The good old days....

[redneckgirl]

Just got this email from a friend... thought I would share it.
Hi, Everyone! Enjoy the memories this brings!
> > People over 35 should be dead. Here's why. According to today's
> > regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 1940s,
> > 1950s, 60s, or even maybe the early 1970s 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 seatbelts 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 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 shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no
> > one
> > actually died from this.
> >
> > 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 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 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 played dodge
> > ball,
> > and sometimes, the ball would really hurt. We fell out of trees, got
> > cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these
> > accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember
> > accidents?
> >
> > We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and
> > learned
> > to get over it.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and
> > were held back to repeat the same grade. Horrors! Tests were not
> > adjusted for any reason.
> >
> > Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. 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!
> >
> > Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as
> > kids,
> > before lawyers and government regulated our lives for our own good!
> >
> > People under 30 are WIMPS!
RNG

[mikev]

so true

[24ROD]

I love it!

[hoolign]

worms....you ate worms?????:yuk:
so bloody true!!!
actually it's anyone under 36 ..that is concidered a wimp!