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Rod
11-09-2004, 01:23 PM
Ain't it the truth.
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 coloured 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 ute on a warm day was always a special treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

Horrors!
We ate cakes, bread and butter, and drank soft drinks 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 MOBILE 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 mobile phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms. We had friends! We went outside and found them.
We played brandies, 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.

Kids footy 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!

before lawyers and government regulated ourlives, for our own good !!!!!

People under 30 are WIMPS

dvmcmrhp52
11-09-2004, 01:51 PM
here, here!
Sounds like it's beer o'clock............
Need to celebrate our thick skins before we get TOO old to remember how..................... :i dunno:

sharon
11-09-2004, 03:19 PM
And we still only feel 20 :wave-hi: yer i had a great time as a kid too. Sharon

Topcat
12-09-2004, 06:27 PM
:rolleyes:

That almost made me cry- sorry i was just remembering the hideings :sad: but you couldn't let anyone see you cry.

They were the days riding home no lights on your bike, hoping you don't get hit by a car, so you'd ride on the foot path & knock over some person(just Kidding), in those day you'd stop and help em back up ;)

:laughing:

Tonyr
12-09-2004, 07:09 PM
LOL Rod, good read mate!

Funny you say that, wife and I were talking about this just recently about how we are and how our kids are....yep, certainly different times, even education is different, kids are meaner nd get away with anything, and in this new age no one seems accountable for their actions.

I enjoyed your post mate....at 38, I enjoyed the trip down memory path :)