Someone sent this to me, probably the older folks would be the ones to find this funny.
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> 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...
> Barefoot... BOTH ways… yadda, yadda, yadda
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> 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 my kids about
> how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
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> 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!!
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> 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!
> Stamps were 10 cents!
>
> Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a
> matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to
> kick our ***! Nowhere was safe!
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> There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal
> music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it
> yourself!
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> 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! There were
> no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite
> tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone
> rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?
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> 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!
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> There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house,
> you just didn't make a damn call or receive one.
> You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOD !!!
> Think of the horror... Not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And
> then there's TEXTING.
> Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.
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> 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 parents, your
> boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... You just
> didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
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> We didn't have any fancy play Station or Xbox video games with
> high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like
> 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen 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!
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> 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!!! NO
> REMOTES!!!
> Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!
>
> 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 rat-finks!
>
> And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we
> had to use the stove! Imagine that!
>
> And our parents told us to stay outside and play... All day long. Oh,
> no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back
> inside... You were doing chores!
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> And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you
> hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest
> at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit
> the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the
> first place!
> See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it
> too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five
> minutes back in 1980 or any time before!
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> Regards,
> The Over 30 Crowd