TyperwriterBORN BEFORE 1989?

If measuring by today’s regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 60′s, 70′s and early 80′s probably shouldn’t have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly colored lead-based paint.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans, jars and plates.

As underage children by today’s standard, we would ride in cars without wearing seat belts; riding in the passenger seat in front was a real treat.

We drank water from the garden hose, which tasted very good.

We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it without getting overweight, because we were always playing outside.

We shared a drink in one bottle with many other friends and found no one actually died from this.

We would leave home in the morning then play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No adults were able to reach us. They didn’t mind either.

We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 100’s channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.

We didn’t have Bakugans or transformers, but didn’t learn violence from those either.

We did have friends, lots of friends – we found them outside, in neighborhoods, in parks.

We did fall out of trees, fall on street, get cut and break bones but we were interested in lawsuits..

We walked to friends’ homes, even walked to schools.

We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.

We wouldn’t have a chance for parents to bail us out if we broke a law.

The generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors.
And you’re one of them.

Congratulations!

Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for “our own good”.

For those of you who aren’t old enough, thought you might like to read about us.

This is surprisingly frightening; and it might put a smile on your face.

The majority of students in universities today were born in 1989.
The Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel.
They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda
Carlisle.

For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.

AIDS has existed since they were born.

CD’s have existed since they were born.

Michael Jackson has always been white.

To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can’t  imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance.

They believe that Charlie’s Angels and Mission Impossible are films from last year.

They can never imagine life before computers.

They’ll never have pretended to be the A-Team, the Dukes of Hazard or the Famous Five.
They can’t believe a black and white television ever existed.

And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone.

Now let’s check if we’re getting old:

1. You understand what was written above and you smile.

2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.

3. Your friends are getting married or have already married or got divorced.

4. You are always surprised to see small children playing cheerfully with computers.

5. When seeing small children carrying mobile phones, you shake your head.

6. Having read this, you are thinking of forwarding it to some other friends because you think they will like it too.

Yes, you’re Getting old.