Do you remember the good old days?

Question

so true..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! To have them Back

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 64s, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable (no 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 teachers 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 free

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!

Answer 1

Yes I do, there's too much pressure put on safety somethings, today's children will grow up full of fear, I think all the fuss over food is the worst, now people are afraid to even cook.

Ah well, soon we will be able to go back to our forefathers good old days, cooking out side due to lack of electricity, gas, candles instead of lights, pits for toilets, WHAT FUN.

Answer 2

Yeah I remember those days. I also recall as kids we didn't shoot down our fellow students, and we had prayer in school (voluntary of course never forced). Isn't it odd after prayer was removed, that todays generation has produced some kids who'll blow a schoolmate away.., just because.

I miss the old days. Sure kids got into fights, but they didn't kill each other. There was a line drawn in the sand. And the teachers had respect. We kids talked about them, even made up nasty little pet nick names for them but there was always respect. Today? Its not there.

Answer 3

I try not to 'cos it hurts. The youngsters of today think that this evil, shitt.y society, (where we have no freedom of speech and think that homosexuality and immigration is a way of normal life) is the norm. It hurts to have lost our past, knowing how good it was. I pity the youth of today as they are a brainwashed bunch of silly billies.

Answer 4

No I was always to wasted I once met David Bowie who is well cool and didn`t even remember sad but true

Answer 5

I do, yes I am well over 35

Answer 6

the truth is that people would rather remember the bad events
it's bad news that sell papers i bet more bad news can be recalled than good news.bad news has more impact

Answer 7

remember the good old days you bet i do and i would turn the bloody clock back right now if i could

Answer 8

Yes down at the old bull and bush...bush ..bush!
Ok you didn't mean that but couldn't resist.

Answer 9

ahhhhhhhhh - you have taken me down memory lane and it felt great!. Your comments were so right - it's a shame that some kids today, can't experience what we did........

Answer 10

Yes with very fond memories!!!