🚀 go-pugleaf

> People over 35 should be dead:
>
>  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 seat
> belts 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 dealwith 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 the 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 (or almost)!
> 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.
> Kind of makes you want to run through the house with
> scissors?
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