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capitalcitycars
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Here's something going around the net:
Philosophical reading that someone passed onto me which could explain how
our old gang may have all got this far, some only just!!.
------------------------------------------------------------
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 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 coloured 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 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 sticky cakes, white bread and real butter and
drank fizzy 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
street lights 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 pellet guns for our 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and
although we were told it would happen,
we did not poke 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!
Local Football teams 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 kids, before 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?!
Philosophical reading that someone passed onto me which could explain how
our old gang may have all got this far, some only just!!.
------------------------------------------------------------
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 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 coloured 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 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 sticky cakes, white bread and real butter and
drank fizzy 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
street lights 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 pellet guns for our 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and
although we were told it would happen,
we did not poke 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!
Local Football teams 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 kids, before 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?!
