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 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 @#*% it all up!
>
>And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to
>steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy
>of "Hustler" a t the 7-11! Those were your options!
>
>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, 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 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
>
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