Back When I was a Kid...

I found this in my inbox today and thought others might enjoy it as well. ~Stacey

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with theirtedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up;what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning...uphillBOTH ways .through year 'round blizzards. Carrying their youngersiblings on their backs to their one-room schoolhouse, wherethey maintained a Straight-A average despite their full-time, after-school job at the local textile mill ... where they worked for 35 cents anhour just to help keep their family from starving to death!

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was noway in hell I was going to lay a bunch of cr*p like that on kids ...about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But.... Nowthat I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look aroundand notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy!I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a d*mn Utopia! And Ihate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've gotit!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet.....we wantedto know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it upourselves! In the card catalog!! There was no email! We had toactually write somebody a letter....with a pen! Then you had towalk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and itwould take like a week to get there! There were no MP3s or Napsters! Youwanted to steal music, you had to go to the d*mn record store andshoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape itoff the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning andf@#* it all up!

You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download p*rn!You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "H*stler"at the 7-11! Those were your options!

We didn't have fancy sh*t like Call Waiting! If you were on thephone and somebody else called they got a busy signal! And we didn't havefancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no ideawho i t was! It could be your boss, your mom, a collections agent,yourdrug dealer, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and takeyour chances!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Play station videogames withhigh-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games likeSpace Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics s*cked *ss! Yourguy was a little square! You had to use your imagination!And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just onescreen forever! And you could never win, the game just kept getting Harderand faster until you died! ... Just like LIFE!

When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadiumseating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy sat infront of you and you couldn't see you were just scr*wed!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! Youhad to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!You were scr*wed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get offyour *ss and walk over to the TV to change the channel and therewas no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning...D'ya hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiledlittle b*stards!

We didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up ... wehad to use the stove ... imagine that! If we Wanted popcorn...wehad to use that stupid jiffy pop and shake it over the stove like an idiotforever!

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 fiveminutes back in the 80's~!