Jools x


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From: wayne.geater@btinternet.com
To: wayne.geater@btinternet.com
Subject: FW: Enjoy This... I can relate to this
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:07:44 +0100








CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE


1920's, 30's 40's, 50's(Bulldog), 60's, 70's and 80's !



First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they 
carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and 
processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or 
cervical cancer.

Then 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 or shoes, 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 Bakkie on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, 
KFC, Steers, Nandos.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, 
somehow we didn't starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE 
actually died from this.

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and 
buy Chappies, Wilson 's Toffees, Wicks Bubble Gum and some crackers to blow 
up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks 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. We built tree houses and 
cubby houses and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 
99 channels on DSTV, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile 
phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet 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.

Only girls had pierced ears!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us 
forever.

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time.......no 
really!

We were given pellet guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays!!

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang 
the bell, or just yelled for them!

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!

RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who 
didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into 
the team was based on MERIT AND NOT DUE TO BLACKMAIL, THREATS AND GUILT FROM 
THE PAST..... strange but true!

Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather staps and bully's 
always ruled the playground at school.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law!

Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like "Kiora" and 
"Blade" and "Ridge" and "Vanilla"

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers 
and inventors ever!

The past 70 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!

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 our lives for our own 
good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave 
their parents were.


PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age anymore




Jools x




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From: wayne.geater@btinternet.com
To: wayne.geater@btinternet.com
Subject: FW: Enjoy This... I can relate to this
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:07:44 +0100









CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE


1920's, 30's 40's, 50's(Bulldog), 60's, 70's and 80's !



First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they 
carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and 
processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or 
cervical cancer.

Then 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 or shoes, 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 Bakkie on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, 
KFC, Steers, Nandos.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, 
somehow we didn't starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE 
actually died from this.

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and 
buy Chappies, Wilson 's Toffees, Wicks Bubble Gum and some crackers to blow 
up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks 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. We built tree houses and 
cubby houses and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 
99 channels on DSTV, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile 
phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet 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.

Only girls had pierced ears!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us 
forever.

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time.......no 
really!

We were given pellet guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays!!

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang 
the bell, or just yelled for them!

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!

RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who 
didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into 
the team was based on MERIT AND NOT DUE TO BLACKMAIL, THREATS AND GUILT FROM 
THE PAST..... strange but true!

Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather staps and bully's 
always ruled the playground at school.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law!

Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like "Kiora" and 
"Blade" and "Ridge" and "Vanilla"

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers 
and inventors ever!

The past 70 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!

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 our lives for our own 
good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave 
their parents were.


PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age anymore