Times Change!

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It's interesting to me to think that in not too long (who knows perhaps now) kids will look at a newspaper and go wow what is that? I mean I admit that I don't recall my parents sitting down every morning to read the daily news, but we did take the paper and occasionally they took the time to read it. I also remember my Grandpa Holdaway sitting in his chair in front of the window at the kitchen table with newspaper in hand. He would be sitting there with legs crossed and reading. I'm sure that it was either the sports section or the obituaries.

It's a little sad to be seeing newspapers all over the country closing because no one wants to buy them. I admit I am part of the reason. If I want to know something I don't buy a newspaper I turn on the computer. I know that is the way of life that we are ever changing and rethinking things, but it doesn't mean that there isn't a little bittersweet with it as well. I think it is only fitting with this post to add an email I got about kids today. Enjoy...

30 and over...

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 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 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 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 library and Look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!

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!

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 &$%! No where was safe!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters! You wanted to Steal music, you had to hitchhike to the 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 mess 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 the tape would come undone cause that's how we rolled, dig?

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 either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, Your mom, your boss, 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'. 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!

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 butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel! 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!

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 got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted Five minutes back in 1980 or before!

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd