> 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
>
> .. Up hill...
>
> 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 catalogue!!
>
> Then queue at the Photostat machine - no one owned a printer
> at home. - What a luxury to print! We also had to write out
> all our assignments by hand - no quickly 'type it up'
> business.
>
> Back then typing was also a 'Subject' at school - and only
> girls did typing. And if you f ---- up or made a spelling
> error - no 'spell check' or 'undo typing' on your tool bar -
> you had to type up the dam thing from scratch - certainly had
> to be an A+ speller.
>
> 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 buy a stamp and put it in the mailbox and it would
> take like a week to get there!
>
> Back then corporal punishment at schools was part of life -
> getting a couple of jacks were the norm - and your Mom and Dad
> usually sided with the teacher. Today they can't touch your
> ass!
>
>
> 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 talk over the beginning and @#*% it all
> up!!!!
>
> No GPS - Had to be able to look it up on a map - and know your
> north from your south.
>
> We did photos the old fashion way - on film - then handed it
> in and had to wait a week for it to get back from the lab -
>
>
> 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 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 Playstation 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. The game just kept getting Harder and
> harder and Faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
>
> Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only
> m-net and there was no on screen 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 ror cartoons, you spoiled
> little rat-b?..s!
>
> And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something
> up we had to use the stove ... Imagine that!
>
> When we went on holiday - We had to sing songs, play 'eye spy'
> or if you're lucky had a pack of supper trumps cards - no
> in-car DVD player to shorten the trip through the karoo or
> Freestate. - I forget we also had to pack in 'Pad kos' cause
> there were no service stations with add on wimpy's or
> convenient stores - you coul= d only get petrol from a petrol
> station.
>
> Also shops were closed on Sundays - and certainly couldn't buy
> wine on a Sunday - let alone go to a Mr.Price - didn't exist
> then.
>
> We all got the dam chicken pocks, measles and mumps - no
> vaccines for that - our parents voluntarily exposed us to the
> dreaded illnesses. With the line 'best to get it over with
> when they are young'
>
>
> 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 30+ Crowd
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that sure bought back some memories...!! 
Originally Posted by CB ARGH
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