Andi
07-05-2004, 05:01 PM
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 I was
> > going to lay that on kids about how hard I had it
> > and how easy they've got it!
> >
> > But....
> >
> > Now that I've reached the ripe old age of fourty, 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 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 library and look it
> > up ourselves!
> >
> > And there was no email! We had to actually write
> > somebody a letter, with a pen!
> > And 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!
> >
> > And there were no MP3s or Napsters! If you wanted to
> > steal music, you had to go
> > to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or, we
> > 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!
> >
> > You want to hear about hardship?
> >
> > We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting! If you
> > were on the phone and
> > somebody else called, they got a busy signal!
> >
> > 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 boss, your Mom,
> > a collections agent, you
> > didn't know!!!
> >
> > You just had to pick it up and take your chances,
> > mister!
> >
> > And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation
> > videogames 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 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 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
> > sat in front of you, you
> > watched his hairstyle!
> >
> > And sure, we had cable television, but back then
> > that was only like 20 channels
> > and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a
> > little book called a TV Guide
> > to find out what was on!
> >
> > And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get
> > cartoons on Saturday
> > morning... D'ya hear what I'm saying!?!
> >
> > We had to wait ALL WEEK!
> >
> > That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids
> > today have got it too easy.
> > You're spoiled!
> >
> > You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1981!
> > 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 I was
> > going to lay that on kids about how hard I had it
> > and how easy they've got it!
> >
> > But....
> >
> > Now that I've reached the ripe old age of fourty, 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 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 library and look it
> > up ourselves!
> >
> > And there was no email! We had to actually write
> > somebody a letter, with a pen!
> > And 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!
> >
> > And there were no MP3s or Napsters! If you wanted to
> > steal music, you had to go
> > to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or, we
> > 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!
> >
> > You want to hear about hardship?
> >
> > We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting! If you
> > were on the phone and
> > somebody else called, they got a busy signal!
> >
> > 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 boss, your Mom,
> > a collections agent, you
> > didn't know!!!
> >
> > You just had to pick it up and take your chances,
> > mister!
> >
> > And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation
> > videogames 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 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 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
> > sat in front of you, you
> > watched his hairstyle!
> >
> > And sure, we had cable television, but back then
> > that was only like 20 channels
> > and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a
> > little book called a TV Guide
> > to find out what was on!
> >
> > And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get
> > cartoons on Saturday
> > morning... D'ya hear what I'm saying!?!
> >
> > We had to wait ALL WEEK!
> >
> > That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids
> > today have got it too easy.
> > You're spoiled!
> >
> > You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1981!