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[QUOTE=TonyB06;1419211]If you are 30 ....

HELLO!! I'm not 30 yet (got three years to go) but a lot of this I can relate to.

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 musty-a** library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog and the friggin' duey-decimal system! And if you couldn’t find it you had to deal with the crusty attitude of that old a** librarian lady, who was like 68 years old and had that chain holdin' her glasses down like dem joints was going to fly off, yeah, that lady who felt like she was doing you a favor by being there. Almost every day during my summers, if my butt wasn't in a summer camp, I was at that musty a** library. Good times. The books where you could pick your ending were the BEST!

There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter ... with a pen! and a stamp! 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! Didn't everyone feel special when you a letter from someone?! How special is it to get a freaking email?!

There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store! 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! Man, why do I still have my tapes that I used to tape over and over and over again. It used to be so POed when the DJ would talk at the end or the beginning. Also, I could spend hours in my room listening to old LPs. Great times.

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! I remember getting into trouble prank calling 911. One of the five whoopings I ever got in my lifetime.

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600 and thought it was the isht! With games like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics sucked a**! 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. Okay, I know I'm not 30 yet but does anyone remember the Strawberry Shortcake Atari game. Loved that mess!

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, well that was just too dayum bad! I remember I was too short to see some of the scenes from Purple Rain because of the wack a** seating. Yes, I was 5 years old watching Purple Rain...and what?!

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! We were to poor to have TV Guide. We used the newspapers' TV Guide. I swear I must have seen "Zapped" or "Porky's" a million times on HBO/Cinemax back in the 80's. You would swear that was the only movie they showed.

You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off you’re a** and walk over to the TV to change the channel. And don’t let your a** have insomnia, cause at 1 a.m. guess what --> TV went OFF! You got the Star Spangled Banner then America took its a** to bed! That's why I have to wear glasses right now. I learned at a very young age...sit in front of the TV!

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 rat-bastids! They need to bring back Woody Woodpecker, Chili Willi and Droopy. "You know what...Now you've mad me mad!"

I would wake up at 7 every Saturday morning just so I could get my cartoons in before Momma started making us clean up the house. Pac_Man, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Bugs Bunny, CBS Story Hour, WWF Friends...now those were classics!


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 JiffyPop thing and shake it over the stove
forever like an idiot. My sister and I burned the mess out of some popcorn. Ah...memories!