Subject: FW: BORN BETWEEN 1930 AND 1979












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..



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.





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 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 when the streetlights came on..



No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were OKAY.





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, 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 that prefer to think that God is not watching
over us...go ahead and delete this.
For the rest of us...pass this on.




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Have a nice day!