DJONES
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posted March 14, 2003 01:49 PM
You damned kids these dayz
Subject: You damned kids these dayz
When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears
with their tediousdiatribes 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 had 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 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 -- when we wanted to know
something, we had to go to the goddamned 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 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 damn 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 f@#* 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!
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! If a tall guy
    
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