Getting older...

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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 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 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!

There were no MP3's or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ' d usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
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!
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 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!

When you went to the movie theater there was no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no on screen menu and no remote control! 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 *kitten* and walk over to the TV to change the channel and 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-*kitten*!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire.
imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.

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!

1. You can still get down with the best of them........it's the getting back up afterward that proves to be a challenge
2. You've been told that fashions recycle every 20 years and you realize that the fashions of your youth have come and gone around twice now
3. The kids up the road are sent out after a bout of bad weather 'to check up on the elderly neighbors'...........and your house is one of their first stops :noway:
4. You run across a kid you used to babysit and they introduce you to their grandchild.
5. They give you the senior citizen's discount without even asking.
6. AARP is pursuing you with more fervor than a political candidate after a vote
7. You have to build an additional medicine cabinet to hold all the prescriptions the doctor keeps plying you with
8. It takes you all night to do what you used to do all night
9. Uhmmm.......I'm sure there was something else but dang if remember 'em right now :laugh:

Pulling an 'all nighter' means one of the kids is sick!!

No doubt! :laugh:

Foreplay's when he does the dishes.

Ooo baby. Dishes!

I realized how old I am at my daughter's Birthday BBQ this past Saturday. We were sitting in a circle in the backyard after we ate. About a dozen people. My wife and I were the only two people that weren't constantly looking down at a cell phone while we were talking. People can't seem to put those things away. Half the time I am having a conversation with the top of someone's head.

Older than the Playmate centerfold of the month.
My body wakes up before my knees do.

It was bad enough when I realized I was older than pretty much every professional athlete...but now I realize I am older than the parents of many pro athletes.

My 12 year old daughter buying clothes like I wore in the 80s and not believing me that I ever wore such items.

Have to work much harder to keep everything in place
The half Century phrase is now a reality.
Having two Grandchildren!

The fear that grey hair and wrinkles are much closer!

You know you're getting older when you remember when they announced that there would be no smoking on the airplane (or movie theater) and everybody clapped.

And when telephones had cords, rotary dial, and party lines.

Oh, and this...

Ill be 54 next week and for some reason keep thinking im gonna be 45. Is that dementia or dreaming. When i was 8 or 9 my best friend got the first color tv on the block. We didnt have air conditioning at home or school and i live in florida till i was 12. In high school there was a senior smoking area. I was vo-tech and took cosmetology and we didnt get blowdryers till 1977. We had two in the class and we all had to share. Sats in the summer was yourself and a couple of girlfriends laying out suntanning listening to a transistor radio.You didnt know who was gonna be at a party till you got there. The drive thru at the liquor store where you could get a set-up, plastic cup of ice with stirrer stick, your miniature of choice and a can of coke.Just a few dont want to bore the youngsters.