[Rhodes22-list] Another Test - With an added bonus!!

Rik Sandberg sanderico@earthlink.net
Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:52:36 -0600


Glen,

Can't argue with that......no sir, not one bit!!!

Those were the good old days, eh.

Rik


At 09:10 PM 12/17/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Rather liked this..
>
>
> >   If you lived as a child in the 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's, looking back,
> > it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have...
> >
> >   As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
>Riding
> > in the back of a ute on a warm day was always a special treat.
> >
> >   Our cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. We had no
> > childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cupboards, and when we rode
> > our bikes we had no helmets.
> >
> >   We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors.
> >
> >   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 solve the problem.
> >
> >   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.
>No
> > mobile phones. Unthinkable.
> >
> >   We got cut and broke bones and broke teeth, and there were no law suits
> > from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame, but us.
> > Remember accidents?
> >
> >   We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned
>to
> > get over it.
> >
> >   We ate patty cakes, bread and butter, and drank cordial, but we were
>never
> > overweight...we were always outside playing. We shared one drink with four
> > friends, from one bottle and no one died from this.
> >
> >   We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, video games, 65
> > channels on pay TV, video tape movies, surround sound, personal mobile
> > phones, Personal Computers, Internet chat rooms ... we had friends. We
>went
> > outside and found them. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and
> > knocked on the door, or rung the bell, or just walked in and talked to
>them.
> > Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves! Out there in
> > the cold cruel world! Without a guardian - how did we do it?
> >
> >   We made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and ate worms, and
>although
> > we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did
>the
> > worms live inside us forever.
> >
> >   Footy and netball had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who
> > didn't, had to learn to deal with disappointment.....
> >
> >   Some students weren't as smart as others so they failed a grade and were
> > held back to repeat the same grade. Tests were not adjusted for any
>reason.
> >
> >   Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. No one to hide
> > behind. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard
> > of. They actually sided with the law - imagine that!
> >
> >   This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem
> > solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years has 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!
> >
> >   Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids,
> > before lawyers and government regulated our lives....... for our own
> > good......
> >
>
>
>
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