Joe Willie On The Shrimpbox: The Spoiled Under - 30 Crowd

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

If you are 30 or older you will 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 kids about how hard I had
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 toda y.
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 butts! 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 w as! It could be your
school, your mom, you R 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 li ttle 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 butt 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 brats.
And if 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