Little Inspiration and Giggle for today (For the over 40 Crowd)

The over 40 crowd will appreciate this :-)

Hilarious! Growing up without a cell phone


If you are 36, or older, you might 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... Barefoot...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 my 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 forty, 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!

1) 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!!

2) 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! Stamps were 10 cents!

3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!

4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

5) 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! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?

6) 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!

7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH!!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

8) And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen 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!

10) 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!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!

11) 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 @#$%&!

12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!

13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!

And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, 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!

See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before!

Regards,
The Over 40 Crowd

Amazing Quotes Collection by Greg Neal

Amazing Short Quotes About Life

If you cannot change the world, you can present the world with one improved person, yourself.

There are some situations where all you can do
Is simply let go and move on,
Gather your courage and choose a direction
That carries you toward a new dawn.

People favor underdogs, but follow only top dogs.
Fight for underdogs anyway!


The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest minds;
Think big anyway!

Success is not measured by how well you fulfill the expectations of others, but by how honestly you live up to your own expectations.

In everyone’s life there are moments of pride and accomplishment that are remembered forever.

If your dreams turn to dust vacuum.


All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.

Rise up every morning, telling yourself that "Today will be a happy day". Say "I believe I will handle any problems successfully today. In fact! I believe something good will happen to me!".

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you "If we cannot be ourselves, there is no need for a mirror."


Hope abides; therefore I abide.
Countless frustrations have not cowed me.
I am still alive, vibrant with life.
The black cloud will disappear,
The morning sun will appear once again
In all its supernal glory.

Life is like an hour glass, every grain of sand means something.

Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.


Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence

Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.


Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

A Little Sunday Inspiration

To start the work week :-)

Life Inspiration Quote of the Day

TGIF!! So glad it is the weekend. I am getting married in October and my bridal party has alot of drama. The 4 girls I have in my wedding (2 best friends, sister and cousin) are not getting along :-( Makes me so sad since I love all 4 of them so much. They are my 4 BFF's so today's quote is more to give me a little inspiration today. I am feeling down. I hate feeling down when I am usually so positive frowns frowns


“Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the cal...iber of who you are and that you are valuable to your friends, and your family.”

Inspirational life quotes for June 6, 2010

Another weekend has come and gone. Sometimes they are just too short. :-) Back to work tomorrow. So much to do and just not enough hours in the day to do all you want to accomplish
Let's start our week out on a positive note. Here's your daily inspiration quotes

"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will."

"Get busy living, or get busy dying."

"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

"Failure is taking the path that everyone else does, success is making your own path."

"Success is determined by how determined you are to succeed."

Your life is your own destiny. You make your own way. Hope everyone's monday is great tomorrow.
Going to watch my Sunday evening lifetime movies now. I just love the lifetime channel