30 and Over~

[random3434]

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! No where was safe!

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!

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 kids !

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








*from an email

 

[Xenophon]

Its true.

I can remmeber things like when a movie like say, Star wars came out, the only way to get still pictures of it was to buy a magazine, no net and picture searches.

You wanted porn, you had to go to the magazine stand or the back of the bookstore.

If you dared call someone long distance it cost you a fortune.

It really was very different.

 

[Anguille]

In spite of all the new technology and better treatment of kids, I kind of feel sorry for them. I think parents have more expectations of them these days and some of those expectations are unrealistic. Such as being the parent's best friend, being a status symbol for the parent. It seems like that's more commonplace nowadays than I remember it was growing up. Parents were less nurturing in the past but they were also less controlling. Maybe it's a trade off or maybe that's just my perception.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

Awesome post ECHO....if I wasn't up till 1 in the morning last nite drunk and repping posts I'd give you some rep for it.

You hit the nail on the head as far as I go, same thing happens to me now that im into my 30's a bit.

I've hired some young kids and they make me go insane with their lack of motivation or work ethic. It usually takes 3 weeks for them to be late or try to call in sick....BAM YOUR FIRED I dont tolerate that calling in sick crap.

 

[Big Black Dog]

I agree. The world is a lot different than it was when I was a kid coming up. Born in 1951 I have seen lots of changes in my life time. Seen some truly amazing things and some things I wish I had never seen. Our lives were much different than the world of today. As kids, we would never behave like the kids of today behave. For example, if you were going to go uptown for some reason you would get all gussied up to look really good because you never knew who you might run into while in town. Today, kids look pretty sad with the way they dress and with their pants hanging half-way off their asses. Go to the mall and have a seat on any bench and just watch and listen to what comes by. The kids of today are rude, crude, very impolite and simply don't have the same values of the kids back in our day did. My parents would have absolutely killed me if I acted like the kids you see at the mall these days. The kids of today are spoiled with things we never dreamed of when I was a kid. In a lot of ways, I do think kids of today have it much easier than we did but I don't see that same "happiness" on their faces as I remember seeing on the kids faces when I was coming up. The world has changed and maybe not so much for the better.

 

[xsited1]

Stamps were 10 cents in 1974. Just how old are you EZ?

 

[Valerie]

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! No where was safe!

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!

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 kids !

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








*from an email

That's great EZ! So true.



It always amazes me when I see teenagers/young adults acting as if the world OWES them a living...Like wow man, I can't believe I can't just show up whenever I feel like it and do a half assed job and still get paid! It rained all last week and today it's sunny out, so I just HAVE to go to the beach and take a sick day! Life's too short, my parents work too much and never enjoy life! Oh, and can I borrow the car and do you have any cash for gas?

Kids these days, I tellya!

As my parents use to say, money doesn't grow on trees ya know!


I made sure my son understood the world his father and I grew up in as well as the world his grandparents grew up in, so he would have perspective, respect, and appreciation for how very fortunate he truly is.


In MY day we kicked a can around in the street and we LIKED it!

 

[strollingbones]

it really is too bad..kids have traded childhood for cyber space...they accept the concept of animal/machine and man combos...they do not see it as alien...they have little relationship with nature...you forgot some things....mom's spit would cure most things.....kids got hurt....i can remember being put out of the house and told not to come back till lunch...my mother never concerned herself with my entertainment....or went out of her way to entertain me...we had to get up to change the channel but there were only 3 channels...so it was no biggie...my father didnt care how i felt about anything...his roof ..his rules...never wasted my time telling him my side of the agruement...cause he didnt give a damn if a pancake had two sides...it was his pancake.

 

[random3434]

Stamps were 10 cents in 1974. Just how old are you EZ?

Older than Amanda, younger than Gunny!

I guess people missed the *from an email part!


My friend Teresa sent me that,she's 34 years old.

 

[random3434]

I just give mini echo a string and 2 tin cans when she asks for a phone.

She gets bored, I tell her to draw on the back of the paper grocery bag, then make it into a shirt if she needs new school clothes.


30 years from now our kids will be bitching about how it was back in the "good ole' days!"

 

[Valerie]

Saturday Night Live - Grumpy Old Man - Video - NBC.com

 

[Luissa]

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! No where was safe!

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!

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 kids !

