You survived?

catocom

catocom

Well-Known Member
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED 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 children, 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 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!


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

kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.


and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were!
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Professur

Professur

Well-Known Member
Yes, but look around you at what survived. For the most part, I'm convinced that brain damage is the population norm now.
 
Luis G

Luis G

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Staff member
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 our lives for our own good.


and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were!
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Congratulations to those kids who are now ruling the world and making a crap out of it. Put stupid warning labels on products, are not at home watching their kids and feeds them crap.

Ohhh did I forgot to mention that those are also the succesful lawyers screwing everything??

;)
 
Gato_Solo

Gato_Solo

Out-freaking-standing OTC member
Luis G said:
Congratulations to those kids who are now ruling the world and making a crap out of it. Put stupid warning labels on products, are not at home watching their kids and feeds them crap.

Ohhh did I forgot to mention that those are also the succesful lawyers screwing everything??

;)
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Unfortunately, it ain't us. It's the ones who were already adult (or nearly so) in the late 1960's who are to blame for todays problems. The ones who fled the US during the Vietnam era, mixed in with the ones who had 'mummy and daddy' buy them out of the draft that are screwing up the world. They became the lawyers, who in turn became the judges and politicians.
 
K62

K62

New Member
Hey man, I was born in 1985..

I never had a computer growing up,
I spent all my time outside in the woods, with my friends.
We fired marbles with a slingshot at birds (and one of my friends took out a car windshield) that was much more powerful than any sling shot.
When we weren't in the woods, we were playing sports.
I fell out of a tree more than once.
I spend my summers up in a trailer park on the water, outside all day.
I can remember making things out of lead solder I took out of dads tool box because it was easy to bend. I never knew it was poison.
As hard as dad tried to hide all the parts to his .22 around the house, I knew where every part was, and how to put it together.
I have never been fat.

I am really surprised that I lived past 12 years =]
 
K62

K62

New Member
Professur said:
How did they keep them afloat?
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haha

Alright.

A trailer park NEXT or the water.

Hmm, speaking of trailer parks, I heard that bubbles took the big one. Any truth behind that? I sure hope not :(
 
K62

K62

New Member
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