In a message dated Sun, 8 Dec 2002 11:20:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, DSO6213 writes:
> This is so true!!! We did survive. > > > If you lived as a child in the 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's how did you survive? > > Looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have... > > As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in > the > back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat. > > 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 hitchhiking to town as a young > kid!) > > We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors. > > 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 streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. No cell > phones. Unthinkable. > > > > We played dodgeball and sometimes the ball would really hurt. We got cut > and > broke bones and broke 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 ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda but we were never > overweight... we were always outside playing. We shared one grape soda with > four > friends, from one bottle and no one died from this. > > We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, video games at all, 99 > channels on cable,video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, > Personal Computers, Internet chat rooms ... we had friends. We went outside > and > found them. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the > door, > or rung the bell or just walked in and talked to them. > > Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves! Out there in > the > cold cruel world! Without a guardian. How did we do 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. > > 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. No one to hide behind. > 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 has 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. ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
