Congratulations if you were born in the 1920's,30's,40's,50's,60's,70's

[mthead]

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE


1920's, 30'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 and lived in houses made of asbestos.


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


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 or shoes, not to mention, the risks some of us took hitchhiking.


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


Riding in the back of a Ute on a warm day was always a special treat.


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 Red Rooster.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, 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 Fruit Tingles and some fire crackers to blow up frogs and lizards with.


We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter 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 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. We built tree houses and cubby houses and played in creek beds with matchbox cars.


We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape or DVD movies, no surround sound, 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.......no really!


We were given BB guns and sling shots for our 10th birthdays,

We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing at Maralinga in 1956.

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!

Footy had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather straps and bully's always ruled the playground at school.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like "Kiora" and "Blade".....

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 70 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?!

PS -The big type is because your eyes are shot at your age

[cashman]

love it mt, it was ok then.

[BERNADETTE]

So very, very true makes you wonder how we survived

[panther]

I did summat similar on this back in 2004...

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...vors-6312.html


very true and still think the 70's and 80's were the best times

[vera]

I grew up in North London, used to ride on the underground at the age of 10, used to walk for miles, go to the park about 3-4 miles from home and did all this on my own and still here on earth to tell the tale, one dare not do any of that at any age these days

[Benipete]

Originally Posted by panther

I did summat similar on this back in 2004...

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...vors-6312.html


very true and still think the 70's and 80's were the best times

Only because you missed the 60s

[banjoman]

I remember playing football at Peel Park until we couldnt actually see the ball. Scores of 69-50 after playing for hours. Never once did we worry about strange men,knives,drugs etc. And I`d walk home by myself at 10:00 and my mother didnt worry.

In fact they worried more if we DIDNT want to go out and play football or cricket or tennis.

[Mancie]

Originally Posted by vera

I grew up in North London, used to ride on the underground at the age of 10, used to walk for miles, go to the park about 3-4 miles from home and did all this on my own and still here on earth to tell the tale, one dare not do any of that at any age these days

Yep..just a normal day out playing, looking, and learning...it really is a crying shame that these day's our own kids can't do the same.

[grannyclaret]

That was when we were not treated like china dolls,,,we loved getting mucky,,,and eating stuff we had dropped on the floor,,,,funny how a butty always landed butterside down,,,or marg in most cases,,,,,,We had syrup butties,,,ooh that would rot your teeth these days...Its a shame those days arnt back,,,,

[ossy kid]

AND if we wanted money we saved our Friday threepence OR got a paper round and didn,t expect "owt fer nowt".

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by grannyclaret

We had syrup butties,,,ooh that would rot your teeth these days...Its a shame those days arnt back,,,,

I often treat myself to a treacle butty
but I do take my teeth out first

[Ber999T]

MT that was brill born c1956 and recalling all the things me and mates did LOL.

Getting sticky tar all over you as you picked the melted tarmac in the summer holidays and make tarballs.

Collecting "stickie" back thistles and throwing them at mates and then trying to get them all out of clothes before Mum saw them.

Great memories being brought back