Here is to us !!!!!!!!!!

[fawn]

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

Cheers



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-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 pick- up 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 O.K.

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 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 r isk-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 bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a
good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'

[Fingers]

This is so true, Fawn!

I was born in the 60's & never heard of anyone having an allergy to anything other than pollen when I was growing up. Spent my first 16 years outside all the time, doing quite a lot of stuff which was prolly pretty dangerous, but was FUN . I've 2 kids (just about grown up now) and tried to get them out of the house as much as I could, but it's not like when I was a kid. They have PCs & mobile phones and like to sit on their asses & chat by typing (a bit like this - oops!)

Only thing I regret is that I went to a senile old doc who prescribed antibiotics every time my slightly paranoid mother took me to see him with a runny nose. Poor old sod prolly didn't understand what antibiotics really were for or how they worked. He must have been 70 in the 60's!

I am munching on a high-fat sandwich and drinking alcohol as I type. Will report back in about 80 years if there are any adverse effects...

[No_way]

Yes, we are awesome !!!!

[fawn]

Originally Posted by No_way

Yes, we are awesome !!!!

We Rock
Fawn

[No_way]

And the best part of it is that we grew up when all the real music was made. I started buying records in the beginning of the 70s. First album was Black Sabbath. Then Alice Cooper. And the records kept coming every week for many years.... All those bands... All that music.... Poor kids growing up today
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on...

[fawn]

Originally Posted by No_way

And the best part of it is that we grew up when all the real music was made. I started buying records in the beginning of the 70s. First album was Black Sabbath. Then Alice Cooper. And the records kept coming every week for many years.... All those bands... All that music.... Poor kids growing up today
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on...

Boy U Hit a Note. The Music. I cant stand what’s coming out 2day. I had all of Alice Copper Albums. Billion Dollar Babies . Boy The Vinyl Days. I saw yes, led zep,zapper,minstry,van halen ,benitar ,acdc,stiX , so many more. God , What happen to the good old day

[fawn]

Originally Posted by Fingers

This is so true, Fawn!

I was born in the 60's & never heard of anyone having an allergy to anything other than pollen when I was growing up. Spent my first 16 years outside all the time, doing quite a lot of stuff which was prolly pretty dangerous, but was FUN . I've 2 kids (just about grown up now) and tried to get them out of the house as much as I could, but it's not like when I was a kid. They have PCs & mobile phones and like to sit on their asses & chat by typing (a bit like this - oops!)

Only thing I regret is that I went to a senile old doc who prescribed antibiotics every time my slightly paranoid mother took me to see him with a runny nose. Poor old sod prolly didn't understand what antibiotics really were for or how they worked. He must have been 70 in the 60's!

I am munching on a high-fat sandwich and drinking alcohol as I type. Will report back in about 80 years if there are any adverse effects...

Yah , The kidz 2day have no idea what playing outside mean. To many computers. very little respect.
I thumbed all over the United States when I was 13. Can even walk down the street after dark now.
Fawn

[Fingers]

Originally Posted by fawn

Boy U Hit a Note. The Music. I cant stand what’s coming out 2day. I had all of Alice Copper Albums. Billion Dollar Babies . Boy The Vinyl Days. I saw yes, led zep,zapper,minstry,van halen ,benitar ,acdc,stiX , so many more. God , What happen to the good old day

There are still a lot of bands around with great energy, lyrics & melodies, if you look. At the moment I'm really in to the US Punk/Rock scene for some reason... Stuff like NoFX, Scars, Alkaline Trio, GreenDay etc.

Maybe in my second childhood - I've even started to play guitar

[eclipse245]

My dad was born in Communist Poland...and his mom (my grandmother) didn't do anything dumb.

She survived Siberia when she was 5. her house is amazing, it's an old Russian house with like crazy antiques!

[CaffeineCrave]

Haha, this is pretty funny. My parents raised me the way they were raised, so I have experienced a lot of these myself. But one thing, about the kids now-a-days. Don't you people talk to any of the cool kids? (lol) Not the ones that have subjected themselves to fad after fad and think that Rap is the coolest thing ever.

I don't think that technology is to blame... I think it is all the legal drugs we pump into the kids, and the fact that society as a whole has gone down hill. I mean, when did cussing start becoming a tragic ear raping thing that will scar children for life? The average child will learn a whole variety of new and old curse words in school anyways. But yet a parent will freak the f out if they see a cuss word on a sign, even going to the extent of sueing the people who put it up for supposidy ruining their child or some "crud". Why is it that we so scared about nudity on tv? When did a police officers life become more important than a citizens? I don't get it myself, but it is your generation running the show right now, and we are just now starting to take over. So maybe you will be able to enlighten me.


You old farts need to get out more.. I think you have become the things that you seem to think the kids are today. J/k, or am I? lol, for you to decide.
Haha, I'm probably really hated now.. oh well.