Ahhh the memories...
> 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 through year 'round blizzards carrying their younger siblings on
> their backs, to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a
> Straight-A average despite their full-time after-school job at the
> local textile mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help
> keep their family from starving to death.
>
> 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've reached the ripe old age of forty -four, I can't
> help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so
> EFFIN 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--we
> wanted to know something, we had to go to the @#$*& library and look
> it up ourselves.
>

> And there was no email. We had to actually write somebody a
> letter--with a pen. And then you had to walk all the way across the
> street and put it in the EFFIN mailbox and it would take like a week
> to get there.
>
>
>
> And there were no MP3s or Napsters. You wanted to steal music, you had
> to go to the @#$*& record store and shop lift it yourself. Or we had
> to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually
> talk over the beginning and EFF it all up.
>
>
>
> We didn't have fancy SH** like Call Waiting. If you were on the phone
> and somebody else called they got a busy signal. 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 boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug
> dealer, you didn't know... You just had to pick it up and take your
> chances, Mister.
>
>
>
> And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames with
> high-resolution 3-D graphics. We had the Atari 2600. With games like
> "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked a ** . Your
> guy was a little square. You 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 faster
> until you died. Just like LIFE.
>
>
>
> When you went to the movie theatre there no such thing as stadium
> seating. All the seats were the same height. A tall guy sat in front
> of you, you were screwed.
>
>
>
> And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20
> channels and there was no onscreen menu. You had to use a little book
> called a TV Guide to find out what was on. And there was no Cartoon
> Network. You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning... ...D'ya
> hear what the EFF I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled
> little turds.
>
>
>
> That's exactly what I'm talking about. You kids today have got it too
> easy. You're spoiled, I swear.
> You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1984.

you old fart....just kidding (i'm older than you)...its like this with every "older" generation....good 'ol technology....best wishes

We didn't even have video games......just pinball!

lots of firecrackers!!! i miss that!!!

Try to imagine what the kids of today will be telling the kids of tomorrow . . .

Yeah, I remember when dogs and cats weren't allowed to vote.

I remember when I had to carry around my mobile phone, we never had the luxury of having them implanted in our brains.

I remember when you couldn't choose the colour of your eyes or IQ with some fancy schmancy DNA kit.


I remember when the Stones concerts were a mere 500 dollars per ticket, and you didn't need a mortgage to buy a damn ticket.




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2005-09-27 23:25 by camper88.

I remember black & white TV and two channels. no need for a tv-control!

nice read, Cafaro

reel to reel tapes....dusty memories....ouch!!!