Oldie but goodie

[willy]

> > TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
> >
> > 1930's 40's, 50's, 60'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 child proof 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 yelled 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 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.
> >
> >
> > Kind of makes you want to run through the house
> with scissors, doesn't
> it?!

[willy]

My sister sent this to me, have not seen it for a long time.
This was ME, and my seven other brothers and sisters growing up and I bet it's a large majority of you other V20'er's too. It kind of fits with the boat you know. Feels good to see it again thought you guys would enjoy ;)

[chumbucket]

Yeah, but some of those first thoughts might explain a few things where MJ is concerned. :o You know, like the lead paint thing and all. :-X

[willy]

I see :o but I'll tell ya CB, going down that list it was literally like reliving my childhood, just one of those things I guess ;)

[phester]

Yes, a real stroll down memory lane for me too....

[reelapeelin]

Yeah Willy...that was nice...I remember Windy Hill Beach and bein' SUNBURNED and gettin' a little sand in the bed in the old non-air-conditioned cottage...slept like a rock.... ;D ;D ;D...

[willy]

I remember climbing trees that were so big around we measured them by how many of us holding hands it took to cover it. I remember being on a death watch when Doug Bresky stepped on an old rotted one and fell thirty feet and landed flat on his back, we were in the middle of the woods and sitting around him waiting for him to wake up :o. When he did we told him he had died and came back like Jesus and he went home and told his mother. She promptly kicked his a$$ for climbing that high in the tree :D

[reelapeelin]

I remember ridin' to Homestead, FL in my aunt's old Dodge...me and my cousin sittin' on back seat, smoke starts comin' outta the seat behind him...pull over, put it out, I get a butt-whuppin' right there on the side of the road cause I had my window down that my aunt's cigarette came into after SHE flipped it out the front window... :o...folks, sometimes life just ain't right!!... ::)...

Think that happened around Sebastian or there abouts... ;)...

[willy]

I remember using old brass or copper pipe to make itchy ball (gum ball) and acorn cannons, flattened and folded one end, punched a hole with a nail that a firecracker would slide down into and load like a cannon. Would set up in the woods like Viet Cong ambushing any of the neighborhood guys that would come by. Today we would be arrested and prosecuted for assault with a deadly weapon or attempted murder and expelled from school and the major discussion on the local radio and tv stations :-/

[macojoe]

yea and that was the time that left people like CB in the closet, Darn I wish he was still in it!!