Memories Are Made Of This!!

[davethefish1]

Here's to US!!!!

No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us,
WE ARE AWESOME !!!!
OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF !!!!
To Those of Us Born 1930 - 1979
At the end of this email is a quote of the
month by Jay Leno.. If you don't read anything else, please read what he said.


TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

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 to
sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered
with bright colored lead-base paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine
bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.
As infants & children, we would ride in
cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.
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 streetlights came on..
No one was able to reach us all day. And,
we were OKAY.
We would spend hours building our go-carts
out of scraps and then ride them 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 Play stations, 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 would get spankings with wooden spoons,
switches, ping pong paddles, or just a bare hand and no one would call child services to report abuse.

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 poke out very many eyes..

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's 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
made 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 an explosion of
innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and
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.

While you are at it, forward it to your
kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the
house with scissors, 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 one end to another, and with the threat of swine flu and terrorist
attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'
For those that prefer to think that God is
not watching over us...go ahead and delete this.
For the rest of us...pass this on. Amen All!

[Suthrngntlmn]

So true.