Life was hard in the 80's

heylinder · Posted: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:16:16 Post Subject: Life was hard in the 80's

If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!!

If your 60 or older think about it

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 yada, yada, yada!

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!

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' and the graphics sucked!

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 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 onscreen 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 a$$ 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 bastards!

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! Oh yea, and a seatbelt was Mom throwing her arm across your chest every time she hit the brakes.

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd

Have a good Day

**Modulok** · Posted: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:25:05 Post Subject:

I sense some jealously Wink

knight0334 · Posted: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:43:54 Post Subject:

15 channels?

We had like 3 of them when I was a kid in PA, occasionally 4 if the clouds were right then Ch 2 or 4 would come in from Pittsburgh a 100miles away. Then we had 5 or 6 when we moved to Tampa, FL.

Charlie · Posted: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:38:10 Post Subject:

knight0334 · Posted: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:00:14 Post Subject:

FOX · Posted: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:32:28 Post Subject:

all you old people ever do is complain lol

slugbug · Rated XXX Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 772 Location: Canada

- When I was a kid you could buy a 10lb box of frozen chicken wings for a buck and 10 boxes of Kraft Dinner for 99 cents. $20 of groceries filled the trunk of my Dads '65 Pontiac Laurentian.

- I can remember gas costing .39 cents a gallon.

- We had a black and white console TV and had 4 channels. Two English and 2 French.

- It wasn't uncommon in the Winter to have snow storms with 3 feet or more at once.

- Our Winter Boots leaked so we had to put plastic milk bags over our socks to keep our feet dry.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:32:28 Post Subject:

Yea, and you wanted to look at p0rn? You had to steal your Dad's playboy!

FOX · Posted: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:23:06 Post Subject: