THIS IS THE TRUTH - PASS IT ON!!

[O2BESOHUGE]

TweetTHOSE BORN 1920-1979
READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY JAY LENO. IF YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE---VERY WELL STATED

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-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 infants &children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, 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 Kool-aid made with sugar, 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 OK.

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 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or 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 poke 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 that prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead and delete this.

For the rest of us..pass this ON!

[daved150]

Tweet...it's stupid the way things have gone for the sake of "the children"...i biotch about this shyt to my wife all the time!

[horsepwr]

TweetLeno is on point with that. I can go off on a tangent about these types of things when I hear or see some of the rediculous stuff now-days.

We would be gone all day. We'd take our pellet rifles with us. (lived in the sticks for allot of my youth)

[quirkysmilin]

TweetAmen!

[O2BESOHUGE]

TweetWE WOULD TAKE 22'S AND WALK THE DITCH ALL DAY SHOOTIN BIRDS...ANY BIRD THAT MOVED - WE DIDNT CARE. AND NO ONE EVER CALLED THE COPS ON US. EVER.

[daved150]

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WE WOULD TAKE 22'S AND WALK THE DITCH ALL DAY SHOOTIN BIRDS...ANY BIRD THAT MOVED - WE DIDNT CARE. AND NO ONE EVER CALLED THE COPS ON US. EVER.

and we NEVER wore a bike helmet!!! i did a front flip off my bike one time, when i was racing down a vidock and at the bottom on the shoulder of the road, was loose sand! no problem here...and we used to race three wheelers up and down the road and nobody called the cops...shyt, one of my friends dad WAS THE COPS!!! lol...we're turning our kids into a nation of poocee's!!!

THATS IT!!! THIS FRIDAY MY KIDS GOING TO PLAY FOOTBALL IN HOCKEY PADS AND A LEATHER HELEMT!! I AINT RAISING NO POOCEE!!!

[FUZO]

TweetALOT OF KIDS THESE DAYS ARE SOFT AND SPOILED.

[Dzone]

Tweetlol...ya, anybody that would have been seen wearing a helmet to ride a bike would have gotten his ass kicked or at least we would have stoned him with rocks while we laughed our ass off

[Dzone]

Tweetkids can be so mean...I cringe when I think about some of the crazy mean shit we did as kids...OMG! Lord have mercy on us all

[O2BESOHUGE]

TweetAMEN DZONE....! WE DID SOME CRAZY STUFF TOO!

[daved150]

Tweetbut we all ended up fine!! it's part of growing up...we didnt know that fire was gonna burn or hand until we tried to grab it! now we know...fire hot! lol

[Dzone]

Tweetwhats the worst shit you did? I remember when we would throw those little paper squares from the butter patties onto the cafeteria floor and watch people slip and fall on their asses...OMG...While we are rolling on the floor laughing...