Saw this in an email, kinda funny

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!

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 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 damn 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 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 screw it all up!

And talk of about hardships? You couldn't just download porn! You had to steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options!

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, 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 ass! 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!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen 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 brats!

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!!!!!

I was smoking my brains out back then. I know the geeks were playing rubiks cube while I was playing Petra's rounds.
Porn on video is the same as porn on dvd only with less hair. And a dvd is easier to stop and doesn't pop out with mad noises when mom gets home.

I had an atari XL where I MADE my own games. Oh yeah and my first computer was a ZX81 with 1K memory. I bought a 16K extention which you had to hook up from behind and when you hit the table all went dead.
Oh and ...you had to tape your program to save it. After 3 loads the tape would make noises of it's own and program was waisted for my grandkids.

I am still in love with miss. Milano from who's the boss. My hair was 10 centimeters long in my neck and I was wearing a bomberjack ( hooligan ).

I had the time of my life, omg theme song from dirty dancing, and met my wife in the late 80's and the best thing ever happened. Holland won the european championships which is the only thing we have accomplished in the last 60 years.

I love the 80's

To add another decade onto this. Those of us in our 40's can remember having black and white tv's, PONG (the original home video game that came before Atari), and blistering whippings from belts, hot wheel tracks and switches (thin branches from like a willow) that were not considered child abuse but normal child rearing. You tended to behave a bit better when you knew THAT would be coming if you didn't!

I also remember that when it was the weekend or summer vacation, you did not spend it indoors if it wasn't pouring rain outside. Mom's always ushered their kids outside first thing in the morning after breakfast and told them to go play. You went anywhere you wanted! We never showed back up unless it was meal time. I musta put a bazillion miles on my bikes during those years. Construction site nearby? Hell, that's a playground! And there was no specializing in ONE sport, you played them ALL. Nowadays, you got kids who only play soccer or little leauge or dance or whatnot. Pansies.

Also, gas crunch that was so bad you could only get gas if your license plate ended in an odd or even # depending on what day it was. And a 55 MPH speed limit that was TOTALLY enforced on the Interstates.

Space travel was a novelty still. I still remember watching the rocket launches in the 60's. That was really considered amazing back then.

Television WITHOUT any type of cursing. I laughed the other night when watching the Daily show and the dude called him a pussy. You NEVER heard anything like that on TV back then. I mean it was a HUGE deal when the women on that show Dynasty first called each other a bitch and it didn't get censored out. Even the word "fart" was not considered appropriate for tv. Compare that to todays tv shows.