The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas! You joined Marapets on October 18, 2006, 9:48 pmYou joined Marapets on October 18, 2006, 9:48 pm
I am already in a great club..so no I won't be in yours.Mail is always open as long as you are not begging or asking for my pets or stuff in my gallery.People who keep e-mailing me for stuff will be blocked.Sorry.
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 *&+^ 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 would 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, 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 were horrible! 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 out of luck! 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 hooped 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! 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 JiffyPop thinggy 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!
I'll be turning 30 years old in a few months. That gave me a laugh thanks for that.
117 years & 3 months ago 1st Apr 2009 09:19
lo thats a good one!!!!!!!! for my first Barbie Doll i had to save my 25 cents a week for 8 weeks and then send it in to a cereal company and wait another 2 months for it to come in the mail. there were no options of just running out to get one.
117 years, 3 months & 12 days ago 21st Mar 2009 07:25
Hehe, its 5 years to go to 30, but I really enjoyed the reading ^^
I remember when I got a brand new SegaII 16bits at the age of 10.. And I was like: YEEHAAW!!
117 years, 3 months & 25 days ago 7th Mar 2009 15:19
Best thing I've read in ages! thanks for the giggle!
117 years, 3 months & 26 days ago 6th Mar 2009 13:00
Remember the 1st channel changers you had to push the buttons down till they clicked? Thus the term "Clicker" I believe.
117 years, 4 months & 18 days ago 11th Feb 2009 12:51
LOL
The phone at our house was on one of the last exchanges to get swapped over, we were on a party line (shared between 6 homes - with a operator).
this post is too funny
117 years, 4 months & 19 days ago 10th Feb 2009 19:48
WOW That's weird. I could never survive back then.
117 years, 7 months & 9 days ago 20th Nov 2008 21:11
OMG! Too funny! I still have my cassette tapes full of @#$%ed up music that I taped off the radio! I hope you don't mind but I had to copy this so I could let my husband read it. He doesn't have a marapets account and I really wanted to share this with him. And worst of all there was no marapets! LOL
117 years, 7 months & 23 days ago 6th Nov 2008 08:06
LOL...Never mind the big brother! Our remote had a long cord....Just follow the cord my mom used to say.
117 years, 8 months & 6 days ago 25th Oct 2008 13:08
That bought back memories ROFL the pop corn went more over the floor. No remote hog just a big brother who use to boss us girls to get up and change the channel and the phone we never got one till I was a bit older (14) and it was one with the round dial and if you never went all the way round you never knew who you were ringing. Thanks for the memories
117 years, 9 months & 22 days ago 8th Sep 2008 15:32
18 years, 4 months & 7 days ago
That's weird. I could never survive back then.
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