Life in 1987

[FarrahFlick 0]

Someone forwarded this to me and I thought it was pretty funny. Kinda long, though.

Back in 1987

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 twenty-nine, I can't help but look
around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so fuckin' easy! I
mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a goddamned 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 - we wanted to know
something, we had to go to the 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 fuckin' 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 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 fuck it all up! You want to hear about hardship? You
couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy
you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! It was either that or jackoff to
the lingerie section of the JC Penney catalog! Those were your
options! We didn't have fancy shit 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
ass! 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 fucked! 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
fuck I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little
bastards! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have
got it too easy . You're spoiled, I swear to God! You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1987!

[Sebazz1 2]

[shaking head]Aint it the truth...Aint it the truth...[/shaking head]

Dag nab young wippersnappers...

[kevin922 0]

Of course this was posted already but... :)

nice read