Saturday, July 11, 2009

Kids Today

A friend sent me this, and it made me laugh. I couldn't find any information about the author. If you know, would you pass it on so I can properly attribute it?

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 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 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 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!!

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!

There were no MP3' s 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 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'. 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!

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 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 ... 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!

4 comments:

  1. "Back in 1980"....... I feel so old now!

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  2. LOL! Can you believe what technology has done in just twenty years? What must my husband's mother think at 96? She saw the first airplanes and the beginning of cars on a big scale, telephones, etc.

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  3. There is so much truth in this posting, and it's actually 30 years, not 20. The students I teach today have never NOT known cell phones, Internet, microwave ovens, drive-thru, and digital everything. Only 25 years ago the Walkman was a big deal. Now, no one knows how to use one, or even why we would.

    So, when we try to use teaching methods from 20 years ago, when I started teaching, they don't work. We adults need to keep up with the pace too.

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  4. I guess it would be simply too much to mention that the TV in our house was B/W untill I was in HS, and that we didn't have A/C unitll the next year after that.....in the south....hot....hot...really hot....
    Smiles.

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