Humor's Healing Power: You Gotta Laugh: "Why Aren’t All People Over 25 Dead?" (Source: Anonymous Forward)
To the Survivors of Childhood:
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's probably should not have survived.
Our cribs and walls were coated with lead-based paint.
We had no child-proofing on medicine bottles, electrical outlets or cabinets. We were closely supervised, and we understood, "No! That's dangerous!" meant we really better not do it!
We rode our bikes without helmets. (Not to mention the 60’s… Hitchhiking?)
We rode in cars with no seat belts, nor air bags. Riding in "the way back” of the station wagon, or in an open pickup truck on a warm day, was bliss! We drank water from the garden hose, (Horrors! ) shared one soft drink among four friends, and no one actually died from this. We ate cupcakes, Twinkies, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We’d leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on. Gone all day-- No cell phones. (Unthinkable!) We’d spend hours building go-carts out of scraps, and then rode down-hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. (ow!) After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to anticipate, and solve, problems.
We did not have Play Stations, Nintendo, no video games at all. There were no 99 channels on cable, videos, DVDs, surround-sound, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms. We had friends! We went outside and found them. We rode bikes, or roller skated, or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door, or rang the bell ….or just walked in, and their moms doled out home-baked cookies.
We fell out of trees, got scraped-up, broke bones, chipped teeth, and there were no lawsuits. Accidents were just accidents. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We double-dared and ate worms, and although we were warned otherwise, we put out very few eyes, and the worms did not live inside us forever.
Little League had tryouts, and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment, work toward a goal, and root for others. The idea of our parents bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the authorities. Imagine that! We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with them all.
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and discovery. This generation has produced some of the finest problem solvers, risk-takers and inventors in history. And if you're one of them….Congratulations!
[Kinda makes you want to run around the house with a pair of scissors...Right?]
[Editorial note: For anyone who didn't get that last one...
It was a joke. Don't do it.
That one is still very, very dangerous...
[And you are most likely under 25! lol...]
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