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Old 12-06-2002, 03:47 PM
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Talking We're Survivors

This message was sent to me, and I'm passing it on. It makes some very interesting points. How EVER did we survive?! Enjoy!

If you lived as a child in the 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's. . .

Looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have...

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

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

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 hitchhiking to town as a young kid!), and riding on the running board. (What's a running board?)

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. (Horrors!)

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 streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day.

No cell phones. (Unthinkable!) We played dodge ball and sometimes the ball would really hurt. We got cut and broke bones and broke teeth, and there were no law suits 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 ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda but we were never overweight...we were always outside playing. We shared one grape soda with four friends, from one bottle and no one died from this.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, video games at all, 99 channels on cable, video taped movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, internet chat rooms ... we had friends. We went outside and found them! We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rung the bell or just walked in and talked to them. Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves! Out there in the cold cruel world! Without a guardian. How did we do
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.

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.....(oh, my!) Tests were not adjusted for any reason. GLORAAAAAAAAY!!

Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. No one to hide behind.

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

Our generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years has 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!

What else did we survive??

I know I survived EVERY LAST ONE OF MY MOMMA'S WHOOPINGS!!! I never ever called 696-KIDS on her either.
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Old 12-06-2002, 04:10 PM
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I was a child in the mid- to late 1960s and the 1970s. I'm glad that I survived life!

After my junior high school experience as an extreme misfit, I was convinced that I would be dead at the age of 18.

Earlier than that, I remember rolling around on the couch at my house, crying because I was afraid that an earthquake would separate California from the rest of the United States.
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Old 12-08-2002, 11:37 AM
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Earlier than that, I remember rolling around on the couch at my house, crying because I was afraid that an earthquake would separate California from the rest of the United States. [/B][/QUOTE]

How about I thought it would happen, during the October 1991 Earthquake in the San Francisco/Oakland area, as I sat on my coach watching Donahue
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Old 12-08-2002, 11:44 AM
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Hey this includes the 80s too, lol, especially the early 80s. Those were the good ol' days.
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Old 12-08-2002, 11:59 AM
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Earlier than that, I remember rolling around on the couch at my house, crying because I was afraid that an earthquake would separate California from the rest of the United States.
How about I thought it would happen, during the October 1991 Earthquake in the San Francisco/Oakland area, as I sat on my coach watching Donahue [/B][/QUOTE]

That one was a doozy. I was in San Diego when that earthquake went down, so I wasn't in the line of fire, but I saw the news accounts.

My earthquake fears were back in 1975, when I was 11 years old, fueled by some scary syndicated TV show.
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Old 12-12-2002, 09:39 AM
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Re: We're Survivors

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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.
I never ate no worms. UGH!!!!

I really liked this little essay!
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