[Dixielandjazz] How In The World Did We Survive??

[Pepett@aol.com]

Can we REALLY argue with most of the following??AND please excuse duplicate 
postings!!  
    

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 painted with bright colored lead based paint. We often 
chewed on the crib, ingesting the paint. 

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets,

 And when we rode our bikes we had no helmets.
 
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
 
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 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.
 
We played dodgeball and sometimes the ball would really hurt.
 
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda, but we were never 
over weight; we were always outside playing. 

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.
 
That generation produced some of the greatest risk-takers and problem 
solvers. 

We had the freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how 
to deal with it all. 

THINK ABOUT IT!!!



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