Well my work week as been TOUGH so nothing but a quick post and on and off lurking today...
Someone sent me this and I can totally relate HAHA after all I am over 40
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. 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 I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my 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 an 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 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 butts! Nowhere was safe!
There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and mess 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, and they would have to try back later! 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 butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!!!
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! 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
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that's the truth!
well put!

whats a card catalogue?
just kidding... i am 33 so i can still relate! i agree. I dont have any kids but as i watch my neices/nephews and cousins grow up ... its insane.
we would meet every xmas and i would always be the best auntie and buy the kids the biggest and best toys.. this year, it was all about video games, mp3 players, itunes, and gift cards!!! what 6 year old knows how to ask to for a gift card!??
the other day when i had to pick up one from jr.high, i looked around at all the other girls and i swear that everyone is half naked or their jeans are sooo tight that its sick!
the other sad part about is, that even with all this - kids are still bored.. so bored that they are doing stupid things that they see on youtube, like that kid with the pitbulls, or that girl who choked herself to death, or that 12 year old who got her naked picture sent out to the whole school by an angry boyfriend! WTF??? i just dont get it.
It's Dolly & me!
BE MY VALENTINE
LOL! Funny! n/m
BE MY VALENTINE
sooooooo true
thanks for sharing
SO TRUE!
I'll never forget the look on my daughter's face when she had to do her first real reaserach type paper and looked at the set of encyclopedias.

Her: What am I supposed to do with THAT You don't expect me to READ all that do you?!?
Me: laughing hysterically Why yes dear, you do have to read it all! AND take NOTES on it!
they are so used to instant gratification!
Cathy
when she first came home
Hahaha!
Yes and if you wanted to breed purebred Bulldogs...you had to DRIVE TO GET TO THE STUD DOG and leave your bitch there! Imagine that! you only bred to dogs you read about or heard about over the phone AND could get to! sheesh!
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Andrea, Ruby, Lola and Jigger
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isnt this the truth?
and as I remind my kids, no google! had to use the library and encyclopedias!!
much bully love~Christine, Dupree, Marley and Savannah
Yup, I relate
Of course, I turned 40 last summer, so I would.
ARRGHH DOUBLE POST
Bulldogs...its an obsession!
"PollyAnna's Words of Wisdom" the book!
Click here for a link!
http://www.lakeside-studio-petportraits-andmore.com