If you are 30 or older you might enjoy this and hopefully Raw Wisdom still has it's sense of humour....anyway here goes..........

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
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 catalogue!!


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'd
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! 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 some of us who are a little bit older didn't even have TV!)


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