TurboTer
Zap! Commander
- Joined
- May 24, 2001
- Messages
- 1,578
> 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 I was going to lay that on kids about how hard I had it and
> how easy they've got it!
>
> But....
>
> Now that I've reached 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 Utopia!
>
> And I hate to say it but you kids today 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 library and
> look it up ourselves!
>
> And there was no email!
> We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen!
> And 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!
>
> And there were no MP3s or Napsters!
> If you wanted to steal music, you had to go to the record store
> and shoplift it yourself! Or, we had to wait around all day to
> tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the
> beginning and mess it all up!
>
> You want to hear about hardship?
>
> We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting!
> If you were on the phone and somebody else called,
> they got a busy signal!
>
> 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 boss, your Mom, a collections agent, you didn't know!!!
>
> You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
>
> And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames 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 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
> faster until you died!
>
> Just like LIFE!
>
> When you went to the movie theater, there was no such thing as
> stadium seating! All the seats were the same height!
> If a tall guy sat in front of you, you watched his hairstyle!
>
> And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only
> like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use
> a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
>
> And there was no Cartoon Network!
> You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning...
> D'ya hear what I'm saying!?!
>
> We had to wait ALL WEEK!
>
> That's exactly what I'm talking about!
> You kids today have got it too easy.
>
> You're spoiled!
>
> You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1984!
>
> 30ish Author Unknown
> 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 I was going to lay that on kids about how hard I had it and
> how easy they've got it!
>
> But....
>
> Now that I've reached 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 Utopia!
>
> And I hate to say it but you kids today 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 library and
> look it up ourselves!
>
> And there was no email!
> We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen!
> And 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!
>
> And there were no MP3s or Napsters!
> If you wanted to steal music, you had to go to the record store
> and shoplift it yourself! Or, we had to wait around all day to
> tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the
> beginning and mess it all up!
>
> You want to hear about hardship?
>
> We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting!
> If you were on the phone and somebody else called,
> they got a busy signal!
>
> 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 boss, your Mom, a collections agent, you didn't know!!!
>
> You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
>
> And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames 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 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
> faster until you died!
>
> Just like LIFE!
>
> When you went to the movie theater, there was no such thing as
> stadium seating! All the seats were the same height!
> If a tall guy sat in front of you, you watched his hairstyle!
>
> And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only
> like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use
> a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
>
> And there was no Cartoon Network!
> You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning...
> D'ya hear what I'm saying!?!
>
> We had to wait ALL WEEK!
>
> That's exactly what I'm talking about!
> You kids today have got it too easy.
>
> You're spoiled!
>
> You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1984!
>
> 30ish Author Unknown
One guy at work says he likes it when his daughter brings her friends over the house! Now that's pushing it a bit, but it's still funny! 
