Someone in my office posted this on our bulletin board and I thought it was such a good honest piece that perhaps, people like me, will like to reminisce and relate with the good, old days! I did relate with some of these myself, and perhaps you too!. So, here goes-----
First, we survived being born to mothers who, perhaps, smoked and/ or drank a glass or two while they carried us.
Our mothers took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and did not get tested for diabetes
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 van - loose- was always great fun.
We drank water from the garden hose pipe 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 cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
We were always outside playing!!!!
On weekend, 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 OK
We would spend hours building 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 resolve the problem.
We did not have playstations, nintendos, x-boxes, no video games at all, no 120 channels, no cable TV, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cd players and no headsets to listen to personal cd players, no cellphones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no internet or internet chat rooms...we only had our friends to play with!
We fell out of trees, suffered cuts, broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We played with sguiggly worms and other insects,or mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever!
We made up games with sticks and stones, and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we rarely poked out any eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door, rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
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 one of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas!"
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I am happy to say I belong to that era...
