And we had Lawn Darts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_darts
On 1/2/07, Erika L. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BORN BEFORE 1986? > > According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were > kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, > because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured Lead-based > paint which was promptly chewed and licked. > > We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or > cabinets and it was fine to play with pans. When we rode our bikes, we > wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our > wheels. > > As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags and > riding in the passenger seat was a treat. We drank water from the garden > hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same. > > We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar > in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside > playing. We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can > and no-one actually died from this. > > We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top > speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After > running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the > problem. > We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we > were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one > minded. > > We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 > channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile > phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chatrooms. > > We had friends - we went outside and found them. > > We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt! > > We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law > suits. > > We played knock-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners > catching us. > > We walked to friends' homes. > > We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or > daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner. > > We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in packs of > 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. The idea of a parent bailing us > out if we broke a law was unheard of...they actually sided with the law. > > 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 to you and others who have had the luck to grow as real > kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for "our own > good". > > And on the other side of the coin... > > The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986.... > > The Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. > > They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda > Carlisle. > > For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam. AIDS > has existed since they were born. CD's have existed since they were > born. > > Michael Jackson has always been white. > > To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't > imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance. > > They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are films from > last year. > > They can never imagine life before computers. > > They'll never have pretended to be the A-Team, the Dukes of Hazard or > the Famous Five. > > They can't believe a black and white television ever existed. > > And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a > mobile phone. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:223491 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
