Trent
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Here's an email I just got from a friend in Canada. A little americanised, but still quite 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 blizzards. 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'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
.... witha 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 messed 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 hadno 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 Play station video games with
high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games
like Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked !
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 onscreen 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 a$$ 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 b*st*rds!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat somethin g 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!
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 blizzards. 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'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
.... witha 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 messed 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 hadno 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 Play station video games with
high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games
like Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked !
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 onscreen 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 a$$ 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 b*st*rds!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat somethin g 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!
