Here’s to US!!!!
No matter what our kids and the new
generation think about us, WE ARE
AWESOME!
OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF!
To Those of
Us Born 1930 – 1979
At the end of this post is a quote of the
month by Jay Leno. If you don’t read
anything else, please read what he said.
Very well stated, Mr. Leno.
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED
THE1930′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-base
paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine
bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and
when we rode our bikes, we had
baseball caps not helmets on our heads.
As infants & children, we would ride in
cars with no car seats, no booster seats,
no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and
sometimes no brakes.
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.
We shared one soft drink with four
friends, from one bottle and no one
actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread, real
butter and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid
made with real white sugar. And, we
weren’t overweight. WHY?
Because we were always outside
playing…that’s why!
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 OKAY.
We would spend hours building our
go-carts out of scraps and then ride
them 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 Play stations,
Nintendo’s and X-boxes. There were no
video games, 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 and no 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 would get spankings with wooden
spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, or
just a bare hand and no one would call
child services to report abuse.
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!
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.
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 swine flu and terrorist attacks,
are we sure this is a good time to take
God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?’
For those that prefer to think that God is
not watching over us…go ahead and
ignore this.
For the rest of us…pass this on.
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