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I usually try to be as original as possible on this blog... meaning, I post my own stuff and make my own comments. However, a day or so ago, this item was shared with me on Facebook. I have read many similar items regarding this time period and have always felt they meant something to me personally. This particular item, however, took on a different stance and besides being hilarious, hit home a lot more due to the fact that these days, I am constantly dealing with Gen Y kids. A bunch of kids that throw Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs completely out the window because the bottom of that hierarchy is of no/little significance to them... and I would love to tell these Gen Y kids... I completely agree with the following article... you spoiled brats....

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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...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 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 that 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 catalogs!!!

There was no email!!! We had to actually write someone a letter, with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mail box and it would take like a week to get there!

There was no MP3's or Napster! 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 usually talked over the beginning and mess it all up!

We didn't have the fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and someone else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
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 Mom, your boss, your Bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick up and take your chances mister!

We didn't have the fancy Sony PlayStation video games with high resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! with games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids' and your guy was a 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 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 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-bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove... Imagine that! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have it too easy.
You're spoiled.
You guys wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes back in 1980 and before!


Regards,The over 30 Crowd