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JD The Jazz Doctor


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I'm sure this is in a thread somewhere, but....


 



  TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN 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 carried us.
 


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


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


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


As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
 


Riding in the back of a pick up 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 and real butter and drank soda pop 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 streetlights came on.
 


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


We would spend hours building our 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 did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell 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.
 


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 yelled for 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!
 


This generation has 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!
 


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.
 


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


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



 




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-- Edited by JD The Jazz Doctor at 11:00, 2006-07-29

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Oh man... that's no joke! I think my generation was the last to know any of that. I don't even know where my son gets his ideas from.  He was actually offended at me a few weeks back because I made HIM pay to have HIS motorcycle towed to our shop when it died somewhere down the street. He just assumed I would foot the bill for that myself. Ummm... I think not.  It's not my bike.  I wasn't riding it. I know I didn't raise him to expect a handout.

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no kiddin! business is business! you've got people to pay!!

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His actual "big idea" was to (get this...) go buy a tow rope and have me pull him to the shop.  To give you a picture, we are talking about me driving a Ford Excursion dragging him down a two lane divided major thoroughfare.  Not only would that be dangerous, it would be illegal. Before you ask... yes, this is the same kid that recently developed the drinking problem. The frightening part is that this is supposedly sober thinking on his part.

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That is so true!


I was just thinking about this the other day when I saw a kid riding his bike looking like the marshmallow man with all of the padding.


When I was in the 7th grade I brought a 6 inch fold out knife to school  and another kid wanted to trade me his 6 inch knife straight across. When I got it home It had a broken stopper so the blade wouldn't lock into place. I was really mad because my dad gave me the knife that I traded. I told my mom what I did and she contacted the principal and the principal made him trade me back for my knife the next day at school. (let me say that again, my mom knew, the principal knew AND I carried a 6 inch knife around at school) Can you see that happening in this day and age!!



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Amen Brother!

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