The spoiled under 30 crowd-email joke

anyone under 30 out there??:)

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD
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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
> rantings 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 & NO 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 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 BRATSS!
>
> 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 KIDS WOULD NEVER have lasted five minutes back in 1980's!
>
> Regards,
> The over 30 Crowd
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