A thought for the week.

Sorry about the black background, but that's how it came to me
and I can't figure out how to change it........

Over 30 Crowd

For the Over 30 Crowd

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

(even funnier If you're over 50)

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 25 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 30, 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 MP3s 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 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 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