how's your memory? or are you too young............

[bobflemming]

> CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
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> 1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
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> First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or
>drank while they carried us.
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> They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a
>tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
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> Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with
>bright coloured lead-based paints.
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> 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 .
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> As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air
>bags.
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> Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun.

> We drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a
>bottle.
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> We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle
>and NO ONE actually died from this.
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> We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with
>sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
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> WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
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> We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long
>as we were back when the streetlights came on.
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> No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

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> 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 .
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> 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 text messaging, no personal computers, no
>Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside
>and found them!
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> We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and
>there were no lawsuits from these accidents .
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> We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the
>worms did not live in us forever.
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> Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we
>were told it would happen, we did not poke out any eyes.
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> We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on
>the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
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> Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team.
>Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
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> The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was
>unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
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>> This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers,
>problem solvers and inventors ever!
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> The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and
>new ideas.
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> We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we
>learned
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HOW TO
> DEAL WITH IT ALL!
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> And YOU are one of them!
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> CONGRATULATIONS!
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> 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
>our lives for our own good.
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> and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they
>will know how brave their parents were.
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>> Kind of makes you want to run through the house with
>scissors, doesn't it?!
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> PS -The BIG type is because your eyes are shot at your age.....
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A day without wine is like a day without sunshine -hic!