Bunko.T Loc: Western Australia.

Apologies if this has been around before. Some of the products maybe Aust specific but bare with it. The message is international. How times have changed.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930'2, 1940's,1950's and 1960's

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank Sherry while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos...
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Nandos.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00 pm and didn't open on a Sunday, somehow we didn't starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers and Bubble Gum.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter, milk from the cow, and drank soft drinks 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 street lights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were OK.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes!
We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY, no video/DVD films, or colour TV, no mobile 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.

Only girls had pierced ears!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at EASTER TIME time....

We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet because we didn't need to keep up with the Jones's!

Not everyone made the rugby/football/cricket/netball team.
Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
Getting into the team was based on MERIT!!

Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and throw the blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren't concentrating...

We can string sentences together and spell and have proper conversations because of a good, solid three R's education.

Our parents would tell us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!

Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora', 'Blade' 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'.

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.

nascar27 Loc: Kansas City, MO

Exactly...I was born in the 50's and reading this brings back good memories of life growing up. A simpler way of life but in so many ways a more rewarding experience with lessons learned that I carried in adulthood and taught our children too. 8-)

oldmalky Loc: West Midlands,England.

we had to survive the war as well(ww2)

Greg Brandt Loc: illinois

Born in '62, and wouldn't trade that childhood for anything. From a small town and knew every kid in it, every back alley, shortcut also. Spent my summers "living" up and down the railroad tracks that went through the edge of town and what seemed like a forest of trees. Of course I had my trusty Daisy BB gun with me for protection out in the wild :-). Pure paradise for a young boy. Actually, would mind that now either.

PRETENDER Loc: Micanopy,Florida

I was born in 1938 and often ask myself, what changed.

Greg Brandt Loc: illinois

Technology, computer games and the ability to get more than 3 TV stations.

lovesphotos Loc: Colorado and Arizona

Yup. That's the way it was alright. The only sad part in the whole thing is in the second sentence, where it says they didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer, and lot of them succumbed to those and still are.

PRETENDER Loc: Micanopy,Florida

I guess that's where the saying ignorance is bliss come from.

dubach

i think you could throw in the 70s as well and definitely the good ole days. :)

Sierracoyote Loc: Sierra Nevada Mountains

So true and to think of some of the things I did with my friends...great memories.
And my My favorite saying is...
Good judgement comes from experience,
Experience comes from poor judgement.

lovesphotos Loc: Colorado and Arizona

You lost me there, in your last sentence my friend.

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

I was born in 1930. Been there done that. Still in good health. My grandfather was born in 1865 and died in 1965. would have been 101 if he lived two more months. I guess I come from good stock.

Sierracoyote Loc: Sierra Nevada Mountains

I looked that saying up and here is the origin-

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater

Another quote that may help-
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."

Will Rogers

lovesphotos Loc: Colorado and Arizona

Thanks. I think I like the quote from Will Rogers much better as I believe both the good and the bad judgement has a role in gathering experience.

Sierracoyote Loc: Sierra Nevada Mountains

I agree!