This is Funny, I remember hearing this about the 30's when I was a kid:

The Spoiled 30+ Crowd

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!
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
our 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"and the graphics were horrible!
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 *** 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, you spoiled little
bastards!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to
heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a fire ..
imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid
JiffyPop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kidstoday have got it
too easy. You're spoiled.

You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back
in 1980!

Regards,

The over 30 Crowd

 

37 - I can recall every bit of this. I had an Atari and enviedthose with an Intellivision. The graphics were so much better, but I could never work the controller. I also remember upgrading from a "pulse" to a "tone" phone.

 

i can remember those, of course i wasn't a kid at the time i was about 40. now want to talk about hard times.......let me tell you about my childhood...................

 

Gee I'm 50, Let me tell some stories........................Jrsess

 

ok I'm 66 are you ready for this..???????????????

 

The 80's rule................................ok.....maybe not.................... . . ............

 

I'm 57 and lived in the sticks when I was a kid.........if you wanted to use the phone you'd pick it up and wait for the operatorto say "number please"...........no color tv......no A/C.......a big night out was with mom and pops at the A&W ..............and yea we really did walk to a one room country school in the rain the snow and...... oh wait..........hot lunch was a potato mom sent with you wrapped in aluminum foil that the teacher carefully placed on top of the coal fired potbelly in the back of the class room...........on and on and on..........man life sure was good back then

 

Cable TV? Hell, we didnt even have a COLOR TV when I was young. We had three channels and they went off the air at night.

 

and everybody in the family sure didn't have their own television in their bedroom. We all had tosit together in theliving room and actually agree on what program to watch. Imagine that!

 

Yeah, I remember us getting our first color television..

I even remember when we stopped using the outhouse and switched to an indoor bathroom. ...

And I'm not even...old.


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