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Offline Anonymous

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If your over 30, you should be dead
« on: August 06, 2004, 05:41:00 PM »
People over 35 should be dead.

Here's why .

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were
kids in the 30's, 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 were disciplined by our friends parents and neighbors too...and
our parents approved .

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, and try
harder next time.

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.
And if our teache rs disciplined us, so did our parents!
They actually sided with what was right.
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 pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as
kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own
good !!!!!

People under 30 are WIMPS !
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If your over 30, you should be dead
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2004, 09:09:00 PM »
:nworthy:

Forgive me if I steal this!
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Offline Cynthia

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If your over 30, you should be dead
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2004, 10:36:00 PM »
What a great post! How DID we survive? The boys in my neighborhhod use to blow up frogs with firecrackers. Today, they would be in the shrinks office as a future murderers. Kids rode bikes with seats missing and a post sticking up, just below their butts. We would ice skate near running water and fall in.(This was so painful we only fall in once a year. The next year we would do the same dumb thing. We must have forgotten that long,cold walk home wearing skates.)I was riding in the back of the family station wagon, the back bench seat was folded down flat. We used to sit on the smooth metal, Indian style, because even my skinny 4 year old legs didn't fit between the front seat and folded back seat. My Mom took a sharp turn, I had to hold on, not to slide and roll across the car. So, I grabbed the door handle.. OUT THE DOOR I ROLLED! For years, I thought about this, thinking it must have been a dream.  One day I asked my mother some 20+ years later. It really DID happen. My Dad found out for the first time, the same day I did, and I thought he could kill her.I recall her actually yelling at ME for falling out of a moving car at four years old. She still won't discuss it. My sisters and I find it hysterical. Oh yeah, my sister was looking at me when I was a few weeks old, in a tiny portable wooden lead painted crib. She was so exicted, the crib shook and the bottom dropped out and so did I. We still have this crib and ALL our kid slept in it. The bottom is screwed in NOW! At 43, they still tease me about being the one who was dropped. Another thing I can recall was in the forth grade, my teacher would take masking tape and wrap it around the "hyper" kids heads to cover their mouths. :scared:  I knew it was sick and I was 9. She was actually a nice teacher too. Looking back, they must have had ADHD. It was always the same few boys. They were nice kids, just loud and didn't sit still. Then she would pull the tape off fast and hurt them. Imagine THAT happening today. We ARE lucky to be alive!
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If your over 30, you should be dead
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2004, 10:44:00 PM »
Remember "Jarts", I threw one at a boy I was mad at. Thank God I missed. What the heck was I thinking about? I could have killed him. People under 30 don't even know what they were....Remember "Klick Klacks"?  Two transparent balls attached to a string that you would click together. They were taken away from us and banned in schools because they could shatter and impale an eye. They were fun!
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