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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 coloured lead-based paint
which 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.
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 law suits. We had
full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from
other parents. We played knock-and-run and were
actualy 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. Werode 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
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.
And you're 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. For those of you who aren't
old enough thought you might like to read about us.
This my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and
it might put a smile on your face:
The majority of students in universities today were
born in 1983........They are called youth. They have
never heard of We are the World, We are the children,
and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy
Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astley,
Bananarama, Nena or Belinda Carlisle.
For them, here has always been only one Germany and
one Vietnam. AIDS has existed since they were born.
CD's have existed since they were born. Michael
Jackson has always been white. To them John Travolta
has always been round in shape and they can't imagine
how this fat guy could be a god of dance. They
believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible
are Films from last year. They can never imagine life
before computers. They'll never have pretended to be
the A Team, RedHand Gang or the Famous Five.
They can't believe a black and white television ever
existed and don't even know how to switch on a TV
without a remote control. And they will never
understand how we could leave the house without a
mobile phone.
Now let's check if we're getting old...
1. You understand what was written above and you
smile.
2. You need to sleep more, usually until the
afternoon, after a night out.
3. Your friends are getting married/already married.
4. You are always surprised to see small children
playing comfortably with computers.
5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you
shake your head.
6. You meet your friends from time to time, talking
about the good old days, repeating again all the fun
you have experienced together.
7. Having read this mail, you are thinking of
forwarding it to some other friends because you think
they will like it too...
Yes, you're getting older!!!!
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Those bloody elastics hurt too if they pinged on you!
