Pixies Place Forums - Safety????

I'll be damned if this isn't the truth.

> TO THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 30's 40's, 50's, 60's and
> 70's
>
> First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked
> and/or drank while they carried us.
>
> They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't
> get tested for diabetes.
>
> After that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with
> bright colored 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 children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts
> or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm
> day was always a special treat. Even being pulled
> behind a car on a sled....
>
> 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, bread and butter and drank soda pop
> with sugar in it, 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 99 channels on cable, no video
> tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no
> personal computers, no internet or internet chat
> rooms, sometimes, no TV..........WE HAD FRIENDS and
> we went outside and found them!
>
> We fell out of trees, got cut,! broke b ones and teeth
> and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
>
> We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate
> worms and dirt and although we were told it would
> happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the
> worms live in us forever.
>
> 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!
>
> This generation has 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!
>
> And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS! Please pass
> this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as
> kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated
> our lives for our own good.
>
> Kind of makes you want to run through the house with
> scissors, doesn't it?!

One of my Grandsons,wears more equipment,to ride his bicycle,then I did,to
ride my motorcycle.I have been riding for over 46yrs,& I lived thru it! Irish :)