Sally Leroy: America's greatest contribution has been to teach the world that getting old is such a drag. (Wild in the Streets - 1968 )
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 !
In the deep south, we'd rarely get snow, but when we did, my mom would make snow ice cream for us. A little sugar and vanilla added to a dish of snow, and we'd gobble it up.
We used to have chickens when I was growing up.
I would get my Daisy BB gun, get about 150' or so from the chickens, and pop them in the tail or body. Wouldn't hurt them too bad, but they would run. They finally got to where they would scatter for the four ends of the earth when they saw me, and I would have to quit for a while till they "forgot."
Made one mistake one time - hit a rooster in the neck - he flopped around for a while, and I thought my butt was dead (as well as his!). Didn't kill him though. He recovered, and my parents never found out. I quit after that.
Sally Leroy: America's greatest contribution has been to teach the world that getting old is such a drag. (Wild in the Streets - 1968 )
We used to also take the old smudgepots they used as flares near constuction and pretend they were bombs. Can you imagine - the horrors of an untended open flame!!
"Some station wagons had the back seat facing to the rear, remember those?"
Yes, I do remember them.
Beth
We used to ride our bikes behind buses in order to get great big whiffs of exhaust. It gave you a great buzz then you would try to knock the other person off their bike. Maybe that why so many Boomers are brain dead!!
Dad and I laugh about how he'd be arrested for that today.
As for my sister and me, how did we survive such brutal treatment? LOL
ARF! I used to do that too!
Grandpap, at different times, sucked welding fumes, asbestos, cigarette smoke, and gasoline fumes and rode in seatbeltless cars and home made off road vehicles (some with only 3 wheels). I think he's been dead for at least 65 years. I'll have to email this to him :-)
hehehe
Hey, I did that!
It was like riding in a cloud, and actually smelled kind of good.
DEAD?!?! Does that mean that they're going to switch my voter registration from Republican to Democrat??!!
Whoops sorry! My mistake.. Kerry is, according to the strict generational protocols set up by prior generations a Silent, but he bleeds like a Boomer.
I remember being a regular consumer of candy cigarettes and I even had a ball point pen that looked exactly like a cigarette so I could smoke even after the candy package was empty.
We had wrist rockets and sling shots. The police would give us fireworks for the fourth from what they took from the Chinatown gangs. They would then take us to the hospital after one of us got burned from the punk that lit the firework.
OPur parents would thank the policeman then belt us.
We had wrist rockets and sling shots. The police would give us fireworks for the fourth from what they took from the Chinatown gangs. They would then take us to the hospital after one of us got burned from the punk that lit the firework.
OPur parents would thank the policeman then belt us.
That's an idiotic suggestion! Now, everyone knows that those over 35 should be permanently institutionalized and drugged with heavy doses of narcotics and tranquilizers.
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