this came to me to day and got me gigglin' so hard..... reminded me to be more grateful

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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'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 knowsomething, we had to go to
the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

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 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!

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 Boxes 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" and the graphics sucked ass! 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!

When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating!
All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a
hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15
channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! 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 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
bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up. we had to
use the stove or go build a frigging fire ... imagine that! If we wanted
popcorn, we had to use that stupid JiffyPop thing and shake it over the
stove forever like an idiot.

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!