CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE CHILDREN WHO SURVIVED THE 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!

[spleify]

I know this has been around for a while and I'm sure most of us have seen in in an email or two, but I thought I would post it up again!

CONGRATULATIONS IF YOU WERE BORN IN 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
carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't
get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured
lead-based paints.

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 seat belts or air bags.

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 cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it,
but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

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 O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride 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 Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all,
no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound,no cell
phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet 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 ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us
forever.

We 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 yelled for them!

Football teams had trials 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!

This generation has 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! And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

[sneakerd]

I was 10 years old in '69, I did all of that stuff- not to mention rockfights in and around houses under construction. Still have scars from the stitches!

[spleify]

I was 10 years old in '69, I did all of that stuff- not to mention rockfights in and around houses under construction. Still have scars from the stitches!

Yep, and when we got those BB guns we had BB gun wars......man that was awesome.

[alxone]

I was 10 years old in 1869, I did all of that stuff- not to mention rockfights in and around houses under construction. Still have scars from the stitches!

fixed it for ya

great post spleify

[Mtn.man]

BB gun fights, M-80's, riding in the back of P/U trucks, fist fights at school no expulsion or arrest, took our shotguns to school so we wouldn't miss bird hunting on the way home, could whistle at a girl or tell em they were pretty without arrest, and being labled a sex offender, lived through race riots, stole beer form beer trucks, cops caught ya made you pour it out and the threat of telling your parents, same with street racing, etc etc...

[airborneranger]

We had bb gun fights until a friend got an eye shot out - seriously! I wish we had ballistic eyewear back then.

[StagLefty]

BB gun fights, M-80's, riding in the back of P/U trucks, fist fights at school no expulsion or arrest, took our shotguns to school so we wouldn't miss bird hunting on the way home, could whistle at a girl or tell em they were pretty without arrest, and being labled a sex offender, lived through race riots, stole beer form beer trucks, cops caught ya made you pour it out and the threat of telling your parents, same with street racing, etc etc...

Ditto !!!!

[sneakerd]

I also almost always had a gun magazine with me..... wonder how that would work today?

[alxone]

i dont think kids even climb a rope in gym anymore

[Chad4000]

it's that generation that raised this one... lol

but seriously though, I was born in 81, so I guess I'm a 90s kid. and we still had dodge ball, I didnt make the team the first time I tried to get running back on the hawks, etc.. none of that is true now but I dont think it's that far removed.... heres hoping anyway....