Those who survived 1930-1970

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:08 am Post subject: Those who survived 1930-1970

To those of you born 1930 - 1970 Very Happy

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE

1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

F irst, 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.20

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 tire's 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 act ually 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 O.K.

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 Playstations, 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 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?'

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:05 pm Post subject:

HAHAHA...being born in the Year of the Tiger 1962, all of the above is applicable to me, except for the broken bones/teeth and the BB gun. Oh, and the kids of my own. At least not that I know of... Rolling Eyes

Thanks for posting! Very Happy

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Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:20 pm Post subject:

That is great! Thanks for posting!
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Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:29 pm Post subject:

Neat i guess, now its my generation thats gotta fix everything Laughing

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Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:20 pm Post subject:

I never ate a worm.

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:24 pm Post subject:

the 80's were like that some what.

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:59 am Post subject:

A miracle we survived, the "Cold War" of the fifties good times! Shocked

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Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:03 pm Post subject:

I once ate a thing that looked like a carrot growing out of the ground: Blah
it was gross, but i survived Very Happy

Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:57 am Post subject:

Wow, that sounds like me... I was born in 1978.

Always busy... but I did have the Atari 7800... always played Joust and Donkey Kong,,

And the NES.. sorry.. Super mario and Pinbot kicked arse,, but I also played on a Basketball team then. Built model rocket engine rocket launchers, and rollerbladed and skated as well... kool aid rocked, but I liked Coke better.

Wasn't til' high school that lazy friends, pot, ale, and 007 on the Nintendo 64 took a hold of me.
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