IF you are 35 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

[UnknownWaters]

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 35, 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 @#*% it all up!
And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to steal it fom your brother or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options!
We did'nt have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and smebody else was calling 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 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 was 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 d 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 rat-bastards!

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 JiffyPop 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!

Regards The 35 and older crowd!!!

 

[JimmyR1rider]

I'm not 35 am 33 but close enough- Im not THAT ticked off at the young kids lol but I do have a few things to add to it---1- the Dewey Decimal System-- do they even teach it in school anymore? 2- pitfall on atari 2600 and 3-coleco vision steering wheels for the black screen with white blobs that represented cars you had to avoid.
Our version of the MAC wass when home computers graduated from Commodore 64's to 128's then finally to IBM's being available for the home, lol as well as rotary phones!- the funny thing is they were more reliable- as long as the switch your phone line went through had power(and they always did because of back up generators and battery systems) your phone would still work unlike our wonderful new technology that if your powers out so are you home landlines. Good times and bad.--although lets be honest we too found ways to scrounge rides off mom and dad to get places to meet up with people and were pampered by them also-thats moms and dads and will always be- for as much as we say were grown adults- to them(moms not so much dads) well always be there babies LMAO!!! I cant wait to be 80 telling my grandkids about these contraptions we once had at street corners called pay phones that you dropped quarters in to make phone calls if in a jam.

 

[tomtoothdoc]

lol i can definitely relate to everything you mentioned.
at least you had cable....we couldn't afford cable so it's the set with the rabbit ears....my buddies and i used to rock- paper- scissors to see who ends up holding one of the ear.
almost all the cars were rear wheel drive and i've gotten thru all the snow with bias-ply tires not even the ffing radials.
and remember when you were able to smoke in the theater, bus and hell even the hospital????
video games were at the arcade, the bowling alley, movie theater and you had to spend like $100 to get good at pacman. asteroids money could have sent me to summer camp!!!!
but at least in the good old days, all you had to worry about when you and your girl get busy was to remember to pull out in time.....lol. or hope you're not allergic to the penicillin shot....which seems to cure every possible contagious disease known to man. non of these std's that give you the third eye and kill you stuff.
and best of all....sitting on top of your car with your buddies(without caving in the hood, roof, nor trunk)...cranking out your new auto reverse cassette deck with 4 speakers!!!!! while enjoying a j without anyone calling the cops on you.
good old nostalgia!!!!!

 

[UnknownWaters]

A j ? only 1 ? no cable? where were you livin? every1 had cable unless your in like the 45 and over crowd. oops.

 

[tomtoothdoc]

A j ? only 1 ? no cable? where were you livin? every1 had cable unless your in like the 45 and over crowd. oops.

i grew up in queens...pretty crappy part to boot....lol
yup 4 is a familiar number....lol....age is only numbers....unfortunately those numbers are getting pretty high...lol

 

[BIG L A]

Wow... The first cable channel I remember was WHT and HBO... How about beta max players... And yeah I Was smoking like if it was legal...
But I was talking about TV guides like 2 weeks ago, how they just did away with those things. I don't know about your hood but I remember people walking home with no sneakers, that doesn't happen anymore... But On the other hand remember when public phones received incoming calls... Those were the good days...
Kids now a days do have it easier shhh my first phone was bigger than my face and I thought I was the man, now kids have $300 phones...

 

[masterswimmer]

Baaahhhhh

Sesame Street wasn't even born when I was a kid. I was already in HS when it first came out.

Television wasn't even 24/7. At 3am the American Flag would appear on every station, the National Anthem would play and after it was over there was a 'snow storm' all over the country

As a matter of fact there was only television stations on channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 & 13, THAT's IT!

Aurora Race Cars were the best. It actually took SKILL to drive around the track. If you went too fast around the curves, your car would fly off the track. Nowadays you 'floor it' and the car goes at top speed around the track and never falls off. Takes a real champ to be able to do that

Asteroids? Those were only parts of episodes on Lost in Space. I was already in college when Pong first came out.

Do you remember where YOU were when Kennedy was shot? (John F., not Robert :banghead: ) I do.

I saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.....and it wasn't a re-run.

I saw major league baseball players smoke cigarettes in the dugout.

The book 1984, by George Orwell was a futuristic novel set decades in the future when I read it.

And now for the best one.................

All you guys talking about being 'old' at 35.....I could conceivably be your father.

Damn, that last one really scared the $hit out of me.

