people under 34 are wimps!
just me
it must be meritorious, right?!
Enjoy, Aula
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People Over 34 Should Be Dead, 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 Play stations, 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 innovationand 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 anyone including the government regulated our lives, for our own good
!!!!!
People under 34 are WIMPS !
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I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in
the concrete. It's so heroic. - George Carlin
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just me
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> ROTFL! Meanwhile I must be borderline...I'm 34 ;-).
does that mean your half dead?
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> ok, i know, i know, forwarding stuff and all. But, gee, my *dad* sent it so
> it must be meritorious, right?!
I like it. It touches on a lot of things I've noticed about parenting
after we moved to the US...
Recently the daycare lady told us DS had fallen backwards while sitting on
a kid's chair. It was his own fault, he kept pushing the chair back with
his feet. She was expecting a big scream and lots of tears, instead DS
just said 'Boom!', kept lying down and giggling about it...
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mommy to DS (July '02)
mommy to three tiny angels (28 Oct'03, 17 Feb'04 & 20 May'04)
guardian of DH (33)
Christina
: )
Christina, feeling a little old
mom to DS, 2.75 yrs
just me
Happy Birthday Christina! You semi-wimp! [he he!!]
Enjoy your day, believe me you are not old until you decide you are!
-Aula
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Without hope, the rest is nothing.
Lead Foot Mama
"Christina" <nopen...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'll be 34 in 26 days. Am I still a wimp?
>
> : )
I'll be 34 in 360 days... what about me? :)
Lead Foot Mama
all of that stuff too.
But, I'm also a parent that is trying to raise my kid similar to my parents.
Like tonight - he's got his butt glued to the couch, eyes glued to cartoons
and I make him get up, help me weed the flower gardens and landscaping and
then make him go ride his bike up and down the street for a while.
:)
"just me" <windso'cha...@nospamhere.com> wrote in message
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Marc
Many happy returns JJ
Marc
Mo
> I'll be 34 in 360 days... what about me? :)
Happy belated birthday :-).
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Mo
Mo
> does that mean your half dead?
Well, considering the average lifetime expectancy, I'm nearly halfway
there ;-).
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Mo