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We've all heard the stereotypical old people rant. In my day we walked to school! Seven miles in the snow! Uphill both ways!

Uphill both ways? That's not possible! Or is it?

Technically speaking, there just has to be a hill between your house and the school. You go up one side of the hill on the way to schoo, and the opposite side on the way home.

So, any other seeming nonsense that actually makes sense when you look at it closer?

We've all heard the stereotypical old people rant. In my day we walked to school! Seven miles in the snow! Uphill both ways!

Uphill both ways? That's not possible! Or is it?

Technically speaking, there just has to be a hill between your house and the school. You go up one side of the hill on the way to schoo, and the opposite side on the way home.

So, any other seeming nonsense that actually makes sense when you look at it closer?

OR both your house and school have to be on the top of separate hills... that ivolves both up and downhill traversal. But yeah old people do like to comment on how hard their lives used to be... WW2 this, Cold war that... at least you lived in the 60's ffs

Let me tell you sonny... let me tell you straight
You kids today ain't never had it tough
Always had everything handed to you on a silver plate
You lazy brats think nothing's good enough

Well, nobody ever drove me to school when it was ninety degrees below
We had to walk buck naked through forty miles of snow
Worked in the coal mines twenty two hours a day for just half a cent
Had to sell my internal organs just to pay the rent

When I was your age. When I was your age
When I was your age. When I was your age

Let me tell you something, you whiny little snot
There's something wrong with all you kids today
You just don't appreciate all the things you've got
We were hungry, broken and miserable and we liked it fine that way

There were seventy three of us living in a cardboard box
All I got for Christmas was a lousy bag of rocks
Every night for dinner, we had a big 'ol chunk of dirt
If we were really good, we didn't get dessert

When I was your age. When I was your age
When I was your age. When I was your age

Didn't have no telephone, didn't have no FAX machine
All we had was a couple cans and a crummy piece of string
Didn't have no swimming pool when I was just a lad
Our neighbor's septic tank was the closest thing we had
Didn't have no dental floss, had to use old rusty nails
Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails
Didn't have no water bed, had to sleep on broken glass
Didn't have no lawnmower, we used our teeth to cut the grass

What's the matter now, sonny, you say you don't believe this junk?
You think my story's wearin' kinda thin?
I tell you one thing, I never was such a disrespectful punk
Back in my time, we had a thing called discipline

Dad would whoop us every night till a quarter after twelve
Then he'd get too tired and he'd make us whoop ourselves
Then he'd chop me into pieces and play frisbee with my brain
And let me tell ya, Junior, you never heard me complain

When I was your age. When I was your age
When I was your age. When I was your age

We've all heard the stereotypical old people rant. In my day we walked to school! Seven miles in the snow! Uphill both ways!

Uphill both ways? That's not possible! Or is it?

Technically speaking, there just has to be a hill between your house and the school. You go up one side of the hill on the way to schoo, and the opposite side on the way home.

So, any other seeming nonsense that actually makes sense when you look at it closer?

Not to mention that snow can drift fall or melt during school and change the direction of uphill

It's kinda true though. Was pretty hard back then. My uncle walked to school in the snow with no shoes. He's a tough fuck.

my 5'2 Grandfather claimed that he walked 15 miles to school every day, and even in 4 feet of snow

When I was young like most here I used to say "Make way for the young!"

Now, just like my dear grandfather always used to say to me, I also say "Shut up ya little f**k ya bug me"

my grandma says there was a war when she was little... pf like I'd believe that. Everyone knows war is exported from western Europe, we don't let that crazy shit actually take place here.