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Floridaboiler
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Joined: 18 May 2002
Posts: 11322
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
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 Posted: 04/20/05 - 20:07 Post subject: TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED
the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's & 70's !
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/
or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
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 seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was
always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE
actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes,
bread and butter and
drank soda pop with sugar in it,
but
we weren't overweight because
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day,
as long as we were back
when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day.
And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps
and then ride 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 did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes,
no video games at all,
no 99 channels on cable,
no video tape movies,
no surround sound,
no cell phones, no personal computers,
no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........
WE HAD FRIENDS and
we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut,
broke bones and teeth and there were
no lawsuits from these accidents.
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 in us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house
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.
Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law
was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best
risk-takers, 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 are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who
have had the luck to grow up as kids,
before
the lawyers and the government regulated our lives
for our own good.
Kind of makes you want to
run through the house with scissors,
doesn't it?!
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Good stuff.
