Kids Today

[RedCountry]

All true. Those little #$#@!!!

 

Subject: Kids Today

 

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 thirty something, I

can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. They've got it so

easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damned Utopia! And I

hate to say it but you kids today 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 damned 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 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 damned 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 screw it all up!

 

We didn't have fancy stuff 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! You 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 I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL

WEEK, you spoiled little brats!!

 

That's exactly what I'm talking about! Those kids today have got it too

easy, They're spoiled, I swear....they wouldn't last five minutes

back in 1984!

[BigRedJake]

That's Airwolf, man.

[huskerdavo]

Good article but societies progress or regress and I would be happy that we progressed in technology. Cause we wouldn't have daily husker reports for one. And simply put I cannot live without the internet so dont take that away from me dammit!

[BigRedJake]

Good article but societies progress or regress and I would be happy that we progressed in technology. Cause we wouldn't have daily husker reports for one. And simply put I cannot live without the internet so dont take that away from me dammit!

It's not an article, it's spoken word by a guy named Ernie Cline. Some of it's really funny. More of his stuff here.