Here's to Us! (or: Back to the Future?)

[dancingdoc2]

Here's to US!!!!

No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us,

WE ARE AWESOME !!!!

OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF !!!!


To Those of Us Born:

1930 - 1979

At the end of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno.. If you don't read anything else, please read what he said. Very well stated, Mr. Leno.

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 were pregnant.

* They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.

* Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints..

* We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads. And when we had our sleds, we tied them to the bumper of a car and had a really neat ride as long as you made sure you didn't slide under the car when it stopped.

* As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster
seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.

* Riding in the back of a pick- up truck 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, real butter or lard and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight.. WHY?

Because we were always outside playing...that' s why!

* We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back home when the streetlights came on... No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were OKAY. (In other words--no cell phones, no text messaging, no E-mail.)

* We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them 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 Play stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no 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 would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, fly swatters, or just a bare hand and no one would call child services to report abuse..

* 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!

* These generations have 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.

If 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 so much of our lives for our own good. While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.

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

~

The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:

'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'

For those who prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead and delete this.

For the rest of us...pass this on..

(If you are a teen, you might want to reevaluate how you are living your life and what you consider important and worth striving for as an adult in training.)

Author Unknown

[Browser]

1.21 gigawatts? Great Scott!

[Beckeh]

I'm 19 years old and that sounds a lot like my upbringing. Not that I'm trying to dismiss the idea that things are changing... I guess I was just lucky.

[Brandye]

Great post, Doc.

Welcome back Beckeh. Have not seen you for a while.

[Newtolove]

yes kids don't know what life is about anymore, I wish I had been born many years ago, I would have been much happier i think

[theus]

Doc,

Im thirty-two and I grew up in a rural area so that post brought back so many memories. Times have truly changed.

[funinthesun]

I'm just outside those dates, the first generation to have a Nintendo and computers as kids(lol at hacking each others computers that were booted by floppys).

This goes along with that quite well.

"Everything's Amazing, Nobody's Happy".

YouTube - Louis CK - People in Today's Society Take Things For Granted

[EvilEvilKitten]

Hey - it was worse than that, Doc.

Those born after Salk - the first who were immune to POLIO.

My aunt had it as a child, mildly, and now that she is getting on into her 70's - it has resurfaced.

I remember looking at the pictures of hospital wards full of kids in iron lungs and pictures of kids wearing metal bracings on their legs walking with crutches. Every summer parents would hold their breath and worry if polio would come and get the kids.

Why was polio so rampant? Because we were too CLEAN.

Let that be a lesson to you.

[Visioneer]

That was a refreshing read. I was born in '78 and I think I did everything on that list, minus the BB gun. I was also a big fan of climbing onto the roof of the garage and seeing how far down the driveway I could jump.