toslane1
Regular member
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: the L.B.C.
Posts: 462
Here's To US!!!!
No
Matter what our kids, and the new generation think about
Us ..
WE
ARE AWESOME !!!!
OUR
LIFE IS LIVING PROOF !!!!
To
Those of Us
Born
1930
- 1979
At
The end of this email is a quote of the month
By Jay Leno. If you don't read
Anything else, please
Read what he said.
(Very well stated, Mr. Leno).
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-based
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
OKAY.
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 Play stations, 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
Would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping
Pong paddles, or just a bare hand, and no one would call
Child services to report abuse.
We
Ate worms and mud pies
Made
From dirt, and
The
Worms did not live in us forever.
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 very many 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 thunderstorms tearing up the country
from one end to another, and with the threat
of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure
this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge
of Allegiance?'
For
those that prefer to think that God is not watching over
us ... go ahead and delete this.
For
the rest of us ... pass this on.
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