The Over 30 Club

[Shadow_Thomas]

Since I am a member of, 'The 25 Miles To School Each Day', generation. (Up hill both ways.) I got a real laugh out of this one.

Growing Older (For the 30+ crowd)

IF you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

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!

And talk about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options!

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 was 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 five minutes back in 1980!

Regards,

-The 30 Something crowd!

[JDoors]

... You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980! ...

Jeez, you young'ins from the 80's, always complaining!

(That was so surprising when I got to the punchline and it was the friggin' 80's! Oh Lordy, I'm gettin' so old ... )

[Makai]

... You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980! ...

Jeez, you young'ins from the 80's, always complaining!

(That was so surprising when I got to the punchline and it was the friggin' 80's! Oh Lordy, I'm gettin' so old ... )

Amen brother.

80's geesh.

[bearskin]

1941. I didn't see a tv til I was 9 years old. movies were a dime and popcorn was a nickel. we walked 4 miles to get there. same distance to the school. meals were cooked on a wood burning stove. drew water from a well. telephones were party line. ring 3 long-1 short. did homework by a kerosene lamp. I still have pictures of the covered wagon we had. no locks on the door...just a button and a hook. everybody had a coon dog and a shotgun. homemade beer and "cooked" corn whiskey. radio was battery powered with an antenna wire strung across the yard. no need to say more.

[rv56]

.....ya being that I'm 49 I've been there done that...

Good one Shadow....

[bozodog]

ya being that I'm 49 I've been there done that

Add a decade to that..... I'm with bearskin.

[Brian_Holiday]

1941. I didn't see a tv til I was 9 years old. movies were a dime and popcorn was a nickel. we walked 4 miles to get there. same distance to the school. meals were cooked on a wood burning stove. drew water from a well. telephones were party line. ring 3 long-1 short. did homework by a kerosene lamp. I still have pictures of the covered wagon we had. no locks on the door...just a button and a hook. everybody had a coon dog and a shotgun. homemade beer and "cooked" corn whiskey. radio was battery powered with an antenna wire strung across the yard. no need to say more.

Wow, this sounds like the 80's in rural Kentucky. The only difference is, we had fox hounds...

Man that sucked!

BH

[robroy]

And I'm right behind you, I vaguely remember the sixties, as a kid in the 50's we had 2 channels of black and white tv at my grandparents house. They were considered well off hehe

[JDoors]

... no need to say more.

I grew up in Chicago so we had all the comforts, but vistin' Granma's house meant no indoor plumbing. Hand pump water from the well, heat it on the 'far,' fill a washtub for bathing, use the outhouse for ... well I don't have to 'splain that. We always visited Granma's so it didn't seem unusual to me, but when I wrote an essay in High School about my summers on the farm my fellow city dweller students got a helluva kick out of it.

I'd have to say I'm a child of the sixties: I remember when "I wanna hold your hand" came out, I thought it was the dumbest song I'd heard. Tells ya what I know.

[Chappy]

Oh Lord, thats FUNNY!! (and ironic)

Yup, we had it rough back in 56 I tell ya....60's were a blurr, 70's a drunken stupor most times, 80's...did they even exist?? I thought someone just dreamed them up to fill the void between classic rock and hip-hop.

[JDoors]

... 60's were a blurr, 70's a drunken stupor most times, 80's...did they even exist?? ...

I like the idea of summarizing the decades!

50's: Too young to remember.

60's: Youthfull exuberance, then wasting my teens with, well, it was the sixties after all.

70's: Getting established (job, apartment, etc.)

80's: 60 hour workweeks, partying hard to make up for the drudgery, buying a home.

90's: Hiding out in a "safe" job 'cause I never want to work 60 hours a week ever again.

00's: Trying to figure out how to pay the continually rising costs of living with that damnable safe job.

[JSKY]

Man O man....Ain't these stories the truth. I'll be 48 next month. And the wife and I were wondering where the last 20 years went. Seems like they just sped by and we never had time to catch any of them.

[tman70]

1941. I didn't see a tv til I was 9 years old. movies were a dime and popcorn was a nickel. we walked 4 miles to get there. same distance to the school. meals were cooked on a wood burning stove. drew water from a well. telephones were party line. ring 3 long-1 short. did homework by a kerosene lamp. I still have pictures of the covered wagon we had. no locks on the door...just a button and a hook. everybody had a coon dog and a shotgun. homemade beer and "cooked" corn whiskey. radio was battery powered with an antenna wire strung across the yard. no need to say more.

I remember bread came in waxed paper (if store bought) and milk had the cream on top and you had to shake the glass bottle to mix it. You split your own wood for the the stove. You sold popbottles back to the stores for a penny apiece to get spending money.

As for the movies-----a dime to enter, a nickle for pop (medium size now), a nickle for popcorn(medium size now), a nickle for a candy bar( large size now)---and for all that you got two movies, selective shorts, newsreel, previews of coming attractions and cartoons and it all changed every two days.

The bathroom was outside, central heat was the coal stove in the middle of the room and air conditioning was opening the windows.

Ah---the good old days.

[blim]

Ah, trying to explain the concept of a milkman to my kids was interesting...they were just amazed! But we DID have full service gas stations

From someone who grew up watching Capt Kangaroo

Liz

[Makai]

Ah, trying to explain the concept of a milkman to my kids was interesting...they were just amazed! But we DID have full service gas stations

From someone who grew up watching Capt Kangaroo

Liz

Heh. Mighty Manfred, Tom Terrific and Crabby Appleton.