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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 blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored 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 in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......


WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!



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 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 ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,

made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many 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!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. 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

huh thats funny, most of that stuff is exactly like how my life works. But then again i have been known to sport Rockabilly folds in my jeans and i had a flat top for a while so i might not be a good example...

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1980 LUV 4x4, going under re-construction...

I always had some lumber and nails laying around for the kids. I'd come from work to find the wooden wagon turned into some kind of go cart or something, Bikes torn apart.

The problem today is the adults put too much of their imagination into the toys they manufacture and leave nothing out for the kids to dream up.

I'd tell my wife just leave out some stuff they think they are not supposed to touch and watch them from the window. their imaginations run wild and they would play for hours building their own toys. And having more fun doing it.
Yes they smash fingers and get cuts. It all heals and as adults they have learned how to be careful.

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OK, I'm over it. Where's the beer?

Bad hit.

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OK, I'm over it. Where's the beer?

While I was at the Post Office I saw a lot of it. I found myself paying close attention to the way they tell you to lift different things.

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I want to be different like everybody else.

Good one Luvnit this good country of ours needs more peaple who can remember and relate,lets here some more peaple