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








*from an email

Do I count if I was born in 1980 and I played atari.
I won't be 30 for one year and two months though???
I am lucky I survived, helmets didn't get big until I was older and we never worn them and we had a wood playground intead of a plastic one with a tire swing that you had to keep your head in on because you might wack your head on the side.
We did have internet when I entered high school but it was like watching paint drive.

 

[xsited1]

Stamps were 10 cents in 1974. Just how old are you EZ?

Older than Amanda, younger than Gunny!

I guess people missed the *from an email part!


My friend Teresa sent me that,she's 34 years old.

I'm just messing with you. I can certainly relate!

 

[Agnapostate]

I still think it's the soccer moms' fault for wanting to wrap the world in plastic.

 

[elvis]

Stamps were 10 cents in 1974. Just how old are you EZ?

Older than Amanda, younger than Gunny!

I guess people missed the *from an email part!


My friend Teresa sent me that,she's 34 years old.

call waiting was invented in the 70's I think.

 

[editec]

I am often surprised that anyone my age survived.

Seatbelts? Unheard of.

Drunk driving? SOP for most people after work.

Helmets and bicycles? Are you kidding?

Measels, mumps, chickenpox? All just a normal part of childhood. Mothers used to encourage us to play with sick kids so we'd get these disases over with when we were young.

TV?

There were three channels (if you could get them all) and kids programming lasted or about two hours after school and for four hours on Saturday mornings.

I started playing pee-wee league football and they handed me (seriously!) a leather helmet, no face guard, of course, cause those were dangerous.

Beatings? EZ has it exactly right.

Get out of line and the neighbors would kick our asses and then when we got home, father would kick our asses for embarrassing him because our neighbor had to kick our asses, first.

Adults were gods and they were ALWAYS right, folks.

Cigarettes and second hand smoke? We grew up in a gray haze since about 3/4 of all adults smoked. My doctor smoked when he was treating me for heaven's sakes.

Yeah, it's a different world, alright.

Of course, school shootings weren't high on our list of things to worry about.

Being vaporized in a nuclear war, however, was the background radiation we had to live through.

We weren't that worried, however, because we knew that hiding under our desks would save us from the blast.

Yeah that's right, we were trained to hide under our desks if the alarms sounded.

Happy Daze.

 

[elvis]

Kids were not NEARLY as overweight then as they are now. kids would run all over hell. Now, it seems their definition of exercise is playing on the fucking oui, or however you spell it.

 

[del]

the shoes i'm wearing are over 30. don't have much to add to what ed said, that's the way it was pretty much. i remember a car seat that just hooked over the front seatback and had a toy steering wheel, which i guess would have at least cracked the windshield before i went through it at 65 mph.

if someone got the measles in the neighborhood, all the kids would be paraded through like pilgrims to fatima in reverse, doctors made *housecalls* and yeah, we lived in fear of being obliterated. good times.

 

[Luissa]

Stamps were 10 cents in 1974. Just how old are you EZ?

Older than Amanda, younger than Gunny!

I guess people missed the *from an email part!


My friend Teresa sent me that,she's 34 years old.

call waiting was invented in the 70's I think.

we that in my family until the late 80's I think but we had HBO and a Beta machine.

 

[Luissa]

I am often surprised that anyone my age survived.

Seatbelts? Unheard of.

Drunk driving? SOP for most people after work.

Helmets and bicycles? Are you kidding?

Measels, mumps, chickenpox? All just a normal part of childhood. Mothers used to encourage us to play with sick kids so we'd get these disases over with when we were young.

TV?

There were three channels (if you could get them all) and kids programming lasted or about two hours after school and for four hours on Saturday mornings.

I started playing pee-wee league football and they handed me (seriously!) a leather helmet, no face guard, of course, cause those were dangerous.

Beatings? EZ has it exactly right.

Get out of line and the neighbors would kick our asses and then when we got home, father would kick our asses for embarrassing him because our neighbor had to kick our asses, first.

Adults were gods and they were ALWAYS right, folks.

Cigarettes and second hand smoke? We grew up in a gray haze since about 3/4 of all adults smoked. My doctor smoked when he was treating me for heaven's sakes.

Yeah, it's a different world, alright.

Of course, school shootings weren't high on our list of things to worry about.

Being vaporized in a nuclear war, however, was the background radiation we had to live through.

We weren't that worried, however, because we knew that hiding under our desks would save us from the blast.

Yeah that's right, we were trained to hide under our desks if the alarms sounded.

Happy Daze.

I remember riding in my dad's chevette hatch back in the hatch back because there was no room or sitting on the floor infront of my mom in the front.