For Those Born 1930-1979
10-10-2006, 09:14 AM
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For Those Born 1930-1979 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 were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs 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 infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, 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 kool-ade made with sugar, 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 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or 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 ***** 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!
These generations have 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!
If 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 so much of our lives
FOR OUR OWN GOOD
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
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 were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs 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 infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, 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 kool-ade made with sugar, 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 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or 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 ***** 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!
These generations have 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!
If 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 so much of our lives
FOR OUR OWN GOOD
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
10-10-2006, 09:39 AM
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Hell Yeah!
i wasn't born then but i had the same lifestyle i stayed outside all the time as a kid! me and my friends were always playing pick up games of football or baseball every summerday!
i wasn't born then but i had the same lifestyle i stayed outside all the time as a kid! me and my friends were always playing pick up games of football or baseball every summerday!
lol j/k 
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10-10-2006, 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Tony Shepherd
I am on the list and that is sooooooooooooooooooo true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can remember riding behind my dad's seat, in the El Camino, sitting on 'the hump'. There was no real seat at all. No seatbelt at all. No padding. Just a carpeted hump. And I lived to tell about it.
10-10-2006, 01:27 PM
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Oh yeah, climbing around in the back of Mom's station wagon, or when I was really little, curled up behind the seats of Dad's Corvette was quite acceptable. Seatbelts? Those were installed in cars back then? Nobody ever wore 'em, and hardly anyone died.
10-10-2006, 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Camaroholic
Hey, ya pup, you're just barely on the list.
I can remember riding behind my dad's seat, in the El Camino, sitting on 'the hump'. There was no real seat at all. No seatbelt at all. No padding. Just a carpeted hump. And I lived to tell about it.
I can remember riding behind my dad's seat, in the El Camino, sitting on 'the hump'. There was no real seat at all. No seatbelt at all. No padding. Just a carpeted hump. And I lived to tell about it.
Yea....born in 77. El Camino huh? I hated those things!!
Ok gramps
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I'm in this range and remember when my inventive father decided to take us on a family trip from tx to nm to az to col to ok back to tx. In a 19?? canary yellow Nova coupe. To fit all SIX of us he took out the back seat and laid down blankets over the transmission bumb, it does get a lil tosty. I was so pissed that I made room for myself in the trunk, Head First, and they let me do it! I was lucky we never got rearended, as I stayed in that spot for the entire trip. He made us go #1 in the car, with the whole family in there, he wouldnent stop for nothing.... If I were smater I would have said #2...LOL...