Any wrinklies about?

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their colour, choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their colour is unthinkable. 
Anon

TO  ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN 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 carried us.
 
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a ca n, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our cots were covered with bright coloured 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 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 chocolate biscuits, white bread and real butter and drank orange squash 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, i-pods, X-boxes, no video games, no 99 channels on Sky, no DVDs, 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, cut ourselves, 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 had spud guns, toy guns and cap guns, and didn't grow up into gun toting maniacs. We made up  games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we didn't poke out any eyes.

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

The local soccer team had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!  We supported the local team, not Man Utd, and only had a scarf to take to the match, not the whole home strip.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.   They actually sided with the law and gave us a clout when we got home as well!

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!  

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the solicitors 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.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house while carrying a pair of scissors, doesn't it?!  

P S -The big type is because your eyes don't work too well at your age!