People over 35
People over 35 should be dead.
Here's why .
According to
today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids
in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or 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 seatbelts 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 outside 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 cell phones,
personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.
We had friends!
We went outside and found them.
We played
dodge ball, and sometimes, 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 weren't 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.
Our actions
were our own.
Consequences were expected.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a 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!
Please share
this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before
lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good !!!!!
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