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 !
I am already dead. My progeny has turned to crap, and there's nothing any of us can do about it.
They are right. I died 30 years ago.
so true. Do you ever stop to think how this should have culled the herd, so to speak?
Cool post!
Thanks!
I had BB gun fights with my friends (we actually shot them at each other), today that would get me on some list as a potential school shooter.
Not only did we not wear seat belts, there was no such thing as a baby seat.
We ate all sorts of disgusting foods with wierd dyes.
If any kid ever rode on a bike with a helmet, he would have been the butt of jokes for years.
When I was two, I stuck a hairpin in an electric socket that didn't have a childproof cap on it. I'm dead.
Yeah...we could go down to the local schoolyard and choose up sides to play sandlot baseball..It didn't have to be organized..If we disobeyed our parents, there was hell to pay....If we smarted off to teachers in schools, we got our behinds paddled by the principal...When we were told to be in at nine o'clock..it had better be nine o'clock...Of course, we watched shows like "Leave It to Beaver" where the father was in charge and wasn't a dummy..Boy, how times have changed!!!!
"You won't catch me goin' around dying. Have to kill me before I die."
We ran with scissors & played with fire.
I did the hairpin in socket trick too...LOL!
OK, captain. Let's hear your stories.
Maybe. I go to the Doc on Thursday, I'll let you know.
All the kids in our neighborhood used to come out after dark & play flashlight tag. Or how about "Smear the Queer"....we couldn't play that today...the name is a hate crime.
My pals and I accepted candy bars from the nice old man next door,and they weren't tainted and he didn't try to molest us!
How about chased the mosquito sprayer on our bikes! LOL
Obviously, you didn't live next to the White House in the '90s.
Good Lord! I've been dead since 1949 and never knew it till now.......
I had forgotten about "smear the queer", you would be expelled from school for saying that today. Another huge difference is the fact that things we had to beg and in some cases coerce girls into doing when we were teenagers, these girls are now being taught to do in third grade and told that "experimentation" is fun.
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