Flatfoot said:
With all the anti-bacterial lotions, and other sanitizing products available on the market and advertised constantly, they've turned us all obsessive-compulsive to some degree and paranoid about things we never used to worry about in the old days. Now if you'll excuse me, my hands feel kinda greasy after typing. I think I'm going to go wash them. 😉
Subject: For people over 30
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 hi! ll, 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 streetlights 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 y! ears 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!!!!!
>
> A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but a true friend
> will
be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
People under 30 are WIMPS!
