OT: Your're over 35 if....
If you are 35 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...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 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!
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-*******s!
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!
Regards,
The over 35 Crowd
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 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!
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-*******s!
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!
Regards,
The over 35 Crowd
Yeah, I'm part of the elite Over 35 crowd, too. Though I didn't have to walk uphill both ways to school barefoot, I did have to get my butt up to change the channel. No microwave ovens. No free music. Tape the songs off the radio. Ugh! And remember the 8 track tapes? yeah, I have one of those in my living room today. Just so my kids appreciate their ipods.
But I will say that I own an Atari - they brought it back about 3 years ago. Those games are the best. My kids and I play the pitfall game and the shooting around the cactus. Space invaders, pong. Sometimes simple is the best.
Happy Holidays to all of us old folk! :)
But I will say that I own an Atari - they brought it back about 3 years ago. Those games are the best. My kids and I play the pitfall game and the shooting around the cactus. Space invaders, pong. Sometimes simple is the best.
Happy Holidays to all of us old folk! :)
Oddly enough I can relate to most of this... seeing as I did half my growing up in another country, lol I still have lots of black and white photos of myself :)
Unfortunately, so true! I so remember waiting for Sat. to watch cartoons. And ya forgot one other thing: NO A/C!!! I look back and wonder why I didn't have heat stroke!!! Sleeping at night all hot and sweaty
~ the only relief from the heat was swimming or the water sprinkler!
Thanks for the memories and making me feel OLD!!
~ the only relief from the heat was swimming or the water sprinkler!Thanks for the memories and making me feel OLD!!
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Oh heck--'35' is puppy hood! You're still a kid!
Those things mentioned in this rant were my reality!
Only my childhood was before Atari--when there was a cartoon called' Powwow the Indian Boy'--loooonnngg ago taken off the air because of political incorrectness. (And this was 'way before there was such a thing called 'political correctness'!)
My reality included a second bathroom-- the outdoor biffy.
Late summer was particularly delightful because my mother would buy bushels of peaches that were individually wrapped in protective green paper.These had second duty as bum wipe! (Which you needed if you ate too many of those peaches...) Same as the Sears-Roebuck catalogue---not only could you dream of the merchandise offered in the 'wish book'--but wiped your butt with those pages. We were ecological before that became the vogue! In the C-O-LD Wisconsin winter, trips to the biffy were only in case of dire emergency. You did not want to risk frostbite from sitting on the frigid wooden seat. HOWEVER--10 people DID share the single in-house bathroom and no one died from it!!
One other exception and I'm goin' elsewhere--we did not have the luxury of a humongous house for several people. We had an average-sized house--and we did not get our own bedrooms. In fact--we did not get our own beds! We had to share!! Which might have been a good thing in the winter because there was no central heat, and sharing body heat probably was the only way NOT to freeze! And in the summer--NOPE--we did not have A/C. We just sweltered in the terrible Wisconsin heat and humidity. If we were lucky, Dad might have felt benevolent enough to take us for quick dip in the nearby lake. That had to be sufficient for cool-off. We also did not have a dishwasher. That was my oldest sister who did not want to have 'barn duty'. EGADS--when I think of the itty-bitty kitchen with few cupboards my mother had to contend with..... HOW SPOILED WE REALLY ARE!!
BUT--yep--this generation does not know the meaning of hard work, or having to do 'without' ---but we made them that way! BUT this generation does not know the freedom in being able to play outside from morning until night, of NOT being afraid of being kidnapped if going alone to the store or wherever. We had more freedoms because it was a more 'carefree' time. (Or maybe our parents were just worn out from trying to keep an eye on 10 kids?? And demanded that we keep an eye on each other??)) CYBER-BULLIES?? Naw--my older brother was the real deal. Computers? Calculators?? Naw--paper and pencil did the job....
YA'LL HAVE A GOOD DAY!!
Those things mentioned in this rant were my reality!
Only my childhood was before Atari--when there was a cartoon called' Powwow the Indian Boy'--loooonnngg ago taken off the air because of political incorrectness. (And this was 'way before there was such a thing called 'political correctness'!)
My reality included a second bathroom-- the outdoor biffy.
Late summer was particularly delightful because my mother would buy bushels of peaches that were individually wrapped in protective green paper.These had second duty as bum wipe! (Which you needed if you ate too many of those peaches...) Same as the Sears-Roebuck catalogue---not only could you dream of the merchandise offered in the 'wish book'--but wiped your butt with those pages. We were ecological before that became the vogue! In the C-O-LD Wisconsin winter, trips to the biffy were only in case of dire emergency. You did not want to risk frostbite from sitting on the frigid wooden seat. HOWEVER--10 people DID share the single in-house bathroom and no one died from it!!
One other exception and I'm goin' elsewhere--we did not have the luxury of a humongous house for several people. We had an average-sized house--and we did not get our own bedrooms. In fact--we did not get our own beds! We had to share!! Which might have been a good thing in the winter because there was no central heat, and sharing body heat probably was the only way NOT to freeze! And in the summer--NOPE--we did not have A/C. We just sweltered in the terrible Wisconsin heat and humidity. If we were lucky, Dad might have felt benevolent enough to take us for quick dip in the nearby lake. That had to be sufficient for cool-off. We also did not have a dishwasher. That was my oldest sister who did not want to have 'barn duty'. EGADS--when I think of the itty-bitty kitchen with few cupboards my mother had to contend with..... HOW SPOILED WE REALLY ARE!!
BUT--yep--this generation does not know the meaning of hard work, or having to do 'without' ---but we made them that way! BUT this generation does not know the freedom in being able to play outside from morning until night, of NOT being afraid of being kidnapped if going alone to the store or wherever. We had more freedoms because it was a more 'carefree' time. (Or maybe our parents were just worn out from trying to keep an eye on 10 kids?? And demanded that we keep an eye on each other??)) CYBER-BULLIES?? Naw--my older brother was the real deal. Computers? Calculators?? Naw--paper and pencil did the job....
YA'LL HAVE A GOOD DAY!!
Amen Brother! I laughed and laughed when I read your post. Being in the slightly older than 35 crowd, I have to really catch myself when I find myself saying, "These kids nowadays!" ARGGGGG! Glad to see a picture of you now! The article that Elena did on you in the Strib was good. Glad to know now that was you!
Michael
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