BACK IN THE DAY!!!!
At 2006-02-15 on 11:49 p.m.
First off much needed prayers are needed for Austin http://www.prayforaustin.com his family about lost him the other night and I just feel so sorry for him and his family....
My cousin Terri sent me this email the other day and its so true-I remember the days sitting by the radio with tape recorder ready to be hit when the "song" came on-whatever the hit song was at the time and I ruled at atari!! :)
>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!
>
>***TEXTILE MILL ... you can tell a Yankee wrote this! LOL
>
>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 of 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 ass!
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 ass 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 bastards!
>
>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!