meg_marsh Posted December 4, 2009 Report Share Posted December 4, 2009 THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!! 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... Barefoot.... 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 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 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! 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 kick our ass! Nowhere was safe! There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If 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 would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and the tape would come undone. Cause - that's how we rolled, dig? 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 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 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! 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 WEEKfor 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! 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted December 4, 2009 Report Share Posted December 4, 2009 LOL :P:P:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CindyT Posted December 4, 2009 Report Share Posted December 4, 2009 Couldn't have said it better. :P:P Did I miss the part about text messaging???? Drives me nuts and seeing those youngsters drive and text...well those feelings I can't discuss outloud. :P:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skrat Posted December 4, 2009 Report Share Posted December 4, 2009 Yes, the text messaging gets me too!!!! Especially when you pass a state patrol when you are in the slow lane and they are in the fast lane doing 50 and you look over as you pass them and they are texting while driving down the road. That one really got under my skin. Should have gotten a car number and turned him in......probably wouldn't have done any good anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted December 4, 2009 Report Share Posted December 4, 2009 Don't forget we didn't have cell phones, either! If we wanted to call someone while we were "out and about" we had to drive around to find a damn pay phone on the street and hope to hell we had a dime to put in the pay phone or else we were outa luck and had to ask a stranger on the street for phone change. And, we only had three, maybe four tv stations to choose from. No Discovery channel, no MTV, no Food Channel, no HBO or Cinemax, no Bravo channel, no CNN 24/7/365 See? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraJ Posted December 4, 2009 Report Share Posted December 4, 2009 There ya go - good one Meg. Text messaging - nope - read today that over 50% of kids have been "sexting". Scary world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted December 4, 2009 Report Share Posted December 4, 2009 Originally posted by LauraJ Text messaging - nope - read today that over 50% of kids have been "sexting". Scary world. Yeah the tabloid news report that Tiger Woods was caught "sexting" his girlfriend and his wifey busted him. I think she got a tiger by the tail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drywatergal Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Oh meg! As we say around here, I think I might have leaked a little pee because of that! That was SO funny. You are a remarkable writer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltlover03 Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 So funny and so right, thanks for the laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercedes Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 And: - we didn't have sewing machines that would cut the thread - had to use scissors - we had to lift the sewing machine foot by hand - it didn't lift automatically - had to cut out patterns with scissors instead of rotary cutters - had to use a foot control to make the sewing machine sew instead of pushing a button - had to actually thread needles through the eye instead of slipping the thread through a slot - had to embroider by hand cause the sewing machines couldn't - had to put in zippers with a foot that just didn't do the job And last but not least: - Had to buy a new sewing machine because the stupid latch on both sides of the case let loose and the sewing machine fell to the ground - instead of having the handle built in so the machine will never drop. I'm sure I missed a bunch but WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER SEWING RELATED! Mercedes - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meg_marsh Posted December 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 me? not the writer - it was an email from a friend who got it from someone else............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IQuiltToo Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 That was just too funny.....I laughed until I cried! Marilyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Farnham Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 I must admit, times have changed. The other night, I was watching an old TV show with my 9 & 10 year old daughters. In the scene was an old "Rotary Telephone". When the Phone Rang in the show and the Actor went to answer it, Both my girls looked at each other and then at me and asked, "What was that? And how did they use that?" Never dawned on me that my girls had never seen a rotary phone and that we only have cell phones these days!! Anyhow, it made me laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathG Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Good one Meg.......Thanks for sharing !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Great one meg!! :cool::cool::cool: - vaccines were a good thing - we had bicycles with only one gear and foot brakes (no motor scooters or bikes) - only the rich had swimming pools - if we got in trouble at school, we got double at home - every girl had to take home economics (can't spell, guess I should get a dictionary) and guys had to take shop - driving to school was a dream, owning your own car was too. Bet we could go on and on!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belquilt Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 You are all great!! Although I feel a bit old, I had to laugh! Its so true though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primitive1 Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 :D:D Too funny, my DH likes to remind our girls that when he was a kid, they had two little B&W tv's that they kept stacked on top of each other. One had the picture and the other had the sound. Had to walk over and change both channels at the same time...our girls had looks of horror on their faces...hey, you just do what you had to... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 I was one of those kids that had to walk up hill in 4 foot of snow to get to the country school house. Man don't miss that at all.:P:P And when we moved into this house which was build in 1969 the original rotary wall phone is still in the basement. Ringer doesn't work anymore, but you can use it to call out and if you hear a ringer from another phone you can answer it. But more funny than that was Siana...who was only 11 when she came to live with us didn't know how to use it, gave both of us a giggle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 I'm with you Bonnie, you had to live over 3 miles or more from the school to get a bus ride. I forgot to mention that not only was a TV remote a dream, but remember the little box that you had to turn the antenna on the roof (or you had to go outside and turn the pole) to get one of the 4 channels available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda G. Craig Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 I remember the first TV my parents bought, a black and white TV in a blond wood cabinet. My mom couldn't get the darn thing to work, so she called the repair man. He arrived and told my mom to plug it in and it would work. How embarrassing! LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagecl Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 If all of this technology was available back then or earlier we would be "spoiled" too. It is just the sign of the times and I don't consider it being "spoiled" just lucky to have all the advantages we didn't. In twenty years from now people will be saying the same thing and technology will be more even advanced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisy2018 Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 At thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, if you forgot to buy the whipping cream for the pie, the stores were CLOSED those days, and you went without... ran out of eggs one year, thank heavens we lived close to a well stocked neighbor... When the wind blew too strong, you saw "snow " on the TV, at 11:30 the TV went OFF. Sewing fabrics came 36" wide... Zippers were metal....Fabric stores carried knits of all kinds, linen, real linings, wool for jackets, fur trims....Spools were wood, most every thing you bought was made in the USA.... People had to plan the day, to be in the right place at the right time, no flying by the seat of your pants... BUT, a very good thing now: In the old days when we left during snow for grandma's house, and it turned really dangerous on the way, we would have been really in danger if something had happened, now with cell phones working so well, perhaps help would be easier to summon....I know I don't worry as much about my children now:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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