<br />Subject: Over 35<br /><br />People over 35 should be dead.<br />Here's why <br /><br />According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived.<br /><br />Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.<br /><br />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.)<br /><br />As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or air bags.<br /><br />Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.<br /><br />We drank water from the garden hose and not from<br />a bottle.<br /><br />Horrors!<br /><br />We ate cakes, bread and butter, and drank colddrinks with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.<br /><br />We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.<br /><br />We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode 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.<br /><br />We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.<br /><br />No one was able to reach us all day!.<br /><br />NO CELL PHONES!!!!!<br /><br />Unthinkable!<br /><br />We did not have Play stations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on DSTV, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.<br /><br />We had friends!<br /><br />We went outside and found them.<br /><br />We played Red Rover, and sometimes, the tackles would really hurt.<br /><br />We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and<br />teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember accidents?<br /><br />We had fights and punched each other and got black<br />and blue and learned to get over it.<br /><br />We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and<br />ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.<br /><br />We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them.<br /><br />Rugby, soccer and cricket had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment!<br /><br />Some students weren't as smart as others, so they<br />failed a standard and were held back to repeat at the same standard.<br /><br />Horrors!<br /><br />Tests were not adjusted for any reason.<br /><br />Our actions were our own.<br /><br />Consequences were expected.<br /><br />The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law.<br /><br />Imagine that!<br /><br />This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever.<br /><br />The past 50 years have been an explosion of<br />innovation and new ideas.<br /><br />We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.<br /><br />And you're one of them!<br /><br />Congratulations!<br /><br />
Thats what happens when you have an over abundance of attorneys. They gotta have work to, but I don't need protected from myself. I wish they would stop.
