When I was a kid

[Tupac]

I have an issue for #9 and #13.........


Back in 1970, the atari 2600 didnt exist until 1977

he was born in 1970, he says he is 40.

[Blooz]

It was the time of cool clothes...

And...cool cars

And...drab toys

[Scherf]

You couldn't pay me to be a kid these days.

Back in my day, sex couldn't get you dead.

Back in my day, I'd have had to have fallen a long, long way before encountering drugs that would kill you. Now a bad batch of eccies in a nightclub and you're done.

Back in my day, an ordinary working man could pretty much count on getting a nice, quiet house on a quarter acre block in the burbs and still have the time and money to go fishing. Pipe dream now.

Back in my day, you could tell kids to study hard and the future would be bright. I now know chronically-unemployed engineers.

Back in my day, capitalism worked. Now outsourcing has left just the carcass and derivatives speculation is leaving the bones clean. We all now depend on the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China.

&^%$ the present and !@#$ the future.

[maddafinga]

Some good stuff right there.  I'm not quite 40 yet, still got about 4 years to go.  The whole thing kind of reminds me of this though... http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/grumpy-old-man/2476/

[Tupac]

You couldn't pay me to be a kid these days.
Back in my day, sex couldn't get you dead.
Back in my day, I'd have had to have fallen a long, long way before encountering drugs that would kill you. Now a bad batch of eccies in a nightclub and you're done.
Back in my day, an ordinary working man could pretty much count on getting a nice, quiet house on a quarter acre block in the burbs and still have the time and money to go fishing. Pipe dream now.
Back in my day, you could tell kids to study hard and the future would be bright. I now know chronically-unemployed engineers.
Back in my day, capitalism worked. Now outsourcing has left just the carcass and derivatives speculation is leaving the bones clean. We all now depend on the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China.
&^%$ the present and !@#$ the future.

Only way you can get a job now is if your a teacher or a pilot. Im gonna be a pilot.

[cattb]

The dat tof the table juke box with 45's are long gone.

[CAP1]

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 my 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 forty, 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!

1) 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!!  

2) 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!  Stamps were 10 cents!

3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us.  As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!

4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes!  If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!  There were no CD players!  We had tape decks in our car.  We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless.  Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby!  Dig?

6) 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!

7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!!  Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!!  And then there's TEXTING.  Yeah, right.  Please!  You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

8) 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 parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!!  You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics!  We had the Atari 2600!  With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'.  Your screen 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!

10) 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 bellybutton and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!!  NO REMOTES!!!  Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!

11) 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 brats!

12) And we didn't have microwaves.  If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove!  Imagine that!    

13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long.  Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort.  And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!  
And car seats - oh, please!  Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on.  If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!  
See!  That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten!  You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970   or any time before!
 

number 5......i had a mustang with an 8 track......had the partridge family, beatles, monkees, some johnny cash........all till i drove it into a deeeeeep puddle iin the road.........flooded the interior, and trashed all of my tapes.

[cattb]

I had one of these, a 67. Had front disc brakes, was a late model 67 because the 68s actually had the front disc brakes and the 67 had the front drum brakes if I recall correctly. Had a 383 mag in it. I had cassette tapes. Wish I kept it now of course. Also had a fastback 67 I had found in a carport the lady would not drive it anymore and paid 100.00 for it, sold it as well many years ago.

[bagrat]

i foresee advanced technology and more political correctness in the future with a nice serving of increased beuracracy to go with it. hooray for children of the future!

year 2060

grampa: u kids got it too easy with your gps watches and transporters, u kids are spoiled!

2nd grade billy: whats gps stand for? by the way another student in class is gonna sue me because my t-shirt offended him.

[Clone155]

I wonder what my kid's lives will be like...

"You kids have it so easy! I remember when I was a kid, if I had to go to the bathroom I had to walk to the bathroom! Now you kids have the bathroom come to you!"

[bravoa8]

You had it way too easy youngster! 

It's been easy compared to cavemen.

[sntslilhlpr6601]

Well in defense of my generation, I'm 20 and turning 21 early next year, were kinda screwed for the future.

There will be no social security by the time we are ready to retire.  

There's none left for them either! What're you complainin' about you whipper snapper! 

(22 today) 

[jay]

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 my 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 forty, 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!

1) 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!!   

2) 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!  Stamps were 10 cents!

3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us.  As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!

4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes!  If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!  There were no CD players!  We had tape decks in our car.  We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless.  Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby!  Dig?

6) 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!

7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!!  Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!!  And then there's TEXTING.  Yeah, right.  Please!  You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

8) 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 parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!!  You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics!  We had the Atari 2600!  With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'.  Your screen 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!

10) 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 bellybutton and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!!  NO REMOTES!!!  Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!

11) 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 brats!

12) And we didn't have microwaves.  If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove!  Imagine that!     

13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long.  Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort.  And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!   
And car seats - oh, please!  Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on.  If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!   
See!  That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten!  You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970   or any time before!
 

lol most the thing listed ive never really had (and i have a "normal" life) some of the ones on the list:

5)never had a car (or truck) with a CD player in it,most the computers in my house look like there from 1998!!

6)never had call waiting shocking isnt it

7)aint got a cellular device either (cant pay for one)

9)didnt have a xbox until this year,until then it was a N64 all the way    barely touch the xbox now,actually miss the N64 

10-11) didnt have cable (or TV of anytype) when i was younger only AIR (never woke up in time for saturday mornings  )

13)good thing i live on the river then  would have perfered to live in the 70's instead of now!

and you forgot most cars didnt have A/C

&#$% the future (politics and such)

[Yenny]

No way, life isn't hard til you have Asian parents! an bellybutton kicking meant an bellybutton kicking!

[Chalenge]

It's been easy compared to cavemen.

Yeeeh.... funny.
1) Our library was in the outhouse and we used it for toilet paper.
2) We got mail when we went to town for groceries. Groceries meant flour coffee lard and dried beans. Only. Mail meant maybe a catalog that would end up in the library.
3) I never got a beating from any adult. We got 'switched' if we were really bad. Once was enough.
4) We didnt have a music store to 'steal' from but I can tell you no one stole anything. Sign of our times I guess.
5) Our radio was for programs that came on after dinner and just before bed. Our television had only two channels and so it was on for the Presidential Address if we knew it would be on. TV Guide was a luxury.
6) Our phone was for emergencies. If the phone rang it usually meant bad news... or that bad news was coming for a visit.
7) Our cell phone was a bell marked '1 mile' which meant thats about how far you could hear it. After that distance you might miss dinner which might happen once and once only.
8) Caller ID was the girl operator talking to you before she connected the call. She always gossiped before and after and probably listened to everything in between.
9) Games? Games were played outside and usually in the woods or down at the creek.
10) The TV channel never changed because there was Dads channel and NOT Dads channel? Remember the switch.
11) Kids dont have anything on TV to watch unless Dad is watching TV.
12) Microwaves? We didnt have a freezer until I was nearly in high school. That meant we could finally stop canning things and until then we canned everything!
13) We played outside when we had time to play. There were times we played all day. Sunday usually. The truck was used for work and getting the mail or hauling everyone to Church. I got up one Sunday and went out to play before church. I had to go to church that day with muddy legs and that led to the switch.

Say what you want but I dont think kids today are lucky at all! Easy? They have it easy but it isnt doing them any good. Far from it!