Should you have survived?????

[iggy1966]

> > Subject: Should you have survived?
> >
> > yes..we are that old...
> >
> > 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 Playstations 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, 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 lawsuits.We had full on fist fights but no
> > prosecution followed from other parents.
> > We played nick-nack and were 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.
> > We rode 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 from1983
> onward.
> > They have never heard of We are the World, We are
> > the children, and the Uptown Girl they know by Westlife not
> Billy
> > Joel.
> > They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena or
> > Belinda Carlisle.
> > For them, there 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 Famus Five.
> > They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It or
> > Why Don't You.
> > 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.
> > 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 remember watching Dirty Den in EastEnders the
> > first time around.
> >
> > 7. You meet your
> > fiends from time to time, talking about the good old
> > days, repeating again all the fun you have
> > experienced together.
> >
> > 8. 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!!!!
> >
> > A society grows great when old men plant trees whose
> > shade they know they shall never sit in.