***DISCLAIMER***  I got this from a Halloween forum I frequent. I did not write this myself!

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 in
hell I was going to lay a bunch of stuff 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 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 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 damn 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 @#*% 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 stuff 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 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…..

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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