It ain't right!"
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 !
We thought they were flashlights, right?
I remember that one,too! LOL here! All the things we did wrong by today's standards, look how we turned out. RIGHT THINKERS!
My sisters and I should have died long ago from breaking thermometers and playing with the mercury....
It ain't right!"
So true!
My sister and I would sit in the backseat of the family station wagon, Indian style but with our backs facing front and try not to fall off the seat when mom or dad used the breaks. It sounds silly now but I know we absolutely loved doing that. We both must have suffered brain damage and died.
And if you got in trouble in school or got a bad grade, you also got in trouble at home. Even if it wasn't your fault.
LOL! nope!
I have not seen that in years. You bring back fond memories of the the wooden windows with "hold-up-stick". Nowadays we have Ozone alerts, vinyl windows and A/C running 24 hours a day.
That meant you were cool
Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
"dirt clod fight."
Oh my gosh! We use to have dirt clod fights too. They were absolutely great fun. Thanks for reminding me.
We used to jump on our bikes and chase off in the cloud of pesticide fog being sprayed by the city. Yup, I'm dead.
My sister swallowed 10 nickels while practicing her first communion. She's dead, too.
omg! Wasn't that fun!? Smearing it on a dime to make it shinier.
OMG! LOL
"I remember that too! Snorting pure DDT! I don't think a mosquito has survived biting me since."
Its been 30 years since I did that. What a great memory.
(Except we called 'em dirt CLOBS, because that's the way one of my buddies pronounced it!) Too funny!
OK, here's one. Anybody else do this?
When city workers would lay fresh tar on street cracks, us kids would take sharpened popsicle sticks and scrape up some of this still slightly warm goo and chew it. It was sort of like poor mans Blackjack gum. We were told by our parents that the tar would also clean your teeth.
Well, she is a blonde.
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