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Over 40
> > You are probably over forty if you get this or
> > approaching it: You lived as a child in the
> > 50s or the 60s...
> >
> > Looking back, it's hard to believe that we have
> > lived as long as we have.................
> >
> > As children, we would ride in cars with no seat
> > belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pickup
> > truck on a warm day was always a special treat. 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
> > hitchhiking to town as a young kid!)
> > We drank water from the garden hose and not from
> > a bottle. Horrors. 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
> > streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us
> > all day. No cell phones. Unthinkable!
> > We played dodgeball and sometimes the ball would
> > really hurt. We got cut and broke bones and broke
> > teeth and there were no law suits 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 ate cupcakes, bread and
> > butter, and drank sugar soda but we were never
> > overweight....
> > We were always outside playing. We shared one
> > grape soda with four friends, from one bottle and no
> > one died from this?
> > We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X
> > Boxes, video games at all, 99 channels on cable,
> > video tape movies, surround sound, personal cellular
> > phones, Personal Computers, Internet chat rooms,
> > .............. We had friends. We went outside and
> > found them. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's
> > home and knocked on the door, or rung the bell or
> > just walked in and talked to them. Imagine such a
> > thing!
> > Without asking a parent! By ourselves! Out
> > there in the cold cruel world! Without a guardian.
> > How did we do 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.
> > 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. No one to hide behind. 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 has 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 that have had the
> > luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and
> > government regulated our lives, for our own good....
> >
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