To Those born between 1930-1979

I received this in an e mail today, and thought "how true". For those who were too young, or those more forgetful, yes, it did happen this way!
Enjoy.

Also, at the end of this is a quote of the month by Jay Leno, very well stated, Mr. Leno!

To all the kids who survived the 1930s, 40w, 50s, 60s and 70s!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then, after that trauma, we were put down to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright coloured lead-base paint.

We had no child proof medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps, not helmets on our heads.

As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats,seat belts or airbags.
Riding in the back of a pick-up truck 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, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar, and we weren't overweight. Why?
Because we were always outside playing...that's why!
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, and we were OK.
We would spend hours building go-carts from 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 thave Playstations, Nintendo's and X-Boxes.  There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no 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 friends' house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone make 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!

These generations have produced some of the  best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors, ever.
The past 50 years have been and explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success amd responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
If you are one of them?
              CONGRATULATIONS!!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with sissors doesn't it?

The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:

"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from end-to-end, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure we want to take GOD out of the Pledge of Alligence?"