Russ

 

[JimmyR1rider]

Dad, can I get 20 bucks? LMFAO!!! Remember the first car phones with the case that had to sit on the middle console , the handset had the curly cord almost like the house phone did and you had to stick the magnetic antenna to the roof? My buddy had one was rich due to a settlement of wrongful death of his dad- HE WAS THE MAN when he got that- had a mustang 5.0 LX hatchback- that funny blue silvery looking color- but was fast and you could call home while doing 140 down Ocean Parkway!(completely straight and sober that is)

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

ahh the good ol' days..P.S. you can still chill out and puff a J like it's legal just depends where and how big your cahonas are. I went to school for audio engineering about 5 years ago and I walked around manhattan smoking out of an apple! I had test in engineering notation right after and somehow got a perfect 100 meanwhile before the apple I had no idea wtf I was doing..hmmm LOL

 

[greggnyce]

I am 34 and I am more ticked off at the older people. Think about it. Did Kids today cause the financial collapse? Did kids today fill the world with pollutants? every generation thinks they are better then the ones before them, but it is not true. We are not even allowed to be critical of certain generations because we only remeber the good things about old generations and the bad things of the new. Get over yourselves old folks you are no better then anyone else, you just drive slow and smell like mothballs, lol

 

[olivier]

I am 37 and I am with you on all thing you listed. Let alone that still a luxury life in compare to me who came from 3rd world country. we considered lucky to have wood in getting the "frigging fire" and forget about the popcorn. there was NON in my youth vocabulary. my grandma gave me a teaspoon of brown sugar after afternoon nap in replace of candy. That alone was a happy moment for me.

Those little rat bastards are not even help to take the garbage outside. so sad for them in seating around all day without any creative activity such as built their own construction car from soup can

Olivier

 

[ZANYMASTER]

You young guys are the next generation even though there is no respect for us older folks anymore.I do miss the younger years however.

 

[daisy]

Funny thing - I guess that even though I grew up in "backwoods" east Pennsylvania, we had it pretty advanced.

We had a microwave oven in 1972. It was big enough to cook a whole large turkey. My mom still has it and still uses it, but it's in the garage now - probably will kill us all in the end.

My dad was a beta tester in his spare time for IBM and other computer companies when I was a kid, so we had our first home computer in the late 70's or early 80's. It was a Commodore 64, and you're right about the games - they got faster till you died - but you missed something - the music was like a 40 second loop - it just played over and over till you quit playing NOT because you died but because you could no longer handle the music!!!

I gotta admit, getting a letter was imminently more exciting than getting an email...

and the thing about the phone - for a while, we (my girlfriends and I) used to answer the phone with silly voices if we thought we were going to get a call from someone we didn't like (a BOY!!!) and didn't want to talk to!!!

I loved my childhood, and in a way, I'm glad my girls have it totally different. I don't know that they have it better or that I had it better - we had it different, and that is the way of the world. Believe it or not, those differences are part of what make us closer.

 

[jackson6745]

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!

LMAO:lol2:

 

[duke62]

hey we had something better then cable back in the day....UHF

 

[knugenx]

hey we had something better then cable back in the day....UHF

Are those the huge satelite dishes the size of a swimming pool? My buddy use to have one!

 

[motortrendz]

ah ..... well im only 28... buuuut.. i didnt have cable growing up we had one of those old tube tvs with the uhf and vhf dials with the adjuster dial around it... u turned it on and had to wait 5 min for the tv to warm up for the color to adj... and when the president was on ur night was screwed!!!!!! i remember when my dad bought our first computer with the big ol floppy disks and we would play olympic games and oregon trail!!!!.. then i remember for my communion i got a nintendo system but had no way to play it on our tv..go figure...remember beepers???? and the stupid messages we would leave by turning it upside down.. like hello..01134..hahah Also i remeber walking thru the woods and found an abandoned car with boxes of porn...JACKPOT!!!! and my kids complain when they cant play the xbox on the big hdtv bc im watching something and they have to play in their room on their regular 29in tv.... man i feel ya..so its not 35 and up id say were right on the cusp..27/28 up.... lol nice thead!!!!

 

[scarf_ace1981]

A j ?

A JOINT :pimp:MARY JANE:smoker: WEED:smokin:. SORRY JUST HAD TO CLARIFY:lol_large.

I'm only 28 and even i agree these youngins have it easy. the only video games i ever had were the original nintendo(remember you had to blow on the games jajaja. not super nintendo or nintendo 64) and the original gameboy(thing was the size of a brick). now a days you go over to some kids house and he has a WII, xbox, PS3, PSP, internet, cable and he's still freaking board.

 

[duke62]

yeah instead of playing video games remember we had to get a bat and a ball and play outside.or get this big metal thing with wheels and go riding around and interact with friends you can see what a drag..or getting on a hill with a wooden thing with and fly down a snowey hill.all the memories we can now share with old friends.what a messed up childhood back then.

 

[motortrendz]

lol... like getting grounded and not being able to go outside to hang out with your friends... man it was rough.. lol not you cant get them off the computer and outside!!!!!wtf haha