Never say never :P

[Elgee]

If you are 36, or older, you might 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 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 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 damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!

 

1) 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!!

 

2) 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!

 

3) 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! Nowhere was safe!

 

4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

 

5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would 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 then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?

 

6) 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!

 

7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

 

8) 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 parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

 

9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'.. Your screen 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!

 

10) 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!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!

 

11) 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 WEEKfor cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!

 

12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!

 

 

 

13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!

 

 

 

 

And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!

 

 

 

 

See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before!

 

Regards,

The Over 40 Crowd

 

ps: I've left the large font in, since ... yah ... the first thing to go is the eyesight

[Mystica]

*chuckles and ticks off*

 

did that, and that and oh! that too! OMG that! the fights over changing the channel. If you weren't the oldest in the house, you watched whatever THEY choose. Period! And if they choose something they thought you couldn't see, you didn't watch at all. Oh! The post office! What a treat that was!! smirking at the other people when buying stamps..... YES! I actually hàve a penpal! Eat that! Oh oh oh! No cell phones! Surprise dinners, EVERY EVENING!! Ah yes... the 'smack & learn' with the old 'count it for what you did that we don't know about' if you complained that you didn't DO anything! Got a punishment from the teacher at school? No frigging 'parent counsilors to discuss How To Motivate Your Child In Seven Sessions' bullcrap. You came home, started to write that damned physic's formula 20 times and then the game began: Grandma sees you writing, asks what it's for and goes 'add 20 for me'. Pa comes in and can't be outdone by Grandma, + 20 more. Auntie won't be left behind: + 20 more. The teacher KNEW why they only gave 20! By the time your family was done, you were writing the damn thing till your fingers fell off! Your side of the story? Tell it in 10 years when you're grown up and have kids of your own! Now write!

[Elgee]

*Snorts with laughter* ... exactly!

 

Throwing a tantrum because you're a hormonal teenager and NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ME!! ? ... Yah ... one smack on the bottom and a warning to not talk back to my mom or I wouldn't be sitting for a WEEK cured me of THAT one. Because you knew they were serious!

[Phelix]

Is it bad that I'm 24 and most of these apply to me too? I mean, really...

 

My parents either did something horribly right or horribly wrong! (I can't tell which...)

[Elgee]

Phelix! *tacklesnugglebites*

 

Something right, I'd say

[Phelix]

Phelix! *tacklesnugglebites*

 

Something right, I'd say

 

 

*is tackledsnuggledbitten* Heehee!

 

Thanks dear!

[Marta Sedai]

Mmmmmm...

 

 

*doesn't play video games*

Oh, I am (almost) 22 and when i was little.... There weren't most of things kids have now... I actually played all day, ever day... Outside!!!! Oh, the days... I used to have so much fun... And my knees were dirty all the time... And I made mud pies... I think i even ate some of those I made...

 

My kids will do that too! They WILL NOT watch more than 1hour of catoons a day... And they will hate me at first, but when they grow up, they will be thankful!

[The_Fnorrll_Reborn]

No texting? :O

 

 

:O

 

:O

 

But...but...but...but...

 

No texting?!! :O

[Elgee]

Nope.

 

And you had to milk your own cows. For real, not on Facebook.

[Phelix]

Nope.

 

And you had to milk your own cows. For real, not on Facebook.

 

 

Wait... I've been to South Africa, and I asked about Melkeries. They've been around longer than 40 years!

[Jeannaisais]

haha is it weird that I can see a lot of these between myself and my younger brother? he's only ten years younger than me and I'm only twenty-one, but i remember not having a cell phone, and not having video games and not having internet. My brother, at eleven years old, as his own cell phone for crying out loud! Granted, my parents gave it to him because i'm away in Spain and my younger sister (at 16) is away at college so he's home by himself a lot and just in case he forgets his house keys or something, they wanted to be sure he could get a hold of someone. But, all he ever does is sit around and watch tv and play video games and if you tell him to go play outside he starts crying! When I was a bit younger than him, TV and computer time were privileged!

[Elgee]

*Eyes Phelix*. I grew up on a farm. We milked BY HAND!

 

We should check with Ty - they probably have those fancy milking machines on their farm now. *sniffs*

[Phelix]

*Eyes Phelix*. I grew up on a farm. We milked BY HAND!

 

We should check with Ty - they probably have those fancy milking machines on their farm now. *sniffs*

 

 

That does make all the difference.

 

I have to laugh sometimes, at my mom... her dad's family is all from the American South, and when she was a girl they still grew tobacco, corn, and raised hunting dogs. Now, they've sold off most of their land, and what they didn't sell off they've developed into apartments, condos, and suburbs.

 

They also made moonshine, but they still do that.

[Elgee]

At least the important traditions are still preserved then, Phoelix *angel face*

 

Jeannaisais, that made me laugh so hard! Just goes to show that the pace at which things develop is increasing exponentially.

 

My ancestors right up until my grandmother lived in an era with no electricity, cars, phones, planes ... no technology at all!

She died before there was anything like cell phones or internet or even TV (in our country).

 

My mother went from NO phones, to phones with a crank that went through an exchange, to those old fashioned ones where you ... never mind let me show you:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We're not even going to try and get her to use a cell phone - she doesn't understand the concept. And don't get me started on the internet - she's never had a computer in her life.

[The_Fnorrll_Reborn]

But but but...how did you sext then??!

 

I DONT UNDERSTAND!!!!!

[Elgee]

We didn't *said primly*

[Phelix]

Elgee, that first phone is beautiful... I want!

 

TFR- They didn't sext... they actually got together and had in-person, with real live other people, sex! :shock:

[Elgee]

But only if you were married to each other because ... no contraceptives, yo!

[Phelix]

But only if you were married to each other because ... no contraceptives, yo!

 

 

You made me snort Cherry Coke out my nose. That was unkind.

 

I forgives you though.

[Elgee]

Well my work for the day is done then *grins evilly*

[Phelix]

Well, if Cherry Coke cascading out my nose is enough to accomplish your to-do list, then I am glad to be of service, Ma'am. *bows*

[Elgee]

I enjoy life's simple little pleasure.

[Daruya]

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So, who can tell me what the above represents?

[Rasheta Ardashir]

Elgee, I don't understand cell phones either. Which is why my sister only lets me touch hers if i'm answering it. LOL I just have to hit one button then.

 

I'm 27 and all that list applied to me. We did get to watch a half hour of T.V. usually it was Reading Rainbow, but after the half hour we were sent outside to play. Plus my mom homeschooled us so we were forever getting in the car and traveling. OMG not that! We had to actually look out the car windows and see what was going on outside. Crazy crazy logic that. LOL

 

*snorts laughing at Elgs and Phelix*

[Elgee]

Hands up all those who had black and white TVs. And btw, the first time we got TVs in our country was when i was about ... 10? I know I was still in primary school. And it was black and white :P