A Letter to the Youth of Today

A friend of mine sent this to me in an e-mail. I laughed out loud!! I'm not sure who wrote it but its hilarious!! I changed some of the language because it was bad- hopefully I caught it all! :) It's long but worth the read!! :)


Dear Young People,

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
I was going to lay a bunch of crud 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
Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today 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 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! 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 mess it all up!
We didn't have fancy crud 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,
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, that was it.
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 had to get up 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.
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we had
to use the stove or go build a 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 guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!

Regards,
The Older Crowd