A Stunning Senior Moment

[Taem]

My mom sent me this in the email about a month ago. I figured everyone has already read lists like this, so I didn't bother posting it, but since you started it, I suppose it's fitting; as you might say, I got a chuckle out of it:

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!



If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

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

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way

I was going to lay a bunch of bull 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 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 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 library and look it up
ourselves, in the card catalogue!!


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 ass! No where was safe!

There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to
hitchhike to the 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!


There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our
favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come
undone 'cause that's how we rolled; dig?


We didn't have fancy stuff 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 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 Play Station video games 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
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!

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 rear and walk over to the TV to change the channel!

There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday
Morning.. Do you hear what I'm sa ying!? We had to wait ALL WEEK for
cartoons.

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had
to use the stove ... Imagine that!


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 1980
or before!

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd