The Spoiled Under 30 Crowd

[DR104 141]

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 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 t o go t o 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, 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! Your guy was a

little square! You

actually h ad 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

a** 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!

Oh yeah, and a seatbelt was Mom throwing her arm

across your chest

every

time she hit the brakes.

Regards,

The over 30 Crowd

Edited January 21, 2008 by DR104

[RescueKujo 130]

You had the Atari 2600?? All I had was Pong, and that was the 1 time every 2 weeks we went to Pizza Hut and sat down to eat our pizza!

But then again, I got my driver's license in 1978, and spent many days before school sitting in the line at the corner Texaco for the 57 cent/gallon gas.

A vast menu at either the McDonald's or Jack in the Box was hamburger, cheeseburger and a double decker with whatever name the fast food joint gave it. And don't forget the Filet-O-Fish or Moby Jack.

There was actually a NBA team in San Diego. and we were on the verge of getting a NHL team. The Padres had just become a Major League team, the Chargers were still in the American Football League with the Jets and Patriots.

My dad had a Corvair, and my mom drove a Chevy II station wagon.

[bob803 1]

The cartoons we had were classic and worth the wait. Tom and Jerry beat the crap out of each other. The drunk stork in Bugs Bunny was drunk. Everyone smoked. You don;t see that today.

[NJMedic 96]

My TV choices when I was a kid was I Love Lucy reruns (still funny), The Brady Bunch, Partidge Family, Adam 12

There was instant reply but only for the really exciting plays.

Lindsey Nelson, Bob Murphy, and Ralph Kiiner called Mets games

Wooden baseball bats.

Recording our favorite songs off the radio using a tape cassette.

Sticking magazines in our socks to act as shin guards while playing ice hockey on a frozen pond

3 speed Schwin chopper bicycles

Collecting baseball cards and flipping

Stick ball and stair ball

Stealing my parent's lime to make baselines

I remember chasing fire engines by listening to the siren and looking for the spill pattern on the street from the tank overflow to determine which way they turned

In the summer leaving the house at sunrise and not coming home until it was dark and my parents not having a clue where I was.

Staying out all night and playing "Chase" all over town

I remember getting excited when I read of a new show in TV Guide called "Emergency"

When Times Square, 42 Street, and the PA Bus Termimal were prevert heaven

Delivering newspapers on my bike after school and at 5 in the morning on Sundays...and trying to collect money every week

Make your own T-shirts with iron on emblems

Team USA beating the Russians at Lake Placid

Going to my uncle's church in the South Bronx in the Seventies and playing stickball with the kids in the projects and being the only white kid for miles. They let me play because I was related to the Monsignor..

GAF Viewfinders

Commodore 2600 computers with BASIC

Whiffle Ball

Interior attacks using John Bean Hi Pressure booster lines

Scott brand sling packs

When WNYC use to show "On The Job"

When FDNY used to have their big Fire Prevention show near Mama Leones.

See what you started

[HOOKS1247 0]

you guys are hitting it right on the head, does anyone even want to start in on the music? the stuff these kids listen to today is horrible. just give me some good ol' rock n' roll.

the little rascles-

heckle and jeckle

kick the can

actually playing in the street - all day/all night

your father whstling out the window to let you know dinner is ready, or its time to come in

snow storms (more than a foot or two)

the rangers on ch.9

chopper bicyles, before OCC

1 car in the family, usually a station wagon

my first car was a Monza, not a BMW

Man i could go on all day with this

STAY SAFE BROTHERS

JS

[FirNaTine 370]

What's even sadder boys and girls is the fact that the spoiled youth of today make up a good percentage of the FD and PD. Add to this the fact that the standards for many Depts. have been lowered and we got a real problem on our hands. Especially the Officers! :angry:

[firemoose827 324]

I believe the problem with young officers today is the fact that they are always around the firehouse, live at home still and are able to take all the training they can get, and dont have family priorities or home priorities to take care of. They are always around so thats what the dept will want, not taking into consideration they are un-experienced. I remember when it took a good ten years before you were even considered for a promotion...oh well.

You guys made me feel old! Reading all of this stuff I nodded in agreement with about 99% of it!!

Todays youth just doesnt understand how easy they have it.

Fun topic!!

[RescueKujo 130]

you guys are hitting it right on the head, does anyone even want to start in on the music?

Oh yeah...

Innagaddadavida by Iron Butterfly-no way you'd hear a 9 minute guitar solo today on commercial radio...

Led Zepplin, AC/DC, Styx and too many others to mention...

Stadium shows were the norm, not a once in a lifetime thing.

Now, let's discuss apparatus....

Crowns, Pirsch, Maxims were all sitting on the apparatus floors

Ward LaFrances and American LaFrances also. 700s, 900s and Centurys galore...

Leather helmets, pullup boots and knee length coats...

As Elvis sang...."Memories, turning like the pages in my mind"....

[tdc202 0]

"Lindsey Nelson, Bob Murphy, and Ralph Kiiner called Mets games"

I remember Kiner couldn't say a sentence without slurring his speech halfway through it.

I remember watching the Yankees on Channel 11 with The Scooter, Bill White and Frank Messier

I remember going to calls with my dad in his truck,following the engine and seeing the guys on the back step pulling up thier boots and getting ready to go to work.

Your all right the list could go on forever and ever......................

[Guest]

You Guys are scaring me lol....

[DaRock98 76]

All of you are just mad because your OLD!!

[gss131 212]

"Lindsey Nelson, Bob Murphy, and Ralph Kiiner called Mets games"

I remember Kiner couldn't say a sentence without slurring his speech halfway through it.

--

and all the beer commercials during the game,pabst,rheingold,schaefer the one beer to have when your having more than one

Edited January 22, 2008 by gss131

[RescueKujo 130]

All of you are just mad because your OLD!!

you young whippersnapper, I'd beat you with my cane if I could get up out of my wheelchair

[ex-commish 490]

I used to love Wide World of Sports on Saturday afternoon. How about Monday night football with Howard Cosell?? Making popcorn in the pot. Phil Risuto on channel 11 with the Yankees. I was either playing basketball, baseball, football, riding my bike or anything outdoors...play station and Myspace was unheard of. Sundays were sacred. Wouldn't dare go to a friends house. Dinner at 2pm. Football games on all day. Grandparents had to watch Lawerence Welk at night. Video cameras were attached to the VHS. The Frazier-Ali fight. How about Ed ( Too Tall) Jones debut as a boxer?? Should of stayed with the Cowboys.

How about Raquel Welch, Angie Dickinson, the Lander twins and Farrah Fawcett???

Who remembers the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue of the Beauties of Brazil??

The fire service...

Open cabs

Back step riding.....lots of fun in the winter when it was 10 degrees outside.

Long boots and coats

60-control dispatchers were volunteers

Rubber gloves

Those big Plectron boxes we were issued

Essentials was taught in firehouses

The fire training center had only the burn building, tower, oil pits and propane shed.

No incident command, accountability, nomex hoods, pass alarms. Never wore a mask unless you really needed it.

Most importantly...you respected your senior brothers, learned and kept your mouth shut. You proved yourself by your actions and not with the amount of FDNY sitckers on your helmet or the brightest blue light on your car.

Those were the days...

[firecapt32 282]

I'm not even going there on this subject--you guys have fun with it-wait i would go there but i cant remember!!! I am just glad the fire service has come a long way. ohh and greatfull for remote control too. ok ok you started it, when i first joined november 1966 ,we had 2 scott air pacs on the ladder truck and six Filter masks. good god what the hell did we breathe in??

[LTNRFD 266]

I'm not even going there on this subject--you guys have fun with it-wait i would go there but i cant remember!!! I am just glad the fire service has come a long way. ohh and greatfull for remote control too. ok ok you started it, when i first joined november 1966 ,we had 2 scott air pacs on the ladder truck and six Filter masks. good god what the hell did we breathe in??

What you were breathing was stuff that you could pronounce. Just good down to earth smoke. Most likely less harmful then a stale cigar. Those were the days, snot coming out of your nose.

[AndyC3J 190]

My father tells me all the "mischievous" things he and his buddies used to do as kids/teens. Back then, it was just "boys being boys". Today? It'd get you 5-10 behind bars, and maybe sued on top of that!

The rest of this thread is definitely stirring up memories of better times. Oh, to have known then what I know now, and if only it were possible to do it all over again.

[27east 19]

"Lindsey Nelson, Bob Murphy, and Ralph Kiiner called Mets games"

I remember Kiner couldn't say a sentence without slurring his speech halfway through it.

I hate to say this, but he's worse now...

yes I'm 22