;D 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 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 darn
> >  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's usually talk over the beginning
> >  And @#*% it all up!
> >  
> >    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'. 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 was 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
> >  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
> >    Rat-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!
> >  
> >    Regards,
> >    The over 30 Crowd
> >    [smiley=smokin.gif]

I'm not over 30 just yet, but on the weekend found myself saying to my 9 year old brother - 'there was no such thing as an iPod when I was your age'...

It was at that point when I realised I'm a real grown up.