It was a great time to live,
this will make your day. It might just bring back a few memories.
I Absolutely "AGREE" It
also gave most of us CONFIDENCE in ourselves and most went on to enjoy a
profession we LIKED Or Became Entrepreneurs or did Very Well at any JOB
we decided to take ...
"IT WAS
WONDERFUL"
Oh, this is all so
true!!
No matter what our kids and
the new generation think about us, WE
WERE AWESOME !!! OUR Lives are LIVING PROOF
!!!
To Those of Us Born
1925 - 1970 :
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
1930s, '40s, '50s, '60s and
'70s!!
First, we survived being born to
mothers who may have 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 and 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,
Nintendos and X-boxes. There were
no video games, no 150 channels
on cable, no video movies or DVDs, no
surround-sound or CDs,
no cell phones, n o
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 those 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 to 85 years have seen
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 those born
between 1925-1970,
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
by
Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornadoes , 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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