All people over 25 should be dead.

[Chuckiechan]

To the survivors:

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were
kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 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 seat belts 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
shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one
actually died from this.

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
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 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 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 fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones and teeth, and there were
no lawsuits from these accidents.

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.

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 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.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors?

A must read for people over 25 yrs of age.

[Optimus Prime]

Times change.

[M_Six]

And we couldn't even spell Ritalin or Prozac. No one needed those things then. You paid attention in class because if you didn't, you got sent to the principal's office and your parents would give you hell later.

[SeanC]

Yep. I never get tired of reading this because it's true.

If kids did any of this stuff today, there would be lawsuits flying all over the place. It's ridiculous.

Sean

[wju425]

Amazing. We must be some hardy bunch. I was a kid in the 50s. I cheated death so many times I lost count.

\o/ Billy

[Beemer]

Anyone that knows me knows that I never took any chances. I demanded that my crib be scraped and repainted while I was out watching the other kids climb the tree....lol

Ya! Right!
I always pushed the tolerance of my parents and peers with my antics. To many to describe here. I would be writing an autobiography of pain and punishment.

No mention of drugs of the 60's/70's in the script. Anyone find out how to stop the twitching yet?

Cheers!

[Creatures]

R.I.P.



Creatures

[RedFury]

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors?

Sounds like a good idea to me!

[TOAD6147]

That was then, this is now. It's a whole different ballgame.

[Optimus Prime]

I agree Toad.

Also, with this "kidnapping" issue, it didn't happen 25 years ago? You want a bet? How about the Hindley's? Or maybe you wouldn't know about them? How about the evil little.. man, that killed two ten year olds, how much do you want a bet that he was over 25?

It's over, your time period is over.

How about when fridges had locks on them, so when children played inside they got locked and died of suffocation? Yeah, 25 years ago.