Re: OT: Teenage Labor Laws

Posted by George in Biloxi on March 02, 2005 at 07:23:16 from (66.255.189.114):

In Reply to: OT: Teenage Labor Laws posted by Rauville on March 01, 2005 at 16:07:48:

This was e-mailed to me, thought I would share.

People over 30 should be dead. Here's why.

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 probably
shouldn't
have survived.

Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.

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 seatbelts or air bags.
Riding in
the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

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

Horrors!

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar
in it,
but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

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

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.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day , as long as we
were
back when the street lights came on .

No one was able to reach us all day.

NO CELL PHONES!!!!!

Unthinkable!

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at
all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound,
personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms .

We had friends! We went outside and found them. We played dodge ball,
and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.

We fell out of trees , got cut and broke bones and teeth , and there
were
no lawsuits from these accidents.They were accidents. No one was to
blame
but us.
Remember accidents?

We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and
learned
to get over it.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and 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.

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.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who
didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and
were held back to repeat the same grade.

Horrors!

Tests were not adjusted for any reason. Our actions were our own.
Consequences were expected. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we
broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine
that!

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're one of them! Congratulations!

Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids,
before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good
!!!!!

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