Amos Stevens
New Member
> >>The Way It Use To Be!!
> >>
> >>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've reached my thirties, I can't help
> but
> >>look around and notice
> >>the youth of today. You've got it so damn easy! I
> >>mean, compared to my
> >>childhood, you live in a darned Utopia! And I hate
>
> >>to say it but you kids
> >>today you don't even 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 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!
> >>Try sticking an LP Album
> >>under your jacket, buddy!
> >>
> >>Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off
> the
> >>radio and the DJ'd
> >>usually talk over the beginning and screw it all
> >>up!
> >>
> >>You want to hear about hardship? We didn't have
> >>fancy stuff 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!
>
> >>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
> >>screwed!
> >>
> >>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 hell I'm
> saying!?!
>
> >>We had to wait ALL
> >>WEEK, you spoiled little *******s!
> >>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
> >>the 80's!
> >>
> >>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've reached my thirties, I can't help
> but
> >>look around and notice
> >>the youth of today. You've got it so damn easy! I
> >>mean, compared to my
> >>childhood, you live in a darned Utopia! And I hate
>
> >>to say it but you kids
> >>today you don't even 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 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!
> >>Try sticking an LP Album
> >>under your jacket, buddy!
> >>
> >>Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off
> the
> >>radio and the DJ'd
> >>usually talk over the beginning and screw it all
> >>up!
> >>
> >>You want to hear about hardship? We didn't have
> >>fancy stuff 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!
>
> >>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
> >>screwed!
> >>
> >>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 hell I'm
> saying!?!
>
> >>We had to wait ALL
> >>WEEK, you spoiled little *******s!
> >>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
> >>the 80's!
