Over 30 to Appreciate!

[Lawndart]

Found this on the net!


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 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'm almost 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'd usually talked over the beginning and messed 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 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!
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, you spoiled little twirps!

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!

[RamRod]

OMG LD! Hilarious!! However, at the same time, kinda scary how dependent we have become to technology.

I can remember my first discovery on the 2600. On startup hit power on, and at the same time press reset = double fire rate

first cable tv I remember was called "ON TV"

[necigrad]

The card catalog! I actually just watched Ghostbusters the other night and wasz thinking that kids nowadays would wonder what the card catalog was. And then there was the always out of date encyclopedias, all 15 volumes.

Man, I spent HOURS sitting recording, and then rewinding just to get that ONE song from the radio. And sometimes, I even recorded it off of MTV. MUSIC television! What a great idea! Whatever happened to MTV? It used to be videos videos, some MUSIC news, videos, videos, Remote Control, videos, Headbangers Ball...

And rotary phones. Ever dial a 1-800 or long distance and screw up on like number eight?

Video games. One word: PONG!

Remember those first cable remotes? Corded, push button,a nd when you pushed another button the old one popped back out?

[Gunner]

I'm really aging myself here, but I sold computers for a couple years back when an IBM "business system" ran off an 8.5" floppy, had 56k of ram, and cost $13,000! Years later, I had to be the first kid on the block with a car phone - as big as a suitcase in my trunk, and cost $1,500
(And I did have to walk to school though the snow )

[Rhino]

I'm really aging myself here, but I sold computers for a couple years back when an IBM "business system" ran off an 8.5" floppy, had 56k of ram, and cost $13,000! Years later, I had to be the first kid on the block with a car phone - as big as a suitcase in my trunk, and cost $1,500
(And I did have to walk to school though the snow )

And the creditors are still loving you!!!
JK!!!

[Ells]

Excellent find and all true, especially the snow and the school calling bits lmao

[LorenMonaco]

Dont forget the party line that everyone had

[StarScream]

LOL maybe I'm an odd duck out but I remember pretty much all that stuff.. and im only 22...