The SPOILED under-40 crowd

[CatsPajamas]

If you are 40 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 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 forty, 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 dang 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 darn 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 darn 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 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! (IF YOUR PARENTS COULD AFFORD THAT!) 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 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!

No, we didn't have cable back then, 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 *ss 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 b*stards!

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 1970!

Regards,
The over 40 Crowd

[CatsPajamas]

Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little b*stards!

That's my favorite line. I'll be giggling about that all day.

[bugsworth]

OMG that was too funny! I was just talking to a friend the other day and I was on my kitchen phone...stuck to the wall.... and I had a flash back of my dad losing it when I was a kid cause I would stretch the phone cord from the kitchen to the basement stairs so I could have some privacy. Good Stuff!!! lol

[CatsPajamas]

AND if you wanted to cheat on a test at school you had to write the answers on the bottom or sides of your tennis shoes! We didn't have the ability to take a picture of the test with our cell phone or to text answers back and forth!

[Ann]

Oh I love this, Cat, you ARE the Cat's Pajamas (you gotta be over 40 to "get" that too)

We made popcorn in a pot, with oil and hoped it didn't burn.

Unless you knew the store well, you paid cash...they didn't want any checks and there was no such thing as a credit card or a debit card because there was no such thing as a computer...you spoiled little b*stards

We played outdoors, in our yards, on the porch or at the park. The worst punishment ever was to be grounded and not allowed out of the house.

And music was actually music...with lyrics like "...who put the ram in the ramadamadingdong?"...okay so maybe music was no better

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Cat.

Hugs

[Jerzy007]

I can remember not having a cell phone and making 10 cent phone calls at the pay phone after my 1 button pager went off...they were so cool (pagers)-25 yr. old. Life was more fun even then, now there are hardly any more kids at the parks because of the dangers and predators lurking around out there. Plus, the police were more leanient back then...mischief nights were soo fun.

[kelsh]

I was twelve years old before we had television...I remember my Dad going up on the roof in a snowstorm to put the antenna up.

I had one friend that had TV before we did.

We used to sit in front of our Bendix Washer watching the clothes and soap. That was entertainment back then.

I did walk to school a mile or rode the city bus on rainy days. Hardly ever had a soda except for the end of school picnic.

Movie theaters were the main entertainment plus lots of school dances, games, & times at the drive-in food places.

School was work and a time to Socialize. A lot of us had part-time jobs during our Senior year. I worked at the Public Children's Library two hours after school and four hours on Saturday...earned $50 a month.

Alcohol and drugs were almost non-existent. Some of the guys played cards and had beer on the weekends...if they could find someone to buy it for them.

So life is much different now. Kids that respect adults are hard to come by today. Last night was a good example with some of the big guy trick or treaters.

Schools had specific dress codes and no one would be allowed to dress like they do today and stay in school. NO BARE SKIN what so ever! We did wear hip-huggers, guys and gals!

Ducktail haircuts...ponytails...skirts & dresses... the list is endless so will stop here.

kelsh

[Impurrfect]

Cats -

This is great!!! I'm 46, so can definitely appreciate it.

My 14-year-old niece is one of those "spoiled rotten little b*stards"

- she's on her 4th cell phone
- has a $300 IPOD she never uses, she saw my MP3 player and HAD to have one (it's easier to program) and got it.
- there are now 3 desktop computers and 2 laptops in the house (one of the laptops is mine) and she is whining because she doesn't have her OWN laptop - dad's laptop is "too slow" and to use the desktop upstairs (won't go down to the basement 'cause she's afraid of the dark), well then she can't lay in her bed and watch TV (with the remote, satellite, DVD and VCR player) or listen to the stereo. I've password protected my laptop so she can't use it.

And my 6-year-old niece & 22-month-old nephew have all of the above (except they have "play" cellphones) and Wii!

I gotta admit, I've gotten spoiled, too. I raise heck when I can't find the remote and have to GET UP to change the channel

Thanks!!

Amy