The way it was

[Rookie]

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s !!

First, some of us 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 beans 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 yelled for 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.

And while you are at it, send 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?!

PS -The big type is because your eyes are shot at your age

[Elsifer]

I never got a bb gun for my 10th bday!  :cry:

Nor a slingshot either, "It's too dangerous, you'll lose an eye!"

Which was always after I heard the "Eat, you too skinny, what you going to do when war comes?" from my grandmother.

[Jaguar]

I was born in the 80's.... we had Nintendo, 286 computers, Ninja Turtles, and I never developed a memory problem, and I never developed a memory problem, and I never developed a memory problem.

[BlackYJ]

I was born in the 80s as well and I TOTALLY agree with your post Rookie.  Our society these days is WAY TOO safety concerned and nobody is willing to accept responsibility for ANYTHING that might go wrong.  

I heard another good one the other day, teachers are discouraged from using red to mark, because it is TOO degrading for kids.

I better stop now

[FeatherFoot]

I was born in the 80s as well

Me too.  Jeez, that makes three of us from way back then!  :wink:

[BlackYJ]

I was born in the 80s as well

Me too.  Jeez, that makes three of us from way back then!  :wink:

Bob, I know you were born in the 80s, but don't forget to add the 1880s.  The others were 1980s

[FeatherFoot]

The others were 1980s

 :shock:  

Tarnation, betcha thats got sumpn to do with the missin buffaler.

[apex]

i think Bob was "born-again" in the 80's.
 :twisted:  :twisted:

[jeeptrick]

The others were 1980s

 :shock:  

Tarnation, betcha thats got sumpn to do with the missin buffaler.

Now don't start nuthin with us injuns

(fighting terrorism since the 1400s)

[dunl]

I heard another good one the other day, teachers are discouraged from using red to mark, because it is TOO degrading for kids.

I better stop now

And any teacher worth their salt would completely disregard that line of thinking, although it has been a true concern of some people

[Wif]

From someone who is old enough to remember this sketch the first time around ..

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

Here's the complete thing .. http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/four_yorkshiremen.htm