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Date Posted: 18:09:48 11/10/03 Mon
Author: Richard Munoz
Author Host/IP: cache-rl02.proxy.aol.com / 152.163.252.226
Subject: Re: The 1980's
In reply to: Helaine 's message, "The 1980's" on 06:17:02 01/05/03 Sun

Hey,
Beth my cuz set me up in here. I just wanted to say I was sorry for the way I treated you back in the day. I still feel bad about it. I always remember you on Dec. 12th... I am sorry
Richard


>Hi, I grew up in Starret City in the 1980's and
>someone sent me this....it's hilarious so I thought
>I'd pass it on.
>
>Subject: Spoiled Little Brats!!!
>
>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 through year 'round blizzards carrying their
>younger siblings on their backs to their one-room
>schoolhouse where they maintained a straight-A average
>despite their full-time after-school job at the local
>textile mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour
>just to help keep their family from starving to death!
>
>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've reached the ripe old age of
>thirty-five, 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
>goddamned 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!
>And there was no email! We had to actually write
>somebody a letter with a pen!-- and then you had to
>walk all the way across the street and put it in the
>damn mailbox and it would take like a week to get
>there!
>
>And there were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to
>steal music, you had to go to the record store and
>shoplift it yourself!
>Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the
>radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning
>and screw it all up!
>
>You want to hear about hardship?
>We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting! If you
>were on the phone and somebody else called you they
>got a busy signal!
>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 boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug
>dealer, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up
>and take your chances, mister!
>
>And we didn't have any fancy Sony Play station
>videogames 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
>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 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! A tall guy sat in front of you, you were
>screwed!
>And sure, we had cable television, but back then that
>was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen
>menu! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide
>to find out what was on!
>
>And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get
>cartoons on Saturday morning... ...D'ya hear what I'm
>saying!?!
>We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little brats!
>
>That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today
>have got it too easy. You're spoiled, I swear to God!
>You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in the 80's!!

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