Weekend Funnies #7
Shakira at YOU ARE NEVER ALONE! hosts a meme called WEEKEND FUNNIES From her blog comes the following:
To get more instructions for this meme you can CLICK HERE. Thanks Shakira for hosting this. Here is my entry for this week. I hope you enjoy!
If you are 30, or older, you might 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 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 lucky, 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!
Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd
Hey, it’s only my opinion.
A Hui Hou
BRAVO! I am still laughing….
We are PURE SURVIVORS!
Hahahaha…KIDS nowadays are so lucky yet so unlucky as they did not have the fun we did.
Remember when we have to walk like for MILES AND DAYS just to get somewhere?
We rather stay all day in school so that we do not have to do chores and not get bored!
Again, nowadays, I just tell my kids,
“YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE NOT TO CALL ME! I have you on SIX CHANNELS!” LOL
and I may just receive a TEXT MESSAGE from someone who SPIED them in a VIDEO ARCADE.LOL
When they were 10, most of the time when they ask me anything , I go..GOOGLE IT..PRACTICE using the INTERNET.
YOU ROCK THE FUNNIES, AGAIN, THOM!
love it! love you!
Have you a great weekend.
hugs
shakira
Indeed that we are…pure survivors. Glad you enjoyed this. I know it’s a bit of a stretch for being funny but I think it is. Kids nowdays
I can go one further…we didn’t HAVE a thing called television when my siblings grew up…and not until I was about 5. So…YOU had it easier than I did. We had to etch our cartoons out on the rock walls in the caves!!!
Loved this Thom. We lost power yesterday most of the day too..so, I couldn’t come visit.
Here are my weekend funnies…you need to scroll down a bit.
LOL…eteched on rocks int he walls of caves. Love it
There are no TV until I was 12,
great reminders of how modern tech shaped us and our young kids…
Indeed it has.
Thanks for stopping by 
Yes grandpa, you are right, lol ! I don’t see the things like that. I always tried to make the best out of everything and had a lot of fun despite my macho father and my stay at home mother ! as a teenager I went a lot to parties, my parents didn’t care, my father told me that he gave me an excellent education (?) and now I should do with it what I wanted. And that’s what I did, far more reasonable as others who had always their parents behind them. I don’t know when I look what the kids do today, I think they have other things, I had other things too compared to my mother ! that’s life !
Interesting tale Grandma.
LOL It indeed is life in the big city so they say. 
Sounds like you had a very exciting childhood 
Hey, I didn’t even know about Atari until I was a teen! Our phone had a party line and we had to wait until the neighbors weren’t using it before we could make a call. TV only has 3 channels and it went off air at midnight, except on Fridays and Saturdays when they went off at 2 a.m. (late movies).
Oh I remember the party lines and when you picked up the phone you had to have an operator dial for you…pfffft Yup I remember getting that big as off air sign as well. My how times have changed
well, at least at the beginning the channel switching was taken care of… we only had one channel and it only aired for a few hours. the TVs were black&white, of course
thanks for the laugh
Oh I can so picture all of that.
Glad you enjoyed 
Microwave??? We didn’t even have a TOASTER oven! And BETA hadn’t even come out yet – much less VHS!
Oh my darlin’ I do remember when those beta max came out. And remember the 8 track tape players? WOOT!!! Those were the days
I might have to send my kids here to see this list.
And y’know? I kind of miss those days. Rotary dials on the phone!
So do I my friend. So do I. I wonder what their reaction would be.
Hahaha! My friend sent this one to me last week, and I was LOL!
It is too funny.
30, pft, he had it easy! LOL
Boy did that bring back memories, about the remotes. I remember our first one — it had a wire leading to the TV and I think all of FOUR buttons on it (channel up, channel down, volume up, volume down) and boy we thought we were NIFTY having one of those. ROFLMAO
LOL…yup wiht a B&W TV LOL