Email tidbit for the week

I can't remember what email things I have posted in the past and I'm sure this will have some repeats, but I found this hilarious today.  Thanks to my friend, Robin for the funny.  I have edited it some:

When I was a kid adults use to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were back in the day.  Walking uphill five miles to school in snow, barefoot, both ways...blah, blah, blah.  I swore that when I had kids I would never lay that bunch of crap on them about how easy I had it or how hard life was, but then I had kids and turned forty.

My god, but these kids today have it made!  Life is a breeze for you little twerps.  I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in damn Utopia!  You have know idea how good you have it.  Why back in my day...

• We didn't have car seats to save our lives.  Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on for dear life.  If you were in the front seat, 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!
• We didn't have the Internet.  If we wanted to know something we had to go to the library and look it up in a book, and we had to find the book by using the card catalog!
• We had no email.  We had to write somebody a letter, and we had to walk outside and down the walk to put it in the mailbox.  And it took a week to get there!
• Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us.  As a matter of fact, the parents of all our friends also had permission to kick our ass!  No where was safe.
• We didn't have have MP3 players, ITunes, or Napsters.  If we wanted to steal music we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and usually ended up with the DJ talking over the beginning or the ending of the song.  
• We didn't have CD players.  We had tapes and when the tape was finished we had to hit "eject" and we were lucky if the tape came out in one piece, but it usually came out all undone and tangled and then it was useless and we had to start all over again.
• We didn't have fancy crap like call waiting   If you called someone and he was on the phone then you got a busy signal and had to try again.  We didn't have caller ID.  If the phone rang you had no idea who it was!  It could be your friend, your neighbor, your parents, your boss, your principal, your drug dealer...you just didn't know.  You had to pick up and take your chances!
• We didn't have any freakin' cell phones either!  If you left the house, you just didn't make or receive a damn call.  You actually had to be out of touch with your friends!  The horror!  
• We didn't have any Playstations, Xbox games or Wii with high resolution 3-D graphic.  We had Atari where your screen guy was a little square and you had to use your imagination!  There weren't any levels or screens.  You just kept playing while it got harder, and harder, and harder until you died.  Like LIFE!
• We didn't have any TV menu.  We had a little book called TV guide.  We didn't have any remotes either.  You wanted to change the channel?  You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV and change it.
• We didn't have the Cartoon Network either.  We got cartoons once a week each Saturday morning and then we had to wait ALL week before we got them again.
• And our parents told us to stay outside and play...all day long...no matter the weather.  No electronics to keep us busy.  And if we came back inside before we were called?  We were doing chores!

You kids seriously have no idea what I'm talking about.  You're all spoiled rotten!  You wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in the 1970's!