# back in the day

Category: Joke Board

## Post 1 by Texas Shawn (The cute, cuddley, little furr ball) on Friday, 10-Feb-2006 3:27:43

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'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 or 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! >>> >>>And talk about hardship? You couldn't just download porn. You had >>>to >>>steal it from your brother or bribe some
homeless dude to buy you >>>a >>>copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11. Those were your options. >>> >>>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 ass. 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 bastards! >>> >>>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 guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980. >> >>

## Post 2 by yellowcat (Zone BBS Addict) on Friday, 10-Feb-2006 6:15:17

LOL like it... *evil grin*

## Post 3 by torian princess (The original Blakanadian.) on Friday, 10-Feb-2006 23:24:50

I lurved that one!

## Post 4 by Resonant (Find me alive.) on Saturday, 11-Feb-2006 3:17:36

Hehe, that's really cool!
Erin, the old fart

## Post 5 by dissonance (Help me, I'm stuck to my chair!) on Saturday, 11-Feb-2006 14:31:19

wow`

## Post 6 by TexasRed (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Saturday, 11-Feb-2006 15:29:28

I laughed my ass off over this one, it was great, thanks

## Post 7 by julians mom (Veteran Zoner) on Saturday, 11-Feb-2006 20:01:49

ha ha ha lol that was funny