People over 25 should be dead.
To the survivors:
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats,
those of us who were
kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 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 seat
belts 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 shared one soft drink with four friends, from
one bottle, and no one
actually died from this.
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 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 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 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 fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones
and teeth,and there were
no lawsuits from these accidents.
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.
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.
To the survivors:
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats,
those of us who were
kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 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 seat
belts 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 shared one soft drink with four friends, from
one bottle, and no one
actually died from this.
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 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 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 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 fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones
and teeth,and there were
no lawsuits from these accidents.
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.
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.
Mickey76
