When I was your age...

[MultiCanimefan]

I walked, WALKED, 15 miles in the snow to AND from school. Has any of your parents ever given you this speech when you were younger or some variant? God it annoyed me to no end. Yeah yeah, but mom and dad, I'd say, you weren't as stressed as us kids today. You didn't have to worry about pedophiles, texting prices, internet-bullies, sex scndals in schools and a whole bunch of other stuff. Anybody else here have some unfortunate memories, if so what did you asy to them?

[14hourlunchbreak]

Nah, not my parents. Their to young and hip for that triviality. I've never actually heard that from anybody.

[Twilight]

At 3/2/09 05:22 PM, MultiCanimefan wrote: If so what did you asy to them?

I survived your constant nagging.

[Dragoonwing]

Not for me because I already know they had a harder time than I did, especially my dad. Instead of bitching like you are, I try my hardest to make them proud for all their hard work.

[VirusN]

My dad had to kill a horse when he was 6 or something. now he calls me a pussy when i tell him that the dog should sleeo inside when it's cold outside..

[speakerlight]

well my mom was actually RICH so she did'nt have to walk,she toke a car.

[Conspiracy3]

15 miles through the snow uphill both ways.

[YahooAnswers]

My parents forced me to walk everyday to school and back to ensure I wouldn't grow up to be a lazy fatass. It worked, only I'm still lazy.

[Aryk]

At 3/2/09 05:25 PM, Conspiracy3 wrote: 15 miles through the snow uphill both ways.

Haha.

Yea my Dad has said that, but not 15 miles... more like 2.

[Krbyfan1]

No, because my parents were not Lou Pickles and have a fetish for the number 15.

[Papo]

But i doesn't snow in my country.

[FUNKbrs]

I went to school in the south before they started air conditioning schools, so everytime I had to write my hand would get stuck to the paper. Worse, once you got a little sweat droplet on the paper, your pencil wouldn't be able to leave a mark, so you'd have all these blank spots in your work.

I also remember when you had to hand copy articles out of an encyclopedia to get your reports turned in, instead of just copy/pasting them off the interent.

You young whipper snappers, you just don't know....

*shakes cane menacingly*

[InstantWayno]

I normally never heard anybody say something like that because it sounds like it would only come up if you were complaining about something trivial (aka the as the you don't know how good you have it response). I agree with Dragoonwing's view of this statement, being that you should acknowledge that is very likely that your parents/grandparents had it harder than you.

[Tri-Nitro-Toluene]

15 miles? Luxury! Bloody Luxury! In't my day we had to sprint 20 miles t'nearest railway station, find out that union strikes had cancelled all the trains then swim down't canal to get school!

You whipper snappers don't know how easy you've got it!

[His-Penis-is-on-Fire]

My grandfather used to do that all the fucking time.

Anything he didn't agree with was countered with a "when I was your age..." or "back in my day..."

[n64kid]

When I was your age, Pluto was a planet.

[I-RULE-OVER-ALL]

At 3/2/09 05:22 PM, MultiCanimefan wrote: I walked, WALKED, 15 miles in the snow to AND from school.

then there was no law that forced schools to transport students, so most kids walked once they got old enough to.

You didn't have to worry about pedophiles,

Don't give your address to people over the internet and you won't have to worry about them.

texting prices,

God forbid you can't text someone

:internet-bullies,

OH NO! INTERNET BULLIES ARE RUINING MY LIFE, quit being a pussy.

sex scndals in schools

Sex scandals? what are you running for congress?

and a whole bunch of other stuff. Anybody else here have some unfortunate memories, if so what did you asy to them?

quit thinking your parents are wrong because they are your parents, your hormones are simply clouding your thought because your a teenager.

[Prinzy2]

At 3/2/09 06:00 PM, I-RULE-OVER-ALL wrote:

At 3/2/09 05:22 PM, MultiCanimefan wrote: I walked, WALKED, 15 miles in the snow to AND from school.

Exercise is good for you.

You didn't have to worry about pedophiles,

Yes they did, it just wasn't as publicized.

texting prices,

Lose the cellphone and neither will you.

internet-bullies,

You guessed it, get off the internet and there will be no internet bullies

sex scndals in schools

I wish I was involved in a sex scandal in school.

and a whole bunch of other stuff. Anybody else here have some unfortunate memories, if so what did you asy to them?

Nothing, the quickest way to shut someone up is to agree with them.

[thisisL]

My dad tells me those stories every once in a while. I usually just walk out of the room and go upstairs or something.

The fucked up thing is, sometimes; he keeps telling the story to the air.

[ragingfred]

no because buses existed at the time.

[Raped]

Always always respect your parents no matter what. My parents have gone through harsh times and I respect them for that. You obviously don't have asian parents...

Respect what they have done. Sure they didn't have today's stresses but some things were pretty messed up back then. My parents survived a Khmer Rouge Regime genocide and are successful here today in America.

[smeagol1]

I remembered when I diden't have to suck old people dick just to afford my crack addiction.

Fucking Bush administration.

[thekingofmadness]

At 3/2/09 05:28 PM, ArykSB wrote:

At 3/2/09 05:25 PM, Conspiracy3 wrote: 15 miles through the snow uphill both ways.

Haha.

Yea my Dad has said that, but not 15 miles... more like 2.

My grandpa said 15 but in 30 below weather both ways.

[SteveGuzzi]

I didn't get the "walked 15 miles in the snow uphill both ways" lecture at any point, at least not seriously... but I did hear quite a bit about how miserable it was for my dad when he went to Catholic parochial school. Ya know, nuns cracking your knuckles with rulers over the slightest things, threatening damnation and hellfire, forcing left-handed kids to write with their right hands, et cetera.

Stuff like that.

[The-Eagle]

Just think, when you have kids, you can say "When I was your age we had to wear actual underwear and pants or we'd get surprise buttsex. So no more mini-skirts for you."

[iMate900]

I Take A Car So I Didn't Do What You Suffered From. Most Poor People In The Northeastern United States Force Their Children To Walk In The Snow To School And Back.

[Ericho]

At 3/2/09 05:22 PM, MultiCanimefan wrote: I walked, WALKED, 15 miles in the snow to AND from school.

So that's why we're getting so much fatter nowadays.

[JKMonkey]

18, Male

your 3 years younger than me, how could you have?

[Guywhoisawesome]

Maybe from a grandparent not your actuall parents though...

[Tramps]

My parents have never given me the "in my day..." speech. Thank god, really. Our generation does take a lot for granted, but we also have problems that weren't apparent back in their day. We all have our own problems, but accepting that each generation will have their own problems that you can't possibly understand is just part of life and growing up.