When I was a kid...
 

This is pretty funny...I hope my editing doesn't lose the flavor...

Ain't this the truth...

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've reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine, (29 -- I wish!) I can't help but
look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so f----- easy!

I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a g-ddamned 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--we wanted to know
something, we had to go to the damned 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 f----- mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

And there were no MP3s or Napster! 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 f--- it all up! (DA Note -- I was a DJ -- we did this on purpose! Take that!))

You want to hear about hardship?

You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to
buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! It was either that or J-----f to
the lingerie section of the JC Penney catalog!

Those were your options!

We didn't have fancy s--t like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and
somebody else called they got a busy signal! You had the option of an
"Emergency Breakthrough" but after a few months of the "Emergency
Breakthrough fever", you could tell the operator started hating your very
existence.

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either!

When the the phone rang, you had no idea who it was it could be your boss,
your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer--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! (800 in my case)

With games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" -- the graphics sucked! 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 no such thing as stadium seating!
All the seats were the same height! A tall guy sat in front of you, you
were screwed!

And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 (or 8 in my little college town)
channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book
called a TV Guide to find out what was on! Or worse yet, you had to
actually look in the newspaper!

And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday
morning...

...D'ya hear what the f--- I'm saying!?!

We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little b------s!

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too
easy. You're spoiled, I swear to God!

You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1984.

(Let alone 1965!!!)

Too long, didn't read. Please keep posts under two paragraphs.

THANKS IN ADVANCE.

That's hilarious, DeltAlum! :D :D :D

Quite true! Thanks for the laugh, DeltAlum! :D

DeltAlum -- great little piece there... I can relate to that, now that I'm on the far side of 30 and rapidly approaching middle age! :D

Old people complain a lot.

-Rudey
--Draft them!

To late. They did that for our generation a whole lot of years ago.

Short attention span?

Yeah but I heard some people left for Canada.

-Rudey
--Do over!!!

When I was a kid I had to walk two miles to have sex and do drugs.

Yah! I was finally able to read one of your posts all the way through!

YAY! :D

Great post and oh so true! :)

True. But I wasn't one of them.

HA! Loved it! I do some of that with my kids. We talk about TV-we had the 3 stations growing up and they all shut down around 12. It was HELL having to babysit with nothing to watch. (I couldn't let myself fall asleep.)

Back on the farm (yee-haw) our phone didn't even have a DIAL!

Girls would hibernate in their dorms, waiting for THAT phone call which NEVER came. When it did ring, it was the jerk you tried avoding all week.

The guys-those poor, poor dears, had to settle for National Geographic or, like you said get some guy to buy it for them.

On movies-
I clearly remember when Romeo and Juliet came out, all the guys RUSHED to the theater to see Olivia Hussey's boobs.
...and all the parents thought the boys had been inspired by Shakespear!

I love it! So true! :D

Well, I really liked the music.

Oh, that was priceless!!!! DeltAlum, I loved the post and justamom, your friends must have been nicer than the kids at my high school! All the girls wanted to go because they'd heard you got a view of Leonard Whiting's butt!!!!!

Carnation and JAM,

When I was in high school (fake ID? ME?), there was a bar at Ohio State called "The Library."

Guess how many of us used "going to The Library" several nights a week?

Didn't even have to mention Shakespear.

hahaha, old people are funny.

Oh Billy, if you are lucky, you too may make it there!:D

Rudey and champ, your sh*t do get underwhelming!

If dont have a retention span, dont read the funnys in the newspaper! Oh, the thing in black and white or are you still doing color in the lines. One of these days you make graduate to color by numbers!

Naw wont happen, have to have some sense and class!

Oh I know you both have class, THIRD, but a lot of it!:rolleyes:

Adieu chillin mister sandman is calling

TTFN!:)

:)

Carnation-All the girls wanted to go because they'd heard you got a view of Leonard Whiting's butt!!!!!
Welllllllll-now that you mention it!

Delt Alum-Guess how many of us used "going to The Library" several nights a week?
...and I bet you kept a straight face all the while!

Yep Billy, old people ARE funny. One day you will be funny too!
(Now you know I'm just joking with you!)

There's a bar in Austin on 6th St called "The Library". I still use that as an excuse even though I'm not in college anymore.

Atari Rocks! I still have mine and about 20 games. I love playing it. I suck at Playstation, but I can beat any Atari game every time. I blame this on poor hand-eye coordination. That's what I get for playing soccer where you can't use your hands. :p

LOL Billy! When you get to be our age, will you want to be over the hill or under it? :D

Back in my days of youth and innocence (Bullsh*t!):

The drinking age was 19, but it was ridiculously easy to get a drink without flashing a fake ID. Guys (and gals) in my class proudly boasting about getting drunk on Mai-Tais, spending our lunch drinking pitchers of cheap beers at a local dive. Or stocking up on potent potables at a drive-up liquor store not far from the high school.

Parties at 85th Street Beach and Haulover in Miami Beach. Cops run us off one place - we'd regroup and continue in another location!

Cable TV that only had about 20 channels and NO remote - just a channel selector slider box connected to the TV. And waiting until your neighborhood was wired up for cable!

No Nintendo, no PlayStation, just Atari 2600, ColecoVision or Mattel's Intellivision. Anyone remember Mattel's Electronic Football? :D

Getting used, cheap muscle cars as your first car. Sucking gas and haulin' a**!

Watching old, overloaded and decrepit propliners and jetliners barely struggle to get off the ground at Miami International on a hot and humid day. (At least you can still see that today!)

South Beach was a senior citizen ghetto and developers were looking for an excuse to raze the whole area (Art Deco be damned) and build new condos.

Watching our high school English teacher use his preferred method of transportation - a skateboard! (He still does it today!)

Hard to believe it's been 20 years since I graduated high school!