Posted by Elorah Dannan at h0040d02a0bab.ne.client2.attbi.com on March 21, 2003 at 00:29:50:
In Reply to: Nostalgia anyone? posted by Beatrice_Rapaccinni on March 21, 2003 at 00:26:33:
: 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've reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine,
: >I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
: >You've got it so fuckin' easy!
: >
: >I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in freakin
: >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 damn 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 fuckin' 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 damn 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 beginning and
: >fuck 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! It was
: >either that or jackoff to the lingerie section of the JC
: >Penney catalog! Those were your options!
: >
: >We didn't have fancy shit 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 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! Your guy was a little square! We 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 seating! 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 the
: >fuck 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 last five minutes back in 1984!