Sepra
01-07-2003, 09:43 PM
it's long but be patient.....it gets funny
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 through year 'round blizards carrying their younger siblings on their backs to
their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a straight-A average
despite their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death!
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've reached the ripe old age of twenty-six, 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
goddamned 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 -- we wanted to know something, we had to go to the goddamned
library and look it up ourselves!
And there was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter -- with a pen! --and 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! And there were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to
steal music, you had to go to the goddamned record store and shoplift it
yourself! Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the
DJ'd usually talk over the begining and **** it all up! You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11!
Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy **** like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and
somebody else called they got a busy signal! And we didn't have fancy
Caller ID Boxes either! When the the phone rang, you had no idea who it was it could be your boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like
"Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy was a little square! You 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 faster until you died!
Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium eating!
All the seats were the same height! A tall guy sat in front of you, you
were screwed!
And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book
called a TV Guide to find out what was on! And there
was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday
morning... ...D'ya hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you
spoiled little bastards!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled, I swear to God! You guys wouldn't lasted five minutes back
in 1984!
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 through year 'round blizards carrying their younger siblings on their backs to
their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a straight-A average
despite their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death!
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've reached the ripe old age of twenty-six, 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
goddamned 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 -- we wanted to know something, we had to go to the goddamned
library and look it up ourselves!
And there was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter -- with a pen! --and 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! And there were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to
steal music, you had to go to the goddamned record store and shoplift it
yourself! Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the
DJ'd usually talk over the begining and **** it all up! You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11!
Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy **** like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and
somebody else called they got a busy signal! And we didn't have fancy
Caller ID Boxes either! When the the phone rang, you had no idea who it was it could be your boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like
"Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy was a little square! You 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 faster until you died!
Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium eating!
All the seats were the same height! A tall guy sat in front of you, you
were screwed!
And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book
called a TV Guide to find out what was on! And there
was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday
morning... ...D'ya hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you
spoiled little bastards!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled, I swear to God! You guys wouldn't lasted five minutes back
in 1984!