People over 35 should be dead by now!
 

Here's why


According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived.

Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.

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 seatbelts or air bags.

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

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

Horrors!

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

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

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode 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 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.

NO CELL PHONES!!!!!

Unthinkable!

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.

We had friends!

We went outside and found them.

We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.

We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

They were accidents.

No one was to blame but us.

Remember accidents?

We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home 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.

Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade.

Horrors!

Tests were not adjusted for any reason.

Our actions were our own.

Consequences were expected

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law.

Imagine that!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and 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!

Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good!!!!!

People under 30 are WIMPS

(Okay...not every person under 30, lol). ;)

amen to all that...

OMG, how true is all of this.

I should have been dead by 32: 6 car wrecks, dog bite, cut with a glass sword, and gun shot!:(

I guess The Man(Or Woman) really looks out for crazies!;)

No kidding, Tom. I was hit by lightning and bitten by a water moccasin in one week back in the day.

Still Alive & Able to Tell About It
 

I loved the toys of the 60s. Mattel "Thingmaker" where we made Creepy Crawlers & Fright Factory items from plastigoop using an open heating element (always unsupervised!). We had Easy Bake Ovens with uncovered light bulbs that burned you. Oh, and don't forget the wood carving sets with electric heating wands. What fun!

:eek: How did you survive the lightening?

I'm slightly under 30 but I should be dead, lol.

I'm just glad to be alive.

I'm 30 on the nose and I can relate to most of that stuff. And I'm not dead! :D

All I can say is: WOW. You guys are tough! :D

I was sitting in a car...the lightning, which they later called "ball" lightning, came through the back window and knocked me forward.

Re: Still Alive & Able to Tell About It
 

Too true! I can still remember what a well-baked Creepy Crawler smelled like, coming out of the oven! And if you mixed red, yellow, and blue Plastigoop (there was no brown) with a bit of black, you could get an absolutely REAL-looking roach.

This is the stuff that Mr Munch's grandmother forwards to me on a regular basis...
 

I'm under 30 and I should be dead now.

In another post, someone made reference to our "litigious society," couldn't that be the reason for the changes? Plus, things just aren't as safe and idyllic as they were even 25 years ago.

I am 35 and still here!;)

I'm over 35 (36), and I've been dead for the last 2 years.