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THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious
stories about how hard things were when they were growing up;
What with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ... Uphill
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.
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. And it never failed - the book or magazine you needed was
already checked out.
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's 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 was 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 cable television, but back then that was only like 15
channels and there was no on screen 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 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 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 Jiffy Pop 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
1980.
