My siister sent this to me in an email today & there is some truth to it!
This is for...
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 waysYadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way under heaven I was going to lay a bunch of junk 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 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 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 stupid 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 give us a whipping! Nowhere was safe!
There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the dumb record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and mess 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 stuff 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 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'. 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 little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were out of luck when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off the couch and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!!!
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 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!
I'm 28, and can vaguely remember some of those things.
When I first read the last line, I thought is said, 1890. I was like, "count me out!" LOL
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we had to pay for the internet per minute. Going over your plan could land you with a bill in the triple digits. Same thing with cell phones, no unlimited calling plans.
The internet used to download over a modem that squealed and squawked and woke everyone in the house who happened to be sleeping.
It downloaded so slowly, you could do your nails and fix supper while waiting for one page to load.
Cell phones were the size of a brick. Very few people owned one.
I used to say - 'Surely, if we can send people to the moon, someone can invent a gadget that will tell me who is calling before I pick up the phone!'
on the phone thing, it was worse for me! We had Party lines! there were about 10 families on the same line. if I wanted to make a call, and Mr. Cole down the road was gossiping with Ms. Annie Mae (for hours on end) I couldnt make ANY phone calls!
Anybody remember party lines?
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on the phone thing, it was worse for me! We had Party lines! there were about 10 families on the same line. if I wanted to make a call, and Mr. Cole down the road was gossiping with Ms. Annie Mae (for hours on end) I couldnt make ANY phone calls!
Anybody remember party lines?
Yes, I could never figure out why people didn't spend the extra money for their own line.
My first computer was the Commodore 64! No internet or info storage of any kind, unless you bought the cassette tape deck add-on! I was high-tech back in the day!
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As a middle school teacher, since the mid-90's ... I would say this applies to many but not all ...
What is very troubling to me today in 2010 ... having students that came up just during the explosion of the internet age ... and now in the 21st century ...
is the blurring between reality and fiction -
and the cause may not be the violent or fantastical movies ... or the video games ...
I think a reality TV epidmemic is affecting many of them.
This younger generation has been bombarded with "reality" entertainment on YouTube, MTV and everywhere else ... and often can't distinguish that some of this is staged, hyped or simply anomalies ... The balloon family stunt is just one example of the madness.
Their lives are on parade on MySpace and Facebook ... making some of them think they are stars in their own shows ... seeking to upstage the theatrics of their peers.
I am seeing this more and more in how they are engaging social events and even how they interact with adults.
You got some of them posting their works of art, via their cell phones, to the net ... within seconds ... all made possible by this instant digital age ... and not being carefully monitored by responsible adults.
The speed in which it all is happening might be too quick for a young mind to filter or decipher without proper guidance.
I don't know if it's me ... as I approach 40 ... but for the first time in a long time I am worried about the next generation.
This was funny, but you forgot the real killers-there was no such thing as IM or text messaging! If you wanted to talk to your friends, you actually had to call them. And to do that you needed to either have their number memorized or look it up in the awful thing called a phone book. Which means you had to know their real name and possibly the name of their parents!
Phones had cords, and plugged into the wall. You couldn't start talking and then decide to get a snack-you'd have to get off the phone before going to another room of the house.
There was no such thing as voice mail. We had this handy little machine at home called an answering machine. When someone called and we weren't home to answer the phone (plugged into the wall, couldn't take it with you!) then people would leave messages on it. When we got home, we would replay these and determine who to call back and who not to. If little brother got the messages and you missed THE call from that special someone... well, whether or not you got your call was in his hands.
Computers had less memory than their notebook has of RAM.
DOS was the program of choice for most school work. And it was presented on a screen backlit with a Halloween orange color.
To save your work on a computer like this in the 80s, you needed a 5.25" disk that was extremely sensitive to being erased, and even in the early 90s, the 3.5" disks often lost data. There wasn't enough room in the computer memory to save documents to the hard drive.
When you printed your work, if you were lucky enough to have a computer, you had to spend 10 minutes waiting for it to print, and then you had to take time to tear the sheets off the printer, separate them at the perferations, and take the perforated edges (about 1/2 inch, with holes every inch or so) off of each page. When you ripped your paper trying to get the perforations off, you had to start over.
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