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Sat 16 Sep, 2006 11:10 am
Here's to when the world was half sane!!
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 Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no
99 channels on 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 10th 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 freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And 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 our lives for our own good.
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
I always run through the house with scissors pointed straight out. It really clears the kids out of the hallway!
I just copied and pasted this ossobuco. Everything else made sense so I just assumed the Blue Cheese dressing thing made sense as well.
Once, when I was about four, I recall living in a trailer park, in Firebaugh, California. The dirt just outside the door had to be nasty. So, I went in and found a tablespoon inside a drawer, took it outside and sat down to eat. I ate a huge spoon of it, then tried to interest mt two year old brother in having some. He declined, but I joyously had another mouth-full. That evening, my stomach hurt for about fifteen minutes. After that, I was fine.
Blue cheese dressing was responsible for the agonizingly slow death of thousands of children in the fifties and sixties.
Apparently there was some sort of shredded glass added by the manufacturers of the product to intensify the color of the blue and add a little sparkle to the product.
It was pretty to look at, but once consumed the glass would start shredding the insides of the child and, soon, the child would be a unrecognizable mass of pulverized flesh, a puddle of sludge if you may.
There was protest in the streets and angry parents (who were inexplicably immune) demanded the blue cheese manufacturers take the blue glass out of the product so that their children may live.
Some congressmen witnessed the riots and shortly thereafter, on April 11, 1963, the "Blue Cheese Glass Removal Act" was passed and the streets once again were filled with the sounds of playing children rather than the wails of death.
I lost my two best friends to blue cheese.
I witnessed the deaths of the Bukowski brothers, all five of them.
It wasn't pretty.
Jaime and David Bellevuaux succummed to the Blue Cheese pandemic. But no one really liked them anyway.
A songwriter in Nashville must have seen the thing you copied...Bucky Covington has a hit with A Different World that starts out:
We were born to mothers who smoked and drank
Our cribs were covered in lead-based paint
No childproof lids
No seatbelts in cars
Rode bikes with no helmets
and still here we are
Still here we are
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's
You inherited a world of neighbourlyness and simplicity and gave us what we have today.
Congratulations.
dadpad wrote:TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's
You inherited a world of neighbourlyness and simplicity and gave us what we have today.
Congratulations.
But we were the children of Indian killers, The Great Depression, white men only allowed to do much voting, wars, early on industrialization, and the like.
true ...true...simplistic moralising just doesn't become us edgar
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