An older generation - Nice read

[Fit2bLarge]

TweetCONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN 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 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!

[BigDawg]

TweetI remember doing almost all that !!

[daved150]

TweetGREAT POST....CANT FIGURE OUT HOW WE DID IT!!! LOL

[DJDIGGLER]

TweetI grew up in the 80's and I learned to do all the same things too. I think the real garbage started in the late 90's.

[BDiddy]

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This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

Yup and they also produced the genereration that this rant is directed against. IE the parents that always think their kid is right, buy their kid the XBox360 instead of throwing them out of the house to play outside, got the Megatron toy redesigned because it looked too much like a real gun, and anything else that young kids do or dont today that pisses you off. Yup, those very same generations produced a bunch of whining, *****ing, and lazy kids.

[AlmostThere]

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Yup and they also produced the genereration that this rant is directed against. IE the parents that always think their kid is right, buy their kid the XBox360 instead of throwing them out of the house to play outside, got the Megatron toy redesigned because it looked too much like a real gun, and anything else that young kids do or dont today that pisses you off. Yup, those very same generations produced a bunch of whining, *****ing, and lazy kids.

Dont be so quick to lump everyone in a nice neat group. I know this is gonna draw alot of flak but if u drew two curves one showing the womans movement. The other showing how our society keeps passing new laws to protect us from ourselves. You would see a direct correlation.

The more people listened to what women had to say the worse things got.Soccer moms and their constant *****ing about how everything is dangerous and how the children need protected is gonna be the downfall of almost all of our freedoms.

Flame away but that happens to be this redneck neanderthals opinion.

[a-bomb83]

Tweetcool read.

[FUZO]

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