From Tough to Karen in 100 Years

I run a large local Facebook page and its amazing to me how people complain about the smallest things. We recently went from our garbage being collected only once a week. We're in an uproar. Posts with 400 comments. Calling for the head of our elected officials (some of which that have run the town wonderfully for 10 or more years). It doesn't matter that theres only one other large town in our county that provides garbage pickup. For the same or more taxes. Today the garbage trucks came at 6 A.M. and woke someone up. The local chinese is terrible (I'm guilty of this I admit). The roads have some potholes. The power went out for 10 minutes. Someone sped by at 45. You name it we've got a first world bitch about it.

It makes me realize we've become Soft. Spoiled. Is it Adam Carolla's book "in 20 years we'll all be women"? Too late. If you had to travel somewhere anytime in history up to 100 years ago, you were uncomfortable, riding or walking. Braving the elements. You could easily get stopped and hurt or killed. Today we'll complain that the guy sat too close to us on the bus to the city. The 2 year old Toyota Corolla that will comfortably get you from NY to LA and back.. repeatedly.. at exactly 68 degrees, dry and safe... "NEEDS TO GO". Its not swanky or roomy enough to carry your butt, a lobster a dozen clams and a carrot cake from Wegmans. Mazda's rides too hard I NEED the Lexus.

In all the thousands of ears we've been on the planet you needed to brave the elements just to live. To keep a home warm and filled with food and protected. Wood had to be cut down, chopped, dryed and brought in regardless of the weather. You had to trudge to an out building because we only recently got indoor plumbing. You had to hunt and preserve food, sometimes all year long. If a fire broke out, you were pretty much on your own. And remember no running water. Cooling was at best a good wind. In the last 100 years we've gone to multiple cooling zone and piping heat into our bathroom floors and showers. We heat our driveways to melt the snow.

We went from thousands of years of carrying and heating buckets from the lake to instant hot water in just over 100 years. Our leg muscles didn't stay strong a minute longer than they needed to. Don't get me started that we now pay people to harvet our food and keep our lawns and flowers nice, but have to pay a whole new (Gym) industry to get us back in shape, in perfectly controlled 68 degree of modern comfort because we are on our way to 400lbs.

For thousands of year we had fire. Heck till 1960 we used charcoal. We have an oven, a broiler, an inside grill, at least one gas outdoor barbecue grill (sometimes installed in its own outdoor kitchen), an air fryer, a crock pot, a pressure cooker, a George Forman grill. We live better than we ever have before. And never have we apprieciated it less...