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| 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 streetlights 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, videotape 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 35 are wimps!
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| Ah, the good ole days! Good read Jack
Take care,
Jim O | |
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Location: Chicago IL. | Life was fun. I built one of those go carts with no brakes. Put 8 stiches in my noggen and made me sing on the other end of the choir for a few days. I would not change it for the world. I still drink from the hose in the yard in the summer.hehehe John Mannerino
Edited by john mannerino 1/28/2004 6:05 AM
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Location: Elgin, Illinois | John,
Those stitches didn't fix everything in that noggen that got busted... Something must have leaked before they got it closed up.... | |
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That was great Jack. Every single line! | |
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Location: Neenah, WI | Thank You Jack. I'm a grouchy 56 year old guy who can relate to all of that. The gene pool nowadays seems to be somewhat diluted. | |
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| I'm a few years under 35 and I can at least come up with a dozen stories that I count my lucky stars.
Unfortuantely, I'm a bit too young to remember the "good ole days", You know the days when a 50 hp motor was huge and that would push a small tug. or better yet an old row boat....yep, the "good ole days".
Or When a fiberglass rod was high tech for fishing rods. Yep, the "good ole days"  | |
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| I'm 32 and all that stuff you mention pretty much hits home. Some days I wish I was 10 again.What about trick or treating....didn't worry about junk in your candy and donig it until your bag was full,not 7:00pm
Bob
Edited by Moose 1/28/2004 11:23 AM
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Bottom line.
Me and my brother took care of ourselves when Dad was busy or working. Made our own breakfast, lunches and dinners most times when not in school. Made our own fun both inside and out. We were not spoiled and pampered but honestly loved by a man raising two boys by himself. Dad was both mother and father to us for 16 years. Where he went we went, always. We were trusted for the most part to do what we were asked to do, say and be where we said we'd be and when. We've become detached from our kids for the most part in todays world. I see very few comparisons to the way we had it and to the good man we had raising us.
Edited by walleye express 1/28/2004 4:07 PM
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People under 35 should be dead!