the spoiled under 30 crowd

I don't feel old until i start reminiscing about the past and how things have changed. My dear sweet cousin sent this to me--and i so can relate--if you are 30 or older you are bound to get a chuckle....

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD !!!

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 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 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 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!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters!

You wanted to Steal music,

you had to hitchhike to the 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 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 Iimagination!!

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

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!

And we didn't have microwaves,

(OK i did--we were a test kitchen but we were the exception)

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!

Regards,The over 30 Crowd