"People over 35 should be dead.
Here’s why …
According to today’s regulators , 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 our bikes, 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
we 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 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 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!
Our 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.
People under 30 are WIMPS"
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(and, yeah, yeah, I know that some people are gonna get all high-and-mighty defending their own under-30-ish-ness, how their lives were saved by a helmet, etc, etc,etc. But me and my over-30 ish (and over 40-ish) friends had a good smile over this post, so I thought I’d pass it on.
