Rackaddict
Life Member
People over 35 should be dead. According to today's regulators
and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's
and 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 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 computers or Internet chat rooms.
We had friends! We went outside and found them. We played dodge
ball, and sometime, 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 were not 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. The idea
of a parent bailing us out if we broke the 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! Congratulations.
I'm glad I had the luck to grow up as a kid 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?
and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's
and 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 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 computers or Internet chat rooms.
We had friends! We went outside and found them. We played dodge
ball, and sometime, 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 were not 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. The idea
of a parent bailing us out if we broke the 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! Congratulations.
I'm glad I had the luck to grow up as a kid 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?
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