THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

Calvin · THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

I get these chain emails all the time and never fwd them. But I thought this one was pretty cool. Brought back a lot of memories.

If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

If you're under 30 READ IT and APPRECIATE what you have!!!!

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; they had to walk Twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... In the snow... BOTH ways... Yadda, yadda, yadda, whatever....

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way I was going to lay 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 utopian dream world!

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!! No Google, no Yahoo!, we actually had to turn pages in real books and read through it all until you found the part you wanted to know about!!

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 whip our rear ends! And when we got home we got another beating because their parents called ours to tell us they beat us and why! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitch-hike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio (sometimes AM radio no less) and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and mess it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car (8 track, not cassette, who could afford that high technology). We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when it finished and the tape would come undone and get stuck inside the player! 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, 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 Pong (it was as exciting as the name implies... Not!), or 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 could not channel surf! You had to get up 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 brats!

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

Jigslinger

It's ALL true.

BrownMarlin

Thats funny

and true

DandRCrush

You're right Calvin, one of the funniest internet things I've ever seen!

And yessirree it IS all true....hell I can remember my father getting my mother her very first dishwasher...you had to roll it to the kitchen sink and hook up the hoses to the faucet and when it was done you had to unhook it and roll it back to the corner in the kitchen...LOL

seanspots

...and we did not have/afford Van Staals,just sayin'..

Everything said is sooo trooo.We getting old fellas.

MS PAT · OLDIES BUT GOODIES

ANYBODY OUT THERE BUT ME REMEMBER WHEN WE DIDN'T HAVE FM RADIO, CERTAINLY NOT TV, NO DISHWASHERS, NO GAS OR ELECTRIC LAWN MOWERS, NO AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSIONS, I COULD GO ON AND ON. THE BEST PART IS WE LEARN TO APPRECIATE WHAT WE HAVE TODAY. THE ONLY THING GOOD ABOUT THE GOOD OLD DAYS, WAS ALL THE CRAP WE THOUGHT WE COULD GET AWAY WITH, BUT INSTEAD GOT AN OLD FASHIONED MEMORY LESSION AT THE END OF A BELT OR SWITCH. IT IS AMAZING HOW FAST WE ADAPTED TO GOOD OLD FASHIONED DICIPLINE. WE NEED MORE TODAY

Tiderider

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 whip our rear ends! And when we got home we got another beating because their parents called ours to tell us they beat us and why! Nowhere was safe!

That one particularly hit home. My Mom, and I love her. was a spare the rod (substitute anything within reach, fishing rod, hot wheels track, belt, switch, spatula etc. etc.) spoil the child parent.

plotalot

Tiderider

You're telling ME!!!

Jigslinger

We used to get paddled in school too. I had a buddy who took five pops after every class for a day for a total of 30. They couldn't hit you but five times at a whack so they improvised on him! I think he had skipped a class for about a half semester and they finally figured it out.
They need to bring some of that back IMO.

BigKenny

Every kid In my neiborhood was scared of my mom.

She could hit you running with anything, Can of corn, Shoe, Glass, Whatever. Would break 3 brooms a week over our heads. My dad never hit us. Mom whooped that As$! She was maybe 6'2 tall! Big girl. For any of you youngsters that thinks thats harsh or severe, It should have happened to you to. I respect my elders & appreciate punishment because I deserved it. Didnt get it enough. I Love My Mom & dad regardless of the whippins I got. Public whippins should be allowed again. I'd say, Get him 1 time for me! Little bas###d!

robertyb · Re: OLDIES BUT GOODIES

kyjake

Born in 1939,first six years of school were in a one room schoolhouse.Don't believe I missed anything from not having TV or the internet,school year was shorter back then which gave more time for fishing with feed sack twine for line,a stick pin bent into a hook,a 6' pole cut from the bank of the creek and the bottom of a toothpaste tube pressed into a sinker as they used lead for a seal on the bottom of the tube.Finally got real hooks and line about 1948.Lived within 500' of the creek which was the recreation spot for all the summer with swimming and fishing most all year long.My mother would clean anything we caught over 6" long so we had plenty of fresh fish.Don't think I missed a thing but the younger crowd is missing this.Now I have more fishing equipment than I can ever use,some old Penn's that are 50+ years old and still working and being used but don't average getting to fish on the average of one time a week all year long.
Jake

BrownMarlin

Dow

I always hated when my mom would grab the switch off the window blinds, those things flex ungodly.

FEESH

Wow!!!I can't resist.Hot wheels track?Whoa!!!what a flash back.
My father was in SE Asia for a good amount of time so my mom had three boys to deal with.God bless her for everything cuz it was no picnic.How about these:
-cable TV-oops I mean, the small town slumlords that tried to prevent it from coming in becuase HBO aired R-rated movies
-big wheels...yeah you were too big for one and your little brother had one but you improvised and "re-cycled" one from the trash and put trike wheels on it- a green machine was close second
-"junking for bike parts and cutting off the the front forks to make your bike a chopper...with a banana seat and hippie bar
- a broomstick was made of gold and the world was your oyster when you had one-wiffle ball anyone??
Yeah there's much, much, more but why bore everybody and you know what? I try to be one of those parents

who tries not to spoil mine ...but...if I can I will.

MS PAT · OLD FASHIONED DICIPLINE

ASK ANY ONE OF MY THREE CHILDREN (ALL IN MID TO LATE 40'S NOW) IF THEY ARE SCARED OF A FLY SWATTER AND IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH OF A PROBLEM SOLVER, THERE WAS A CANISTER ON THE FRIDGE WITH A BELT INSIDE LABELED "WHIP ASS". HEAVEN HELP THE ONE I HAD TO OPEN A CAN OF WHIP ASS ON.

IF I WHIPPED ONE OF MINE, WHEN THEIR DADDY GOT HOME HE WHIPPED THEN TOO

THEY DIDN'T SASS, THEY DIDN'T TALK BACK, AND PRETTY SOON IN REGISTERED THAT WHAT MAMA SAID THE FIRST TIME SHE MENT - DON'T ASK NO MORE

IT DIDN'T HURT THEM AND WOULDN'T HURT NOW TO BRING BACK THIS KIND OF DISCIPLINE...

MikePe · Re: OLDIES BUT GOODIES

jim mills

I'm so old I remember not having an indoor bathroom. Never was much fun in the dead of winter to get up in the middle of the night, walk out of the house and 50 yards to the toilet.

Jim

WD

outlawsr <0)))>{

I remeber my mom loading us kids on the tractor she had to hand crank the thing to get it started it was an old ford 8n with a bad battery we drove it 3 miles to town to get chicken feed gas in the tractor and a candy bar and soda for under 3 dollars that was the good ole days I remeber when i went to high school I rode my bicycle about 15 miles to school so i could goto work after school to save up for a car it was a 1960 old super 88 4 door it was a dream posi rear end big block auto it had a sticker in the glove box warning this car is equiped with a posi differential could cause loss of control lol .I remember gettin my ass beat one time from my dad for cuttin the neighbors pecan tree down with a machetti I went to school the next day I couldnt sit down it hurt so bad they called my dad in and asked him if he beat my ass he said yep they told him he shouldnt do that he sadi boy drop ytour britches and he beat my as agin right in front of them just because lol that was the good old days now

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