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Family Ties Forever! · 05-13-2005, 04:57 PM

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Mr. Television · 05-13-2005, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Jen1978

This was in an e-mail:

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 colored
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 cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda 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 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 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 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.

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.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?

A lot of that is very true.

Sterling Holobyte · 05-13-2005, 05:09 PM

That was really good! Thanks for posting it!

I actually feel sorry for kids nowadays.

Courtnee · 05-13-2005, 05:20 PM

Thats cool

Max Whittaker · 05-13-2005, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Sterling Holobyte

I actually feel sorry for kids nowadays.

Yes, I feel sorry for even myself! Makes me nostalgic for something I never had!

I'll just tell myself that those decades had problems as well. Though it's never worked before...

Czas na Zywiec · 05-13-2005, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Sterling Holobyte

That was really good! Thanks for posting it!

I actually feel sorry for kids nowadays.

Heh, you don't have to feel sorry for me. I loved being born in the middle of the 80s and living my childhood through the 90s. I wouldn't have it any other way!

PZelda · 05-13-2005, 06:07 PM

The water-hose thing applies to kids of the 80's, too. I was born in 1985 and my sibs and I all drank water from the hose in the summertime. Good stuff!

We did the pickup truck thing...Sometimes we had multiple people in the bed with me. That was so much fun. I haven't done that in at least 13 years.

Czas na Zywiec · 05-13-2005, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by PZelda

We did the pickup truck thing...Sometimes we had multiple people in the bed with me. That was so much fun. I haven't done that in at least 13 years.

Woah....I could have lived without knowing that.

Hollow · 05-13-2005, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by PZelda

We did the pickup truck thing...Sometimes we had multiple people in the bed with me. That was so much fun. I haven't done that in at least 13 years.

it's been about 30 minutes for me. *nostalgic*

PZelda · 05-13-2005, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Czas na Zywiec

Woah....I could have lived without knowing that.

THEY WERE IN THE BED WITH ME AND I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THE EXPERIENCE!

Sterling Holobyte · 05-13-2005, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Czas na Zywiec

Heh, you don't have to feel sorry for me.

Ok, no feeling sorry for you. Check.

TheGreatPretender · 05-13-2005, 07:20 PM

being born in 1990 sucks. -_-

Penny Lane · 05-13-2005, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Nighthawk

A lot of that is very true.

All of it is true! And I am here(born in 1950) to prove it!

Penny Lane · 05-13-2005, 07:40 PM

Concening the child proof medicine thing....................

When
I was about 3 or 4 I remember getting into the chocolate E-Lax in the medicine cabinet.I broke out in a rash and had the runs the next day!

Child proof caps are good.................Yup!

robyrob · 05-13-2005, 08:40 PM

man I did all of that AND: rode my Bigwheel on the highway, drank paint thinner, changed the channel on my TV with a pair of vice grips, made prank phone calls without fear that we'd ever get caught, snapped bra straps without being called in for sexual harassment awareness counselling....

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Penny Lane Butter Pie Forum Icon Join Date: Jul 03, 2001 Location: Beneath the blue suburban skies Posts: 51,082	Concening the child proof medicine thing.................... When I was about 3 or 4 I remember getting into the chocolate E-Lax in the medicine cabinet.I broke out in a rash and had the runs the next day! Child proof caps are good.................Yup!