Reading It Made Me Smile
The Following passage is sent by L from my poly. Although not everything related to me (think should be refering in US) but i had a wonderful childhood where moblie phones were luxuries, we had bicycle gang, our playground were covered with sands (no padded ground), the slides were 3 to 5 metres high and of cos we ran around bare-footed.
Ppl, enjoy...
The red wordings are added by me.
Dear Friends,
Read at least twice to get the full pic/meaning, I agree with the below that
Kids today are getting too pampered. And also I am getting old...enjoy reading..
According to 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 coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
All right to play with my Dad's fish tank but was caned like hell because all the fish died
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels.
Yup, no helmets, just flip-flops but i didn't have fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on mywheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags - riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We too
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.
We have no garden hose hanging around our void decks.
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We ate and drank all those but not everyone were fit.
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this.
We shared everything from a can drinks to a stick of Pocky.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went topspeed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.
We didn't build go-carts but we drew "Hopscotch" on the ground and used hundreds of rubber bands to make skipping ropes to play "Zero-point".
After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.
We did leave home early and reach home before dark but our parents knew where we are because our places we could go, was limited.
We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.
We had Nintendo and Sega.
We had friends - we went outside and found them.
We had friends at every block.
We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!
We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law suits.
We don't break our bones so easily.
We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.
We had fist fights and our parents will quarrel.
We played chap-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.
We walked to friends' homes.
Yup.
We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.
Only when late for school
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
We had bicycle gang of the whole neighbourhood.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...They actually sided with the law.
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever.
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
I'm neither risk-taker nor problem solver or inventor.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
.... in Singapore?
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 my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a smile on your face: The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986........They are called youth.
They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children and the version of 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, RedHand Gang or the Famous Five.
They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It or Why Don't You.
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/already married.
4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers
5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6. You remember watching Dirty Den in EastEnders the first time around
7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good Old days, repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together.
8. Having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some Other friends because you think they will like it too...
Yes, you're getting old!!!
Ppl, enjoy...
The red wordings are added by me.
Dear Friends,
Read at least twice to get the full pic/meaning, I agree with the below that
Kids today are getting too pampered. And also I am getting old...enjoy reading..
According to 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 coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
All right to play with my Dad's fish tank but was caned like hell because all the fish died
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels.
Yup, no helmets, just flip-flops but i didn't have fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on mywheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags - riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We too
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.
We have no garden hose hanging around our void decks.
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We ate and drank all those but not everyone were fit.
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this.
We shared everything from a can drinks to a stick of Pocky.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went topspeed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.
We didn't build go-carts but we drew "Hopscotch" on the ground and used hundreds of rubber bands to make skipping ropes to play "Zero-point".
After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.
We did leave home early and reach home before dark but our parents knew where we are because our places we could go, was limited.
We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.
We had Nintendo and Sega.
We had friends - we went outside and found them.
We had friends at every block.
We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!
We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law suits.
We don't break our bones so easily.
We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.
We had fist fights and our parents will quarrel.
We played chap-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.
We walked to friends' homes.
Yup.
We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.
Only when late for school
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
We had bicycle gang of the whole neighbourhood.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...They actually sided with the law.
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever.
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
I'm neither risk-taker nor problem solver or inventor.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
.... in Singapore?
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 my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a smile on your face: The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986........They are called youth.
They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children and the version of 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, RedHand Gang or the Famous Five.
They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It or Why Don't You.
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/already married.
4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers
5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6. You remember watching Dirty Den in EastEnders the first time around
7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good Old days, repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together.
8. Having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some Other friends because you think they will like it too...
Yes, you're getting old!!!
posted by Miss Cranky at 4:18 PM
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