Re: Tire Skids and Teeth Marks

[Humble tiger]

I was a '70's child and I can relate to alot of these memories......I don't think we had an answering machine until the '90's :)

Erica

<<<Subject: WE WERE LUCKY KIDS

You lived as a child in the 50s or the 60s or earlier.
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 law suits 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 cellular 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.

Before lawyers and government began to regulate our lives,
for our own good.(?)>>>

Forgive me if it's outta place here.
WtS


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