When I Was A Child...

Another interesting email sent by a friend that will make a few laugh and nod their heads...

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. Things like walking twenty-five miles to school every morning uphill...barefoot...both ways...in the snow. Yadda, yadda, yadda. And, I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way that I was going to lay a bunch of whoie doie like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that I'm older, 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 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 nearest 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!
• There were no MP3' s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ's usually talk over the beginning and screwed 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, 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, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
• You had to use a little book called "TV Guide" that you purchased EVERY WEEK to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your tush 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 brats!
• 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!