skinski
19-06-2007, 02:30 PM
A letter to todays kids from the over 40 crowd
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 ..
blah blah blah.
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 forty, 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. ( Do you even know what the dewey decimal system is??)
There was no e-mail. 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.
There were no MP3s 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.
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, 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" and the graphics sucked . 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!
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, you were just screwed.
Sure, we had television, but back then that was only like 3 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.
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 when changing chanels , you had to go outside and turn the antena to get the picture clear again ! 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-bastards!
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.
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 1970. :eek:
Regards,
The over 40 Crowd
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 ..
blah blah blah.
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 forty, 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. ( Do you even know what the dewey decimal system is??)
There was no e-mail. 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.
There were no MP3s 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.
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, 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" and the graphics sucked . 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!
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, you were just screwed.
Sure, we had television, but back then that was only like 3 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.
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 when changing chanels , you had to go outside and turn the antena to get the picture clear again ! 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-bastards!
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.
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 1970. :eek:
Regards,
The over 40 Crowd