Kid's........not even a clue !!

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 @#*%
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, 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!
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 on screen 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 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
rat-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!

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd

And no meth or crackheads to deal with

Holy crap - I gotta be old then.
If I was calling someone on the phone, I had to crank the darn thing then tell Mabel, the operator who I wanted to talk to - and it was a 4 to 12 party line. You had to count rings to know if it was for you.

Television(if you or a friend had one) - the test pattern came on at 5:00Pm just before Howdy Doody. You watched John Cameron Swayze and the Camel New, just before Milton Berle

If you wanted to go somewhere, you did it by Shank's Mare, took a bus or waited for dad to get home from work at 5:00

You actually went outside and played with your friends. There are dozens of kids in my neighborhood - but the only time I see them is at the school bus stop.

Kids used to walk to school - with 2 miles or out in the country being the cut off for a bus.

You actually went to Saturday movie matinées - expensive @ 7cents for under age 10 and a dime for over.

Sex - not a chance. You got MARRIED and had 2.4 kids

Vacations - dad loaded up the car and you all went off to see grandma for 2 weeks in the summer.

Computers - well there was an IBM Eniac(sp) that filled a room or keypunch systems for accounting.

You actually celebrated holidays, not these BS "Hallmark Holidays" which have become synonymous with greed.

Yep - I AM an OF. And yes, and IMHO, life was a lot less complicated:HMMM: :CRY:

Whats a "Computer?"

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Originally Posted by 35WINDOW

Whats a "Computer?"

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Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer

Craig - I KNOW you were born AFTER 1946, when the ENIAC was first shown to the world:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

And don't forget..........If you wanted $$$$$$$ you worked for it!!

Got my first job (in a hardware store) working after school and Saturday when I was thirteen.

Made twenty five cents an hour. First week pay after taxes...$4.64.

That was the end of my allowance, I earned every dime I've spent from that day til now.

Mowed lawns, pumped gas, worked as a soda jerk (no smarta-- remarks please) and just about everything else to support my car "habit".

Those were the good old days.

Kids today have evrything handed to them and act like their getting screwed!!:eek:

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Originally Posted by Geezer2

And don't forget..........If you wanted $$$$$$$ you worked for it!!

Got my first job (in a hardware store) working after school and Saturday when I was thirteen.

Made twenty five cents an hour. First week pay after taxes...$4.64.

That was the end of my allowance, I earned every dime I've spent from that day til now.

Mowed lawns, pumped gas, worked as a soda jerk (no smarta-- remarks please) and just about everything else to support my car "habit".

Those were the good old days.

Kids today have evrything handed to them and act like their getting screwed!!:eek:

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I had a kid that came by the shop and wanted a job.
I would guess he was about 16.
The kid had about three ear rings in one ear and two ear rings in the other along with stud in his nose.
I asked him what he knew about cars,engines,hot-rodding,he said not a thing.
The funny thing is he wanted $10 an hour to clean the shop for me.
The first job I had in a shop pushing a broom was $2.50 an hour cash.

we were on the party line as well and no such things as electronic games , unless you count a cattle prod:D

I'm 33, and I find myself sounding like an oldster more and more everyday. Just last week, I was bitchin' about the high price of gas and cigarettes to my friend's 15 year old son.
"When I was your age, cigarettes were a buck a pack, and gas was 79 cents a gallon!" I said.
Now, I didn't walk uphill both ways to school while carrying my little sister on my back or anything, but I did have a choice to walk four blocks to school or four blocks to the bus stop. Nowadays, the bus stops right in front of the house. What's up with that? And they wonder why kids are overweight.
Another thing that bothers me is that kids just lounge around the house all the time. They'll tell me, "there's nothing to do around here," and when I suggest that they go ride their bike or something, they look at me as if to say - 'why in the world would I do that?'
And here I am now making a list of things that annoy me about youngsters...Man, I feel old.

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Originally Posted by flh4speed

we were on the party line as well and no such things as electronic games , unless you count a cattle prod:D

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We were too poor for a cattle prod.........this was my entertainment!!:whacked:

my mom claims that would be the light socket syndrom , you know damn well its gonna bite you! but you do it again anyway.. yeah we were all slow learners:D or just not to bright!

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Originally Posted by flh4speed

my mom claims that would be the light socket syndrom , you know damn well its gonna bite you! but you do it again anyway.. yeah we were all slow learners:D or just not to bright!

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My favorite............was eating the minty flavored white paste. Altho......some say that I might have eaten a little too much.:whacked:

I sold a lot of Dividend Bonded gas at 19.9/gallon, and I remember TV test patterns and no real show until early evening. Also, listening to various programs on the big Philco console radio before we had a TV. I remember when dirt was invented . . .

Television, what's that? You turned on the radio and listened to The Shadow, Amos and Andy, The Lone Ranger, Mr District Attorney, Lum and Abner, Gunsmoke, I Remember Mama, and many more that I can't remember.

To me the scariest part of the whole "Nintendo Generation" thing is that by the 2012 elections, they'll be old enough to run for public office!!!! Can't you hear the campaign slogans, "I promise a laptop be GIVEN to eveyone on their 4th birthday and updated for FREE semi-annully".

No wonder this world is getting so messed up, we have a whole generation who (with few exceptions) even have a clue what reality is, let alone how to deal with it.... The majority seem to be stuck in their "virtual world" of computers, video games, and Ipods....

Good example, our little town used to have to have tryouts for both the Legion Baseball and VFW teener leage teams...you had to be a better then average player to make one of the travelling teams. Those who didn't make the teams played on 1 of 4 other teams in town, playing two games a week and practicing twice a week. This year, they're not sure they'll have enough kids coming out for baseball to even have both of the travelling teams, let alone the inter-city league play....

I'm not saying baseball is the only things kids should do, just using it as an example....

The city of Sioux Falls (pop. 100,000 plus) is considering DROPPING MANDATORY physical education classes after the Freshman year.....

Worst part is, the kids are not the only one's to blame..... We as adults and parents let it all happen.....