>>People over 30 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 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 !
>>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 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 !