people over 35 should be dead

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-03-2004
people over 35 should be dead
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Tue, 02-24-2004 - 10:34pm
People over 35 should be dead!!!

This is is a story that I received from my Uncle who is in his late 70's and is still one of the most fun people that I ever met besides my Father and Grand Father. They grew up in the depression and they made their own fun. In the back yard of the home where they grew up I played as a child on homemade merry-go-rounds, they took one of those little peddle cars and hooked it up on pulleys on the close line and we would take a ride in the sky, they had a storage house full of old curtains and cloths where we would pretend to be kings and queens and we never got seriously hurt. This story reminded me what life was like before the government started telling us how to run every aspect of our life.... so read on and remember your old story or dream of what might have been if you were born in another time.

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids

in the 40's, 50's, 60's or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't

have survived.

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 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 pickup truck on a warm day was always a

special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors!

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it,

but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one

actually died from this.

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 street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all day.

No

cell phones. Unthinkable!

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all,

no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell

phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.

We had friends! We went outside and found them.

We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.

We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and 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 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.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home 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.

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.

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 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're one of them! (if your over 35)

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...

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors,

doesn't it?

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-17-2003
Wed, 02-25-2004 - 4:00pm
How funny and so true!! I remember my Mom sending me to school with a sack lunch with either tuna fish or bologna with no refrigeration or ice packs or juice boxes. Never once did I get sick from eating warm tuna at school. I loved riding in the back of the pickup even on the freeway and sometimes we would ride with the tailgate down. Gosh to imagine that these days. We never had to worry about trick or treating. Our neighbors would hand out homemade goodies-candy apples-popcorn balls-cookies-etc and we never got any surprises in them. I remember playing in the middle of the street at night. I only wish my dd who is 22 months could have some of the same experiences I did as a child. :)
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-10-2004
Wed, 02-25-2004 - 7:50pm
LOL!Thanks for sharing that!I had to laugh!It is so funny and yet so true!Oh for the good old days!
iVillage Member
Registered: 02-03-2004
Thu, 02-26-2004 - 12:10am
I thought it was good to share,put a smile on everyones face