Posted on 06/08/2004 2:03:27 PM PDT by al baby
People over 35 should be dead.
Here's why ...
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.
Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, ... and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.)
As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
Horrors! We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.
After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day.
NO CELL PHONES!!!!!
Unthinkable!
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.
We had friends!
We went outside and found them.
We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
They were accidents.
No one was to blame but us.
Remember accidents?
We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.
Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.
Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade.
Horrors!
Tests were not adjusted for any reason.
Our actions were our own.
Consequences were expected.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law.
Imagine that!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever.
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
And you're one of them!
Congratulations!
Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good !!!!!
People under 30 are WIMPS !
LOL!
We put lighted M-80's in glass bottles and threw them at each other.
Don't include me (25) as part of this "sissy culture." If everyone under the age of 30 are wimps, then that would mean the "sissy culture" began about the time Reagan took over. More likely, it is the kids who are still, well, kids, who are so effected.
When I was two, I stuck a hairpin in an electric socket that didn't have a childproof cap on it. I'm dead
Learned pretty quick not to do that again didn't you ?
Don't use a butter knife either .
DDT killed me. Carried .22 rifle in my pickup in plain sight at high school. Had an 8-track tape player and got the soundtrack from Wild in the Streets for free somewhere.I had the soundtrack for a year before I saw the movie. Of course the Best movies were Easy Rider and Clint Eastwood Man With NoName movies.
And none of this "put on ground, light fuse, get away" stuff either. Simultaneous detonations, inventions to get the most out of your allotment, etc.
Can still count to ten on my hands, can count clear to twenty one if I look down.
And tether ball?
And going down to the local school playground in summer and painting those little white chalky figurines with paint and Nehi Cream soda and Sunday spend with family cause no stores were open and buck night at the drive-in
Those were the days........I feel sorry for kids now days.....no innocence
We had one - an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser. Many family vacations taken in it!
Burning ants with a magnifying glass. Learned decent hand-eye coordination with that!
LOL! I once got nailed square in the face with a huge dirt clod thrown by an older kid. There was blood and dirt everywhere.
It was wonderful. :)
We were actually playing playing RUGBY and didn't know it!
Bottle rocket fights!
OMGosh, you should have heard the comments in the lunch room and in the letter to editor's section. "The picture humiliated the bear." "It was insensitive like the prison events" "It was SOOOOO dangerous" "The Game & Wildlike Department does NOT condone these actions."
It's a wonder we ever settled this country. Those scared rabbits never would have left their parents' homes! It was sad, pathetic, and ugly - all rolled into one.
"Obviously, you didn't live next to the White House in the '90s"
I said "nice" old man.. not letch! hehe
"Our favorite stop on Halloween was the house that had home made doughnuts and candy"
Oh don't get me started on everything that's gone wrong with Halloween since I was a kid! I especially hate the teenagers and/or moms who expect candy and don't bother to dress up!
A lot has changed.
Thank you. I remember those days. I also remember no child was drugged.
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Yes..thanks...bless you...
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