[StBernard] WE MADE IT!!!!!!!!!

[Westley Annis]

To Those of You Born 1930 - 1979
 
At the end of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno. If you don't
read anything else, please
read what he said.

Very well stated, Mr. Leno.

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 colored lead-base
paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets
and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster
seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.
Riding in the back of a pick- up truck 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, real butter and bacon. We drank
Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight. WHY?
Because we were always outside playing...that's why!  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 them
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 and X-boxes. There were no video games, 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 and no 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 were given BB guns for our
10th birthdays, 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.  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?

The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:


'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding,
severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and
with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a
good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?' 

For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead
and delete this.
For the rest of us...pass this on.

 

Rena