The Good Ol Days

[Moose]

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" 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 *** 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-*******s!



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 JiffyPop 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 !





Regards,

The over 30 Crowd

 

[CSnyder]

Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[GMike]

Yep... . Whats a microwave?



Regards,

The over 60 crowd.

 

[daytripper63]

You need to post this on "myspace.com" or some bullsite like that



The over 40 crowd

 

[klenger]

You still missed my generation by 25 years. Cable TV? How about 2 or 3 off-the-air channels. In some cases, one TV station may get feeds from two networks. Color TV? Yea, right. Rock and roll music was on AM radio, and there was only one station that played it. I remember when I started college in Big Rapids MI, the phone company was encouraging residents to start dialing all 7 numbers for local calls because dialing only the last 4 digits was being phased out.

 

[donnier]

In the begining, yes we had three tv stations.

But to get a really clear picture, you had to turn the rabbit ears a certain way for each station. And if you were lucky, you got a picture without "snow" on it.

You turned the tv on and went to get a snack while the tubes warmed up so you could watch it. And pray one of the tubes didnt deceide to quit working.

At the end of the broadcast day, the stations signed off with the National Anthem.



IMHO, the kids of today wouldnt last back then.

And they have the nerve to complain how "hard" it is for them.



Regards from someone who grew up in the early fiftys.

 

[JFlagg]

Hah! My Dad's first house as a child in the late 50's didn't even have indoor plumbing, and it had a dirt floor! And that was in St. Louis county! There is a Schnucks or Dierburg's there now#@$%!

 

[Skydiver]

Ah yea,the good ol days.

-If you wanted light you had to pull a string.

-"pushing off" a car was normal. A new battery and you were the talk of the town

-I can remember my Grandfather asking my Dad far a cigarette and then breaking the filter off. 1965

-A riding mower was a luxury item

-School buses had 6- cylinders a stick

-I can still remember riding in my uncles ford, front center, and the under dash air/cond freezing my knees till they hurt.

-Cushman scooters

-I really did and still do enjoy listening to old people talk

-I remember one night in 1966 crying because I missed Gilligans Island. Had to wait a week for it to come back on

-In 1973 we got our 1st Air/cond window unit and Mom wouldn't turn it on unless she was cooking or we had guest over

 

[Boomer II]

My dad had remote control on his TV back in the fifties... . ME! Black and White and three channels. No central air or heat in the house, party line phone and our number was FR-0646. He was an accountant and had a huge mechanical adding machine, little electronic calculators didn't exist and slide rules were the norm for the math nerds at school.

 

[SHobbs]

Another thing was that fast food was not everywhere and it was a treat to get Mc D's or something along those lines. The talk these days is obesity and dieting, gee wonder why. Mom always cooked b-fast, lunch and dinner, you ate what was on the table or you didn't eat at all and us kids were outside sun up to sundown. I have to agree these kids have it made and yes they would not have made it back in the day.



Hittin 39 this year, bring on old age I am ready. :-laf

 

[donnier]

Being born in the latter 40 s, and survived the sixtys, Id like to live long enough to hear what the kids of today are going to complain to their kids about that they had to do or go without.