[StBernard] The spoiled under-30 crowd

[Westley Annis]

	THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!! 
	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
diatribes 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, I was going to lay a bunch of stuff 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 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 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 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 stuff 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'. 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 on-screen 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 butt 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 rats!

	And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we
had to use the stove or go build a 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! 
	Regards, The over 30 Crowd 
	(Send this to someone you'd like to make smile, whether they are
under 30 or not.)