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To: Spridget <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Interesting, but no LBC
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:50:58 -0500 5.0; U)
I received this today from my Wife's nephew.

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN 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 carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna
from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were
covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

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 pick up 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 and real butter and
drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't
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 streetlights
came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were
O. K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of
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 have Play stations, Nintendo's,
cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no
cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or
Internet 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 10 th 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 friend's house and
knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just
yelled for 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!

This generation has 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 the freedom, failure, success and
responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!




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