When I Was Your Age!

Found this on the net but I made changes to be more fitting to me,
plus it was written in Gen lazy spelling.

When I was a kid, older adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious stories about how hard life was when they were growing up.

“I had to walk twenty-five miles to school every morning . . . uphill BOTH ways and through blizzards.”

Right before summer vacation, they walked through 120 degree heat carrying a younger sibling on their backs to a one-room schoolhouse, where they maintained a straight-A average, despite their full- time, after-school job where they worked for 35 cents an hour to help keep their family from starving to death and that was in addition to household chores.

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! Yet now that I've reached the ripe old age of my thirties, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You’ve got it so easy! Compared to my childhood, you live in a freaking Utopia! I hate to say it but kids today have no idea how good they have it.

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When I was a kid we didn’t have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the 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 after taking an hour to write the letter and spell checking it using something called a book titled 'Dictionary', you had to walk all the way to the end of your drive to place it in the mailbox and lift the metal flag announcing you have mail to be picked up. Of course, if you didn't have any stamps you had to go all the way to the store, buy a stamp, than cross the street and put it in a mailbox and wait for it to be picked up, processed and than delivered. Depending on where it was going that took like, up to a week to get there!

There were no MP3’s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to bus it, walk it or beg your mother or sibling for a ride to the record store and shoplift it yourself! If you had it really bad, you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ usually talk over the beginning and screwed it all up!

We didn’t have fancy pancy stuff like Caller ID Boxes! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, the guy you didn't want to talk to because he wasn't cool enough or your fast food supervisor wondering where they {bleeep} you were - you just didn’t know!

You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn’t have any fancy Sony Play Station video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600 with games like “Space Invaders” “Pac Man” and “Asteroids,” the graphics sucked, but we loved it!

There were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! You could never win, the game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like life!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no on-screen menu and the remote control was a sucky looking hunk of plastic 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 brats!

This is 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 the 1980's