Kids these days

I have my nephew over with me and the one thing he always reminds me about it how bored he is.

With his multiple gaming consoles of every brand, hundreds of games, television, computers and the internet.... I'm always surprised to see that anyone in this day and age can be bored. For when I was a boy, we were never bored. There was always something to do.

This comic pretty much sums it all up for today's youth.


http://www.arcamax.com/zits/s-723402-770841

When I was a kid, the only thing we really had was our bikes. Everything else we made ourselves. Boomerangs out of paddle pop sticks. Spears out of tree branches and a knife. Rockets out of Coke bottles, some vinegar and a bit of baking powder. The list can go on all night, as far back as my memory can take me.

Yet, my nephew can sit there as we both build a fire so we can cook a BBQ dinner. I don't use gas bottles and instant flames. I burn things the old fashioned way, using discarded wood, old fench posts that have been sitting in the weather for over 50 years and have now been replaced with colourbond steel.


I got him to build the fire. And while we waited for the embers to make enough heat for us to cook on, he said "I'm so bored.... is the fire ready yet?"

So I explained that we have to build up the fire to get it up to temperature so we can cook our food.

He didn't get it. Why do it this way when you can just turn on the gas?

So he sat there, with a pair of tongs in his hand turning the meat when I told him to. Wishing he was inside where he could play his game boy, his play station, switch TV channels because he lost interest in the other 4 shows that are on at the moment.

I love my nephew, but he really reminds me of all the other kids I dislike.

When you're young, you look at adults when seem to not get you. As you get older, you figure out what they were blabbering on about. "The bloody kids these days!"