If you are 36, or older, you might think this is hilarious!

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 my 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 forty, 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!

1) 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 library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

2) 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!

3) 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! Nowhere was safe!

4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would 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 then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?

6) 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!

7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MYGOSH !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

8) 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 parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen 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!

10) 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 *** and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!

11) 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 brat!

12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!




13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!



14) And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on.. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!




See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before!

didnt wear a bloody helmet on my push bike..Cars didnt slow to walkin pace driving goin past my school.had air rifle wars with no padding just a pair of aviator sunglasses for safety..Shit mate the list goes on and on..CHEERS BOOF

I was born in a log cabin that I built with my own two hands!!!

The TV tuner had 11 numbers 2-12, no color and we had 5 channels that we recieved through an antenna connected by a wire that had to be replaced every 3 years to keep all 5. Note 2 were from stations 45 miles away and we needed to turn the antenna 15-18 degrees south to get rid of the "snow".... on 12 inch screen that sat on its own table with a top that turned.

#13 was the kicker for me,i remember those days well..!!!

No damn calculators either
Had to use
Program Encoding Numerical Calculation Interpretive Logger & Permanent Analog Preservation Encoding Record
or sometimes know by its engineering acronym
PENCIL & PAPER

remember when TV had no reruns

remember the only crack you worried about was if your jeans were ridin a bit bloody low?CHEERS BOOF

I was the "remote control" in my house! LOL!

You Had TV???????????

How did anyone of us survive to adulthood? Black & White TV, Color was for the adults not us kids. Five whole channels and that was including UHS and VHS. Plus I remember riding to the dump on the tail gate of the station wagon with the trash (try that now). Mosquito control was a fogging truck misting DDT out the back and we would run through the fog. Then AM radio was hot not satellite radio and HD radio. You wanted tunes while riding your bike you strapped it to the bike and hoped to not loss the station as you when down the road.

First job was mowing a yard with a " REEL " mower without a motor. Also tilling the garden with a hoe and rake. progressed to a Big Wheel cultivator without a motor option.

Chaz, LOL!  I about peed myself.  I remember running through that fog too!

Mum used to whoop me with the jug chord when i played up( at least once a bloody day).Kids wouldnt know what a bloody jug chord was these days let alone a bloody good, I think Im gonna die ,shit Mum can swing that bastard chord arse whoopin...CHEERS BOOF

Our boys learned quickly not to complain about being bored. If they did their mom or I found work for them. When our oldest turned 14 we started a lawn care service. For the next 12 years until the youngest graduated they (mom and dad too) did up to 30 home lawns and got the bid for all the school grounds and athletic fields in our little town. They never got any money from mom and dad - all 4 boys are now productive working members of society. A little hard work never hurt anybody.