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Posted on 05/31/2013 6:21:29 AM PDT by IbJensen
To: Those of You Born 1930 - 1979
At the end is a quote of the month attributed to Jay Leno.. If you don't read anything else, Please read what he Said.
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode Our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.
Riding in the back of a pick-up truck 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, white bread, real butter and bacon..
We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar.
And, we weren't overweight.
WHY?
Because we were always outside playing...that's why!
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 them 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 and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no 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 were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out our eyes.
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!
These generations have 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.
If 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 so much of our lives for our own good .
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?
The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thund erstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of swine flu and terrorist attacks. Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
A Small Prayer!
God determines who walks into your life.....it's up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go.
When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is all you need. Take 60 seconds and give this a shot! All you do is simply say the following small prayer:
Father,
God bless my friend in whatever it is that You know they may need this day!
And may their life be full of your peace, prosperity, and power
as he/she seeks to have a closer relationship with you.
Amen.
IN GOD WE TRUST
Good one, tho I much prefer telescopic to reflex sights.
Great profile!
Back when you called your best friends folks Mr and Mrs
Born in America (California) in 1946, I’ve truly lived in the greatest country and the greatest era it has known. I’ll never be able to explain what freedom was like to my grand kids.
It was priced at $24 and I struggled with the dilemma to buy it or not.
In the end I figured I had no good use for it except for nostalgia...so I passed on it. But it was a very cool thing. Near mint condition too.
Thanks. That email pretty well nails it.
My go-cart had an old lawn mower engine (no brakes).
Great article....but I got my first bb gun when I was six, and I didn’t put my eye out.
God has been replaced by government now, and the results were totally predictable.
And rode minibikes with lawnmower engines and no helmet! Got spanked with a leather belt when we needed it!
Thanks
This brought back a lot of memories.
You sure this from Leno? This seems another one of those emails that when checked out, finds he did not send it out, someone else did.
I am friends with someone who got his eye shot out with a bb gun. I still have scars in my shoulder and back from my idiot friends who broke the “3 pump” rule !
He should feel honored if he didn’t say it.
Of course in that era people with those tendencies were mysteriously sent away to institutions. Morals were as such that no respectable family would risk bearing the shame of deviant behavior amongst one of their own.
If I were to pass this on, I'd delete all references to Jay Leno. The celebs referenced in these types of emails almost never say what is attributed to them. If you ever see an email with good, conservative wisdom from Robin Williams or Andy Rooney, it's always bogus. Doesn't mean the email isn't good. Just ignore the attribution to the celeb.
You sound like me. I was (am) a tomboy through and through.
I have seen several emails that were suppose to be from Leno and when checked out were not. But, I agree. But he is a lib so I guess not.
I grew up in Southern California. We’d have blazing summers, with playgrounds that were tiny and full of metal structures, old tractor tires, and concrete in awkward places. Not that the sand was much better, for most of the year it was just as hard as the concrete.
I look at playgrounds today with hundreds of thousands spent on wheelchair ramps, rubber mats, plastic coated structures, and even roofs. Gone are swings and jungle gyms, what is left are boring slow slides, plastic tic-tac-toe games and if you’re really lucky, a climbing wall that extends all of three feet up.
Great for the under 5 set, but I can’t count the number of times I’ve gone past on the running course and seen a seven or eight year old bored with the playground and instead sitting there with an iPad.
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