Heelychat, the forum for heelys, the shoes with wheels - View topic - Congrats to hose Born 1930-1979

Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 76 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

***The wife forwarded this to me this morning... thought it was cool***

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED 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 were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored 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 infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up 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 cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, 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 fell out of trees, got cut, 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 were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house 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. Imagine that!!

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

These generations have 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!

If 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 lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good. While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

Team Heelys - SoCal Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: -123845

i read this email. :]

Team Heelys - Midwest Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 8388607

yah .. im not a big fan of mud pies .. 90's children!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

90's kids all the way!

remember legends of the hidden temple?

doug?

cat dog?

doubledare 200?

kenan and kel?

wishbone?

you remember dreaming to be on a Nickelodeon game show: Double Dare, Nick Arcade, GUTS, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Fun House, Figure It Out, and all the other game shows you were too small or far away for

the first place that started nickelodeons deadly slimeing's "You cant do that on television!"

back when most all of nicks shows were filmed in orlando.

power rangers were actually cool to talk about?

ending almost every sentence in the 1st grade, with the word "psych"?

if you remember this then you pwn.
"Miss Susie had a steam boat, the steam boat had a bell..miss suzie went to heaven the steamboat went to hell_o operator please give me number 9 and if you disnconnect me i'll kick you from behind the fridgerator, there was a piece of glass, miss suzie sat upon it and broke her little ass_k me no more questions, please tell me no more lies the boys are in the bathroom zipping up their flies, are in the cornfield the bees are in their hives .......................... miss suzie and her boyfriend are kissing in the D-A-R-K- D-A-R-K D-A-R-K dark dark dar dar da dark darker then the ocean, darker then the sea....." hahah i got bored typing that

you remember that "How Rude!" comes from Stephanie from "Full House"

You remember reading "Goosebumps" and actually being spooked out

you remember when where in the world is Carmen San Diego? was both a game and a TV game show. (weekdays at 5 XD i remember the theme song!)

You always wanted to send in a tape to America's Funniest Home Videos... but never taped anything funny.

You played and/or collected "Pogs"

You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere

You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"

"if you like it so much, then why dont you marry it!" nuf said.

hahah who doesnt remember this "Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black, with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back, back" SHE ASKED HER MOTHER MOTHER MOTHER FOR FIFTY CENTS CENTS CENTS TO SEE THE ELEPHANTS PHANTS PHANTS JUMP OVER THE FENCE THE FENCE THE FENCE
he jumped so high high high he touched the sky sky sky and he didnt come back back back til the forth of july ly ly he jumped so low ow ow he stubbed his toe toe toe and thats the end end end of the elephants show show show"

and watch out in kindergarten, cause girls had cooties so you had to get your cootie shot

"circle circle dot dot now you got your cootie shot" XD

back when selena and tupac were alive.

Talk to da hand cause the face dont care.

the micky D's play place was the only reason you ate macdonalds

"hey macarena...GUWAH!" XD

"the chicken dance" at school dances XD

all the girls had lisa frank school supplies and EVERYONE saved up for a furby

those were da days.

Team Heelys - SoCal Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: -123845

Team Heelys - SoCal Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: -123845

Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 76 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

wow... that makes me happy I wasnt born in the 90s.... phew!

And meanwhile, us early 80's kids are left alone, in the cold, with nothing but Transformers, MC Hammer, and the original Sonic cartoons to soothe our souls.

yeah, it was in the midwest. and if you go to the NGAS channel you can still watch, GUTS, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Double Dare 2000, and all of those...haha they still have the heroes of the game commercials too. =]

Team Heelys - SoCal Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: -123845

D'oh. I think "Old man reminiscing" and I think "Deez". Whoops.