No matter
what our kids and the new generation think about
us,

WE ARE
AWESOME !!!!




OUR LIFE IS
LIVING PROOF !!!!




To
Those of Us
Born

1930 - 1979




At
the end of this email is a quote of the month by Jay
Leno. If you don't read anything else,
please read
what he said.




Very
well stated, Mr. Leno.







TO
ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED 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 were pregnant.




They
took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and
didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then
after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby
cribs covered with
bright colored lead-base paints..

We
had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or
cabinets and when we rode our bikes,




we had baseball caps

not
helmets on our heads.

As
infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.


Riding
in the back of a pick- up truck 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, real butter and bacon. We drank
Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight.. WHY?




Because
we were always outside playing...that's why!

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 OKAY.

We
would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them 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 Play stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or
DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's,




no cell phones, no personal computers,

no Internet and no 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
would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong
paddles, or just a bare hand and no one would call child
services to report abuse.







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 walked in and talked to 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!

These
generations have 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.




If
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 so much of our lives for our own good.




While
you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how
brave and lucky their parents were.

Kind
of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?

~




The
quote of the month is by




Jay Leno:

'With
hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one
end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God
out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'




For
those that prefer to think that God is not watching over
us...go ahead and delete this.