then, got on your damn bike
and, rode it, as fast as you could
to your secret hideout,
back then most children were NOT SEEN,
nor, WHERE they heard LOL
they disappeared for the whole day

and, approx.
one minute before 5pm,
you rode in -- and, there was NO way
for anyone to find you --
or,for anyone to track you --
you went out, and, you did stuff

in the winter,
you walked to the skating rink,
put on your skates, out in the freezing cold,
and, you skated for 4 hours, b4 you came home
you had lunch, and, then,
you went out for anothe 4 hours

Do you Hear what I'm saying!?!

We had to wait ALL WEEK

For cartoons, you spoiled kids.
(and, we only got 2 hrs of them)

And we didn't have microwaves.

If we wanted to heat something up
we had to use the stove....

Imagine that!

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.)

ps; could someone pass the peanuts !!!! LOL