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 first, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank
while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for
diabetes. 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 juice 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 DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.
We had friends - we went outside and found them. We played elastics and
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 chap-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners
catching us. We walked to friends' 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 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're one of them. Congratulations!
The majority of students in universities today were born in the late
80s........They are called youth.
They have never heard of:
We are the World, We are the children and the Uptown Girl they know is
by Westlife not Billy Joel.
They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda
Carlisle. (possibly not a bad thing of course....) 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 Red Hand Gang or the
Famous 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 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 smiled.
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 kids with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6. You remember watching Dirty Den in EastEnders the first time around.
7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old
days, repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together.
8. You're starting to dance like your father/mother..............God
forbid!!
Daren
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