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People over 35 should be dead!! here is one to think about everyone Let me know what you think about this? |
Subject: Forward: People over 35 should be dead! According to today's regulations and bureaucracies, 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 ourbikes, 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 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 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. On a hot summer day we would take off and head for the river, lake,or pond and dive in the cool water or took a try on a rope swing god for bid there was no lifegaurd there or at least a growen up but as friends we looked after each other. 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 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!! If the young kids today only knew what life growing up back in the 60's & 70's was like!!! Our parents were strict, but actually seemed to give a damn, gangs were only something you saw on t.v., if you got in a fight- it was with your fists, not guns!! we weren't afraid to actually fist fight back then!! Now they all just run to get a gun!! Aids?? what the heck was that??? Soon a letter like the one above will be written for this generation!!! you have a lot of time on your hands And your question is what? Did you not notice you are in Yahoo answers? Good job. tell me about it. I ran free all day and we never had to worry about predators. We rode our bikes without helmets and when I was small enough I stood in the seat beside my dad when he drove. still I live. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanid=... I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that the target audience for this message is people who are alive. In data analysis, this is what's known as selection bias. Indeed, many kids didn't wear seat belts way back when. Some of them are now, in technical medical terminology, dead. The dead ones don't write such rants. Kids brain-damaged by lead or preventable blunt trauma may write, but they are probably not responsible for the above question(?). Probably. Still, life unfettered by bureaucratic interference remains tempting. And so I find myself musing on the good old days. I mean the really old days--30,000 years ago. Bureaucrats and lawyers didn't even exist yet. We were on our own and took responsibility for our actions. When we were attacked by a lion, we bled until we passed out and died. When we lost our teeth, we stopped eating and died. If we were painting a cave wall and scratched a finger that then got infected, we didn't complain to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration. And we didn't sue Og, who made the paint, or Oog, who chose the wall. We just waited for the infection to spread, and we keeled over. If we wanted to go somewhere, driven by mind-numbing desperation to find some scrap of decaying antelope before we starved to death, we went on our own two bare feet. If we lived to 35, we got stared at for being so elderly. And we talked about how kids were wimps because they wore animal skins on their feet. It just goes to show how tough some of us old farts really are! lol, yeah i know... we worry too much now and don' t let kids be kids. |
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