From some contest in which Boomers were asked to tell
 Gen Xers how much harder it was in the old days:

 In my day, we didn't have mouses to move the cursor around.
 We only had the arrows, and if the up arrow was broken and
 you needed to get to the top of the screen, well, you just
 hit the left arrow a thousand times, dadgummit.
        (Kevin Cuddihy, Fairfax)

 In my day, we couldn't afford shoes, so we went barefoot.
 In the winter we had to wrap our feet with barbed wire for
 traction.                 (Bill Flavin, Alexandria)

 In my day, we didn't have hand-held calculators.  We had
 to do addition on our fingers.  To subtract, we had to
 have some fingers amputated.
              (Jon Patrick Smith, Washington)

 In my day, we didn't have fancy high numbers. We had
 "nothing,"   "one," "twain" and "multitudes."
              (Elden Carnahan, Laurel)

 In my day, we didn't get that disembodied, slightly
 ticked-off voice saying `Doors closing.' We got on the
 train, the doors closed, and if your hand was sticking
 out it scraped along the tunnel all the damn way to the
 next station and it was a bloody stump at the end.
                 (Russell Beland, Springfield)

 In my day, attitudes were different. For example, women
 didn't like sex. At least that is what they told me.
                 (Tom Witte, Gaithersburg)

 In my day, we didn't have virtual reality. If a one-eyed
 razorback barbarian warrior was chasing you with an ax,
 you just had to hope you could outrun him.
               (Sarah M. Wolford, Hanover)

 Back in the 1970s we didn't have the space shuttle to get
 all excited about. We had to settle for men walking on the
 crummy moon.                 (Russell Beland, Springfield)

 In my day, we didn't have days. There was only "time for
 work,"  "time for pray" and "time for sleep." The sheriff
 would go around and tell everyone when to change.
               (Elden Carnahan, Laurel)

 In my day, people could only dream of hitchhiking a ride
 on a comet.
               (David Ronka, Charlottesville)

 In my day, we didn't have fancy health-food restaurants.
 Every day we ate lots of easily recognizable animal parts,
 along with potatoes drenched in melted fat from those
 animals. And we're all as strong as AAGGKK-GAAK Urrgh.
 Thud.          (Tom Witte, Gaithersburg)

 When I was your age, we didn't have fake doggie-do. We
 only had real doggie-do, and no one thought it was a
 damn bit funny.        (Brendan Bassett, Columbia)

 In my day, we didn't have water. We had to smash together
 our own hydrogen and oxygen atoms.  (Diana Hugue, Bowie)

 Kids today think the world revolves around them. In my
 day, the sun revolved around the world, and the world was
 perched on the back of a giant tortoise.
               (Jonathan Paul, Garrett Park)

 In the old days, nobody asked you to sign petitions. The
 sheriff just came to your house and told you you was part
 of a posse.             (Barry Blyveis, Columbia)

 In my day, we didn't have dogs or cats. All I had was
 Silver Beauty, my beloved paper clip.
                       (Jennifer Hart, Arlington)

 Back in my day, "60 Minutes" wasn't just a bunch of gray-
 haired liberal 80-year-old guys. It was a bunch of gray-
 haired liberal 60-year-old guys.
 (Russell Beland, Springfield, and Jerry Pannullo, Kensington)

 In my day, we didn't have Strom Thurmond. Oh, wait. Yes we
 did.                             (Peg Sheeran, Vienna)