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If you are 30-40 years old with Kids, Enjoy
Posted On 04/16/2008 21:57:32 by BHShaman

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 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 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 screwed it all up!

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! 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 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 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!
Oh yea, and a seatbelt was Mom throwing her arm across your chest every time she hit the brakes.


Regards,
The over 30 Crowd


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05/20/2008 11:14:19
lol....yeah I remember pong...that was to dam funny!


04/17/2008 15:21:06

Damndeer wrote:

These thoughts could not be more true. It's a shame it's going to take the kids until they are 30 something before it dawns on them. And I have you beat if you started with asteroids, I had to play "PONG".

 

Asteroids was one that it seemed people would remember.
I certainly played pong.  I'm near the other side of 30's, so I got to live Pong and PET (calculator loaded from a cassette tape.. hehe)

What
will be fun is in another 30 years when our kids start talking to our
grandkids about how they actually had to COOK food, or that cars drove
on ROADS, or that people really actually used to get ChickenPox.

Will be good times, good times.

 



04/17/2008 14:39:45

These thoughts could not be more true.  It's a  shame it's going to take the kids until they are 30 something before it dawns on them.  And I have you beat if you started with asteroids, I had to play "PONG".



04/17/2008 11:34:55
my wife and i are 34 we know all about what your sayin .. i meen i was the remote control for years !!!! we just had our 1st child 10 weeks ago and i am a stay at home dad ... he may get spoiled some , but he will know the southern manners !!!! yes sir , no sir , yes  mam, no mam, and if he wants to have nice things he will earn them through good grades and chores or not own them at all!!!


04/17/2008 08:35:39
Amen & Amen.. Although I'm pretty dang good at Astroids.. my kids won't play me because I never die on it! haha... Thanks !


04/17/2008 06:50:51
WAIT UNTIL YOU HIT HTE 50+ MARK, SONNY!


04/17/2008 06:12:08
+1 brother!!


04/17/2008 00:23:02
Amen.  I too swore I wouldn't sound like my old man but when I see how easy these kids have it, I can't help myself.  I dub this the blog of the day.  Great job.



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