I'm getting sued!!!!!

Ron Musgraves

Ron Musgraves

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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... 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 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 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 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! 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 ass! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the 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 @#*% 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 then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! 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!

There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOD !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

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 parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen 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 screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!

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 rat-finks!

And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!



And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!



And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were luckily, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!



See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or any time before!
 
I went to rhe library one time to borrow a pen to write down how to operate an atari but that got boring so i went home to watch the 24 hour marathon of family guy and played playstation for a few hours
 
Holy crap Ron my wife and I were just explaineing the same thing to our poor spoiled brats the other day:agree: They dont know how easy they have it these days.Technology has spoiled our kids but as a parent I can only try to push them in the right direction:eek:k:
 
Asteroids, Space Invaders, 1980 or before????
Your not 30 years old Ron!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
lol.....and I wouldn't trade any of that. That is what made us the people we are today !!
Great post I love the part about getting your ass kicked by the neighbor or any other adult, you just didn't disrespect your elders period.
 
I will be 30 in September. I was raised in the old school way. My mom never allowed us to have videos games in the house period. Caused too much fighting she said. Instead, we played outside with the neighborhood kids, rode our horses, or went on camping trips. I have actually also thanked my mom for beating the crap outta me one time when I did something wrong (it was bad!!).

I try to be most of the same way with our kids. We have a Wii but it never gets used. We play at the park as a family, eat dinner as a family, and watch movies as a family. I wouldn't change it for the world. :)
 
I had a stereo where the speakers and the RECORD player folded up into a nice little carrying case.

I remember lying in my basement with one speaker on each side of my head in the dark listening to "Stranglehold"

(ditchw**d - that's all that was available where I came from):cray:
 
Tony Shelton said:
I had a stereo where the speakers and the RECORD player folded up into a nice little carrying case.

I remember lying in my basement with one speaker on each side of my head in the dark listening to "Stranglehold"

(ditchw**d - that's all that was available where I came from):cray:
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I remember playing 45's
 
Nichole said:
I will be 30 in September. I was raised in the old school way. My mom never allowed us to have videos games in the house period. Caused too much fighting she said. Instead, we played outside with the neighborhood kids, rode our horses, or went on camping trips. I have actually also thanked my mom for beating the crap outta me one time when I did something wrong (it was bad!!).

I try to be most of the same way with our kids. We have a Wii but it never gets used. We play at the park as a family, eat dinner as a family, and watch movies as a family. I wouldn't change it for the world. :)
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We used to play at the park alone, now you need securtity Escort
 
We needed a escort where I am from even back in the day, but all we had were these...

Park Fights

Once in a while some fool brought guns and knifes, but thats when we did this...

Catch me if you can.
 
I agree and that's pretty funny but I'll defend my generation a little. I'm 25 so when I was a kid it was different than "now" and different than "then"...ha My generation has had it great up until recently. I have many friends who have run into serious problems trying to find jobs and even just trying to make a future for themselves. It's pretty sad. My girlfriend has a degree in radiography (ct's, mri's, x-rays, etc..) She just graduated and has extremely good work ethic. She worked the entire time she was in school but now can not find a job anywhere. The only thing available is part time work. It's not easy working several part time jobs trying to pay the bills and save for your future... I'm sure many of you have had to go through the same struggles, seems like everyone does at some point but it's become pretty bad for the generation that is entering the job market. We have plenty to worry about and I promise everyone in my generation is not spoiled...haha Then again, everyone has it harder than the next guy. I'm sure men and women who fought through the great depression would read your text and laugh thinking you all had it so easy! It's all relative
 
Tony Shelton said:
I had a stereo where the speakers and the RECORD player folded up into a nice little carrying case.

I remember lying in my basement with one speaker on each side of my head in the dark listening to "Stranglehold"

(ditchw**d - that's all that was available where I came from):cray:
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Did you ever put a penny on the needle to keep it from skipping? I remember doing that. What about eight tracks. Your listening to a great tune and then it starts to fade out in the middle of the song so the thing can change tracks.
 
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