CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate soft cheese, shell fish, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
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 seat belts or air bags.
Riding 2 up on your bike was a way of life.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared a bottle of pop with four friends, all drank from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank fizzy drinks with SUGAR in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! NOT IN FRONT OF A TV AND PLAYING VIDEO GAMES!!
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 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, 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!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents .
We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
The boys were given toy guns for their 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out anyones eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
The local team had tryouts and not everyone got in. 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!
This generation has 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!
And 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 our lives for our own good.
and while you are at it, forward it to anyone born from 1980 onwards so they will know how brave you are!!!
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
2006-11-23 02:47:24 · 15 answers · asked by choosinghappiness 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
Best on Yahoo Answers that I've read! I enjoyed reading that! It's so true! I could relate to all of it! I even emailed it to a few people. Thanks for reminding me that the world used to be a different place. We had issues and problems back then but not on the level that exists today! Different problems, different times!
2006-11-23 02:55:26 · answer #1 · answered by luvmuzik 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Destined - I truly congratulate you, not only was your question excellent, without a single spelling mistake, but it was the most sensible I have read on Answers over the past year. Again Congratulations with a capital C: Without trying to take away anything from yours, here is just a small sample of what we did in the 1940's...............read on:
The Hoops Season.
It’s hard to think, for the modern child,
When we were young, what drove us wild.
For computers and those mobile phones,
Are never likely to break bones.
Each year, just as the seasons came,
We boys would play a certain game,
The one that I will tell you true,
Is Hoops, and what we used to do.
A bicycle wheel with the tyre removed,
Was not so bad and so it proved,
A car tyre – never big enough,
But a lorry wheel – now that’s the stuff.
Hoops was what we called the game,
And often ended with great pain,
For when the lorry tyre we’d use,
An unlucky lad we had to choose.
Up the hill, higher and higher
We’d roll the lad, inside the tyre,
Then with a push the mighty load,
Gathered speed towards the road.
Cars were fewer at that time,
So things were looking pretty fine,
Until the wall at the hill’s end,
Came much too soon before the bend.
Each lad, he had to take his turn,
And with each run, he had to learn,
How to make the tyre brake,
Before he reached the road and gate.
‘Till blood was drawn, or bones were broke,
We treated this game as a joke,
But then we’d tremble with great fear,
And stop the nonsense for another year.
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2006-11-23 03:11:50 · answer #2 · answered by thomasrobinsonantonio 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Now those were the days!
Lets not forget, we actually wore out our blue jeans with time, paying $80.00 for a brand new pair that were already wore out with holes, faded and ragged was unheard of.
We also had chores we had to do, whether we earned any money or not, it wasn't debateable. It only made us stronger and more responsible adults, it also never killed us.
Peer pressure normally meant competition in sports, running for a class office, or keeping up with fashion and hair styles...... NOT who can lose thier virginity first.
Many more things come to mind, an endless list, so I shall stop here and only agree, Yes, those were some great years, that produced some really amazing adults.
2006-11-23 03:29:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yea im 17, and that does seem like the good life. I actually wish i was born in those days. Now its just crazy. congrats all you old folks!! lol
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2006-11-23 02:58:06 · answer #4 · answered by *Bella Reveuse* 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because I`m 60 yrs. old but that has to be the best I`ve seen on YA yet! GREAT! question.
2006-11-23 02:53:52 · answer #5 · answered by Hamish 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
excellent 1000/10
2006-11-23 03:35:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ha-Ha.well said.It's SOOOOOOO true!They should put this somewhere where people everyday can read it.peole nowadays are so completely paranoid about everything it's just so stupid.A big bunch o'whino's and uber-WUZZES.
Thanx for posting this.
Once again....HA-HA!
2006-11-23 02:54:19 · answer #7 · answered by NUorlns 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The adventure of life.
2006-11-23 02:51:23 · answer #8 · answered by LAUGHING MAGPIE 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That was good!
2 thumbs way up! (well it will only let me give you one)
2006-11-23 03:45:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha ha,good times! that's great.
2006-11-23 02:50:38 · answer #10 · answered by fairyb04 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