one of those friday afternoon e-mail things

SamT

Moderator
But it makes you think.. :)


According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were
>kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have
survived,
>because our baby cots were covered with brightly colored lead-base
>paint that was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids
on
>medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to
>play with pans.
>
>When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and
>fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels. As children, we would ride
>in cars with no seat belts or airbags - riding in the passenger seat
>was a treat.
>
>We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it
tasted
>the same.
>
>We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar
>in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside
>playing.
>
>We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no
>one actually died from this. We would spend hours building go-carts
out
>of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we
>forgot the brakes.
>
>After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve
>the problem.
>
>We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as
>we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no
one
>minded.
>
>We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all.
>
>No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no
mobile
>phones, no personal computers, and no Internet chat rooms.
>
>We had friends we went outside and found them ourselves. We played
>elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt.
>
>We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones but there were no
>lawsuits.
>
>We had full on fistfights but no prosecution followed from other
>parents.
>
>We played knock-and-run and were actually afraid of the owners
catching
>us.
>
>We walked to friend's homes. We also, believe it or not, WALKED to
>school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which
>was just round the corner.
>
>We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.
>
>We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
>
>The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of.
>They actually sided with the law.
>
>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.
>
>Moreover, you are one of them. Congratulations!
>
>Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids,
>before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.
 
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Titch98

Guest
......and it was fine to play with pans.

.......until you got them stuck on your head and had to go to hospital to have it removed...........

:oops:
 

Stu

Active member
i got my head stuck in some railings in stockport town centre...kids eh?
 

SamT

Moderator
Best for me was getting my head stuck the kiddies trainer loo seat thing as mum and dad were hurridly packing to go on holiday - so funny they took photos. :LOL:

not so good was splitting my head open on the cattle grid outside our house whist running without looking where I was going :oops:
 
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