Down memory lane......

Sunk

Just to cheer you up:D

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

For those of you not born as early as the 70's, please read on because this will be relevant to you as well, by the time you get to the end!

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 tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby 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 van - loose - was always great fun.

We drank water from the garden hosepipe 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 cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop 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, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no text messaging, 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 .

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

Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen , we did not 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!

Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

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!

DON79

:rotfl: Hi Sunk

Thanks for the laugh.

born in 79 but I remember being in my gran's car without seatbelts.

and my dad was a joiner and my sister and I regularly were bunged in the back of the van "loose"! :rotfl:

Tho when I think of my kids now :eek: no way I could do that to them. But then the roads are far more dangerous too!

Played with sticks and tennis balls, built dens out of wood and mud and stuff.

played chap door run in our street

Split my lip and head riding a bike without helmet down a friends close with two steps at the bottom, bike got mangled but hey I survived!


Love your post, great, cheered me up and reminded me of good points of being a child in late 70's.

Sunk

Wow Don my dad was a joiner & I used to roll about in the back of his mk1 ford transit:rotfl:
I was born 68, what fun.
In fact I was re-living my youth a few months back, rolling around in the back of the van.
Got caught by the police & fined, driver got 3points & fined as well.

And no WE weren't rolling around in the back:rotfl:the driver was driving I was doing it on my own.
Oh hell now that sounds worse doesn't it.......:o

blind-as-a-bat_2

Born 67 so , thats my generation i suppose, and boy was it fun:D

Kids today dont know they are born :rotfl:

I will never forget my mums face when i turned up at her work on a saturday night on my bike:D

Trouble is she ran a night club, in a big town at the time, never understood why me, at 14, stopping by to say hello was a big deal:rotfl:

But then after growing up and spending 8 years working in a night club, it probebly wasnt as big a deal as she thought:p :cool:

DON79

Nah sounds like fun! Gotta relive childhood, rely on the good memories etc etc. Pity the police took it so seriously tho!

It's so true tho, you thought nothing of being outside all day, out of your mums sight and she thought nothing of it. we stayed out till it was time for streetlights to come on and nothing happened.

And now, my poor kids probably won't have much freedom like I did when I come to think of it. poor things!

blind-as-a-bat_2

DON79 wrote: »

Nah sounds like fun! Gotta relive childhood, rely on the good memories etc etc. Pity the police took it so seriously tho!

It's so true tho, you thought nothing of being outside all day, out of your mums sight and she thought nothing of it. we stayed out till it was time for streetlights to come on and nothing happened.

And now, my poor kids probably won't have much freedom like I did when I come to think of it. poor things!

I agree, i hardly saw my parents, either i was working, or they where, at 12 i had 3 morning and evening paperounds, so we hardly saw each other, i loved getting on my bike and just riding back then, they had no idea where i got too:eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:

it is a shame that is not possible these days:rolleyes:

DON79

yeah my dad worked loads so we didn't see him much.

We had a ford transit too and he would just put some blankets down in the back of the van for us to sit on til we got a car.

We got a Hillman Hunter, brown colour lovely :rolleyes: with plasticky leather type seats that you would stick to when it was hot in the car.

Then it got traded in and we had a proper mini clubman - red - called Fred!

Shamefully started tradition of naming the family car!

blind-as-a-bat_2

we had a renault 4, the one with the umberella gearstick, i actually learned to drive in one, no wonder i could drive anyting after that:p :rotfl:

DON79

Learnt to drive in one of the first corsa's but my actual first car was a Nova Saloon 1 litre engine, another lovely colour - pea green! :cool: no! not cool! and front seat belts only! None in the back of the car. It would frequently stall at the bottom of hills and always had to start it with the manual choke pulled right out, had fun one winter in scotland, skidding down a big hill in the snow! managed to stop just before collided with a furniture shop window!! :eek:

But I loved it! it was a great car and lasted me for a few years.

Daisy was her name!

sandywindsor

you lot are really lucky!!!
My mum and step-dad had a van with a mattress in the back! As many as 7 of us travelled to butlins (N.Wales) for a day trip...front was as bad where mum sat you could see the road at her feet (rust holes:eek: ) where is Barney rubble when you need him.;)
i used to get travel sick..no air and tiny windows......
Those were the days.....................:D

Sandy
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DON79

Sounds scary! :eek: but then, you probably thought nothing of it at the time but going on holiday!

Used to get made to take these horrible travel sick pills by my mum and dad, yuk yuk yuk! _pale_ If anything, they are what made me ill. Think they were called "Joyrides" or something like that! :rotfl: