The Spoiled Under-30 Crowd

[cowboygwe]

Don't know if this has been posted before. My Mother sent it to me and I found it humorous.

Subject: 30 or older

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.

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 hel_l 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 dam_n 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 dam_n 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 dam_n 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 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! 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 or before!

Regards,

The over 30 Crowd

(Send this to someone you'd like to make smile,

Whether they are under 30 or not.)