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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WHO 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 colored 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 , we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up 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 and real butter and drank soda 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 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 yelled for them!(I remember yelling in the gangway for 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! 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! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as , before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. And, while you are at it, forward it to your so they will know how brave their parents were. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?! PS -The big type is because our eyes are shot at our age. ___________ Find the humor each day holds.... Gina |
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Yep, we survived. I chopped wood at a friends cabin, primed a pump with root beer, swallowed a hairpin to see what would happen, ran into a police car on my bike at age 7. And I am still here to tell the tale. Congrats to ME. Absolutely.
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11/16/2006 9:40 am |
i sure made some yummy muds pies and tasted them also . lololol- all day playing outside get our lunch in bags take them on our bikes to woods play alllllllllllll day ohhhhhhhhhh what wonderful times. live laugh love ------ leslie
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11/16/2006 10:29 am |
And I remember It all so well Gina. Well most of it anyway LOL. Great fun filled innocent days.  
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11/16/2006 1:14 pm |
I have a theory that one of the reasons for the proliferation of diseases, allergies and some other medical conditions is because today's kids are growing up in a world that is obsessed with clean and sanitary... and so young people's immune systems are "lazy"... have not had any "germ drills"... and can't recognize some/many of the foreign bodies that they will be called upon to clobber.... Good posting... I agree that we sure endured what parents today (our kids) would say was an unsafe and dangerous world....
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11/16/2006 1:15 pm |
P.S. Don't BEGIN to believe that I am going to make a submittal mocking Dubya and his perception of what an "unsafe" world is.... Since then I would have to include a few words about what an idiot he is.... and some comments about how he has botched up the job of being President of the US of A.... Nope, not going there.......
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