OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979...

[Nightfly]

TO ALL THE KIDS

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

 
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright coloured 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 infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, 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 koolade made with sugar, 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 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or 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 weren't given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,

We 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 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. Imagine that!!

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

 
They actually sided with the law!

 
These generations have 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!

 
If 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 so much of our lives

 
for our own good.

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

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

[madasahatstand]

yes it makes me want to run out of the house and play 2 man hunt. we didnt think it was sexist then to say two man hunt or two man tent etc.
im a bit worried about the eating worm thing though. i didnt think people actually did that. yuck. big fat juicy ones wee skinny linky ones, see how they wriggle and squirm. you chop off their legs, sook oot the blood and throw the skins away. nobody knows how i survive on worms 3 time a day.............yum yum...lmao

[ericstoner]

We played on building sites, fell meny floors through scaffolding.

We climbed trees, and fell out, or avoided our friends chucking stones at us.

We played 15 a side football over the summer hols,and kept records or the results.

We played hookey from school, and rode the trains all day for nothing.

We got drunk on quarter bottles of bacardi mixed with bottle of coke,and were brought home by the local cops.

We got beaten black and blue, by our parents, yet still loved them to pieces.

We knew who all the 'funny men were' and just avoided them, and kept an eye out for our mates.

we had fights.

We went shoplifting after school.

we fumbled in the dark with our mates sister, listerning to 'Band of gold'

We watched what dad wanted to on the telly,except for Top of the pops, which he would let us see, so he could ogle BABS out of 'Pans people'

We stayed out all night in the graveyard, but put the willies up each other.

We played on '  the swings' includeing the whiches hat the roundabout the big slide etc.

We played 40 man british bulldog.

We went round jonny moufarge's mums flat, who although she had no furniture, or carpets,we would tuck into homemade apple pie.

We went to saturday morming pictures.

Later we went to sat morning Top rank, whare we slow danced with a girl.

Later still. We found PUNK. (by the way Anarcy in the UK, Sex pistols,was released 30 years ago this week.)

We did a Paper round,and knicked ciggies and sweets from old Mr barnet.

We got the cane........at 9 years old.

We found stuff on demolision sites,and we built camps.

We came down in the morning and got dressed in frount of a three bar fire (All three of my brothers)

We slept with our brother till we were 15.

We had mum, dad, five kids, and two lodgers in a terraced house.

We spent the evening sat outside the pub, remember that waft of heat and small of beer when the door opened.

We dreaded getting up, on a snowswept morning to give dads car a bump start.

We looked forward all week to dad bringing home a 'wagon wheel' from the pub on sunday night.

We had nothing.

But we had everything.

[charmaine]

All the above makes me glad i was born in 67 , until i realise how old i am  lol.

[RED-DOG]

Eh? I still do all that stuff!

[RED-DOG]

All the above makes me glad i was born in 67 , until i realise how old i am  lol.

02/03/1958

(The year of the dog)

[suzanne]

We came down in the morning and got dressed in frount of a three bar fire

That was daft...you should of did what I did and got dressed under the blankets. 

[Karabiner]

Get us a few wagon wheels please Tom, I used to like them 

[thetank]

We went shoplifting after school.

Those were the days.

Bloomin video cameras and "only one schoolchild in the shop at any time" rules. Kids have got to pay for stuff now, what a joke.

We've had to resort to pickpocketing instead.

[Karabiner]

When I saw that Tank had posted I was expecting to hear that

Wagon Wheels were freely available deep fried in all good Scottish chippies 

[Newmanseye]

When I saw that Tank had posted I was expecting to hear that

Wagon Wheels were freely available deep fried in all good Scottish chippies 

 

Urban myth that one

Although the deep fried jaffa cakes were great.

[Karabiner]

Okay I admit "freely available" was a bit OTT 

[charmaine]

"We spent the evening sat outside the pub, remember that waft of heat and small of beer when the door opened " dad used to bring us out a bottle of coke and packet of crisps , i loved those loooong days outside the Yorkshire Gray lol.

[sharpy]

We had nothing.

But we had everything.

Too True   Too True

 Wasn't it great

[RED-DOG]

We played on building sites, fell meny floors through scaffolding.

We climbed trees, and fell out, or avoided our friends chucking stones at us.

We played 15 a side football over the summer hols,and kept records or the results.

We played hookey from school, and rode the trains all day for nothing.

We got drunk on quarter bottles of bacardi mixed with bottle of coke,and were brought home by the local cops.

We got beaten black and blue, by our parents, yet still loved them to pieces.

We knew who all the 'funny men were' and just avoided them, and kept an eye out for our mates.

we had fights.

We went shoplifting after school.

we fumbled in the dark with our mates sister, listerning to 'Band of gold'

We watched what dad wanted to on the telly,except for Top of the pops, which he would let us see, so he could ogle BABS out of 'Pans people'

We stayed out all night in the graveyard, but put the willies up each other.

We played on '  the swings' includeing the whiches hat the roundabout the big slide etc.

We played 40 man british bulldog.

We went round jonny moufarge's mums flat, who although she had no furniture, or carpets,we would tuck into homemade apple pie.

We went to saturday morming pictures.

Later we went to sat morning Top rank, whare we slow danced with a girl.

Later still. We found PUNK. (by the way Anarcy in the UK, Sex pistols,was released 30 years ago this week.)

We did a Paper round,and knicked ciggies and sweets from old Mr barnet.

We got the cane........at 9 years old.

We found stuff on demolision sites,and we built camps.

We came down in the morning and got dressed in frount of a three bar fire (All three of my brothers)

We slept with our brother till we were 15.

We had mum, dad, five kids, and two lodgers in a terraced house.

We spent the evening sat outside the pub, remember that waft of heat and small of beer when the door opened.

We dreaded getting up, on a snowswept morning to give dads car a bump start.

We looked forward all week to dad bringing home a 'wagon wheel' from the pub on sunday night.

We had nothing.

But we had everything.

What an absolutely fantastic post, I read it with a lump in my throat and a smile on my face

We were the lucky ones Eric, I want to go around again