PEOPLE OVER FORTY SHOULD BE DEAD

EMail | 1/17/2004 | W. Toeppe

[SnarlinCubBear]

I remember saying "see ya later" to my Mom and out the door I went. I came home when I was hungry or it was getting dark.

Yes, my memories too are of my playful exploration, rather than living in the house with my family. Ate at home, then, run as fast as I could out the backdoor to find my playmates. When I think about the trouble I could have encountered.... But it was a different time then. Seems like there weren't so many predators.

There was a large old house around the corner from me, needing paint badly, wherein resided an old lady, wrinkled with age. She scared me, her house scared me. I'd never seen anything like it. I remember one day (can't recall how I got there) sitting in her living room, rocking in her chair, as she tried to serve me tea. I was curious, she was lonely. We formed a friendship of sorts.

I recall decorating my bike (when I was about 8), and riding it uptown to the "square" where I rode in a 4th of July parade. No one organized it, I just wanted to do it, and could. Didn't need a permit.

Lovely memories....

[freekitty]

Those were the days and somehow we got through childhood without being drugged.

[ARCADIA]

I also had a rack of firearms and ammo in my room since I was 10. The old man and I would go shooting almost every Saturday, and I would just clean my stuff and put it away after wards. It never occurred to me to take one into school to create a savage blood fest. Bullies were simply corrected in the school yard with your bare knuckles, it was the honorable thing to do, and your classmates would crowd around, cheer their side on, and usually stop the fight before it got too messy.

It must suck to be a kid today.

[BSunday]

I'd hate to be a kid today.

I would too. I try to give my kids as much room to be kids as possible. I'm 39

[BSunday]

make us think that America is "just like everywhere else" make us ashamed of our great spirit, make us think that we have no enemies and then take over a generation with no back bone and no ability to stand on it's own.

That's another reason why I homeschool. My kids love American History. The real history, not the revisionist crap they are teaching in schools today.

[Cultural Jihad]

You can thank the baby-boomer generation which embraced aristocratic morals and moral-liberalism for the changes in our society. The lawyers and bureaucrats are just filling the void left by the baby-boomer shirkers of personal responsibility.

[theFIRMbss]

>According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived [1/17/2004]

Is this some new kind
of spam? We get the same crap
every so often --

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's, probably shouldn't have survived [Email from a friend | 3/27/2003 | ?????]

[crz]

We never even considered wearing a pair of shoes in the summertime. We never even entered the house till dark unless it was for the toilet or FOOD. Our clothes had holes and patches on them...real designer clothes nowdays. We played hardball with taped up used baseballs and bats. We played ragtag..shinty with tree crotches and that old taped up hardball. We took our old beat up bycs and peddled 5 miles to the nearest lake to go swimming. ALL local family (aunts, uncles etc)got together at each birthday, Thanksgiving and one day around Christmas time.

We raised our own food and sold what we didnt need...man I hated picking beans.

That was then..when there was but one TV station available and it didnt come in half the time. What would happen if that was the case now? We were money poor and happy beyond belief. Your only as poor as you think you are.

[BSunday]

That would be awesome to have a creek on my property, instead of living here in Cement City as Mrs. Sunday calls it. And yes my kids have been guilty on occasion of playing with fireplace pokers, too.

[B4Ranch]

"We didn't date too much longer."

Saved yourself many years of certain grief!

[genefromjersey]

There are apparently a few Freepers who subscribe whole-heartedly to that idea...only they want it to be people who are receiving social security,pensions,and post-retirement medical benefits (all of which they paid into).

Methinks,what these latter-day Cassius clones-with their lean and hungry look-are saying is: " MINE ! MINE ! MINE !!"

[JesseHousman]

Seems like there weren't so many predators.

Today they feast their eyes and gorge their minds on the endless supply of pornography that has permeated our society.

Every town and city has "Adult" stores where videos, magazines and sex toys are available hetero and homosexuals. When these sickies want to have sex with someone other than themselves they go for our children.

There's a lot of things that must be done in this nation before it can be restored to that freedom of bygone days. One thing that has to be done is to take a cleaver to the bloated monster known as the central government and chop away until it is a thread.

[BSunday]

The old man and I would go shooting almost every Saturday

My dad and uncles would take us kids shooting whenever they got together. I was probably 9 or 10 when I shot my first 30 ought - 6. I wish there was somewhere that I could take my kids shooting out here in Norfolk. I think you have to be 16 to use a range with your parent, and I would love to introduce my 9 and 13 year olds to the world of real firearms.

[JesseHousman]

Your #29 should be woven into the article.

[BSunday]

filling the void left by the baby-boomer shirkers of personal responsibility.

(gasp) I thought they were the "greatest generation" (/sarcasm)

[BSunday]

We also played "smear the queer" and "butts up"

[cjshapi]

I think you played with too many rusty cans when you were a kid. Did something funny to yer noggin!

[Mo1]

I guess that's way I love to watch the black and white old movies. I need a kleenex..sniff! YEP, THEM WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS.

You got that right!!