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Albert
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From:Sydney
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posted 01-14-2003 09:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Albert     Edit/Delete Message
The wife and daughter are overseas on a trip and here I am home alone thinking about the good old days. Feel free to add your own experience as kids below. It'll be fun.

Albert



I can not believe we did it ! How have we survived?

Were you a kid in 40's 50's 60's or even the 70's ?.
Looking back, it is hard to believe we made it, hard to believe we are still alive.

As kids, remember when we used to travel in cars NOT wearing seat belts. Cars had no air bags. Siting in the cars back seat in a hot summer day used to be a real special experience.

Our beds used to be covered with heaps of happy colours, lead based. There were no
special security caps on medicine bottles, power points or doors and we used to ride our bikes with no helmets on.

Remember when we used to drink water right from the garden hose, not from the bottle ?.

Do you remember how we used to spend hours building timber carts ? how we used to roll down the hill only to discover that we had no brakes. How we installed
hand made brakes only after hitting the bushes ten or more times ?.

Remember when we used to leave home early in the morning and come back only after the street lights have turned on. No one could contact us, we had no mobile phone....how unthinkable.

Remember when we used to fall and brake a bone or two, how we used to fight and break a tooth or two, with no lawsuits to follow. They were all just accidents, no one to blame, only ourselves. Remember ? accidents ? !!. And we got over it.

We used to eat cakes, bread and butter and drink only sugar concentrated drinks ? no one ever got overweight. Remember how we were always playing outside?.

Remember when we used to share a bottle of drink and no one got sick or died from it ?.

Remember how we had no computer or video games, we had no 500 TV channels, we had no video movies, no PCs, no mobile phones or internet chats. WE HAD FRIENDS !. We used to get outside and find them. We used to ride a bicycle together with them. We used to go to their home, ring the door bell or just knock and sit for hours and talk with them.
Imagine, without asking for our parents permission, us, out there alone in the "cruel" "cold world" with no one to watch over us. How did we do it ?

Remember how we used to invent games? With sticks and tennis balls.
Remember how we used to bet about "who is capable of eating a worm"?, and we did it although our parents warned us not to, remember how they used to tell us that the worms will stay in our stomach forever?. The worms did not stay in our stomach forever!.

Remember how we all tried to get into the baseball and basketball team and not all made it?. Those who did not make it just got over it.
Remember when not all students were smart and some stayed in the same grade for another year?. Tests were never custom designed no matter what the reason is.

Our deeds were OUR DEEDS, we knew how to live with them and bear the consequences. There was no one for us to hide behind. To think that our parents would rescue us if we got in troubles with the law was unheard of. Can you imagine? Our parents actually heed and were very supportive of the laws.

This generation has produced some of the greatest risk taking persons, problem solvers and inventors. The last 50 years has brought to the world an explosion of scientific breakthroughs, new opinions and theories.

We used to have REAL freedom of movement and ability to act, we had failures and success and RESPONSIBILITY. And we knew how to get over them all, gently but SURELY !.

Pass this to those who were not so lucky to grow up as KIDS, like we did before lawyers and governments started taking control of our lives...telling us that it is only for our own good.

[This message has been edited by Albert (edited 01-16-2003).]

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Pauline
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posted 01-15-2003 07:05 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Pauline     Edit/Delete Message
Albert, Albert, Albert, miss them alot don't ch'a???? LOL!!

Ok, you got me thinking; how bout,
when we danced in the rain in the street gutters, sat in it, laughed like crazy, didn't worry about disease, etc, we had a ball;
went everywhere with our dog and best friend(s);
mothers *volunteered* us for any and every errand in the neighborhood (I'm still wondering why on this one....);
went trick-or-treating and got TONS of good candy, had to go home several times to empty and no harm then;
Hated my brother for his teasing me, yet, if someone were to hurt me or pose a threat, he was there to fight for me;
washing a car in my teens didn't seem to take so long....LOL!!
We are aging like fine wine I'd say!! Have a great day Albert!

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Albert
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posted 01-16-2003 03:39 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Albert     Edit/Delete Message
Hi Pauline,

Always a pleasure to read your replies.

I sure did!...i look at what kids are busy with these days and can’t stop
thinking of just how much they are missing. They wouldn’t have a clue.
We live In a plastic kind of controlled society/environment and I keep asking
myself...well is it better to the days when we used to be kids?...can’t say that
it is. Can’t say that it is getting better. The exact opposite...

Have a glorious day Pauline, fine wine indeed !!

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Albert
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posted 01-16-2003 04:11 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Albert     Edit/Delete Message
Ho and I forgot to mention re: Pets.

We used to have a dog in the neighbourhood (28 years ago). This dog did not belong to anyone. He was just kind of the neighbourhood dog. Everyone used to feed him and play with him etc. He never received any injections, was never de-sexed, in his all life time he never visited any vet and was eating just about anything. Yes, cocked chicken included. He died at 14 years of age and was very healthy throughout his all life. Unknown cross breed…..bit bigger then a poodle…kind of a terrier. Liked chasing cats up the tree

Thinking back I really find it amazing!

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Doc Helladay
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posted 01-16-2003 06:36 AM           Edit/Delete Message
Good Post, took me 2 days to think about "when we were kids" and getting old. New comercialhere in the states, 2 young couples driving in a neighborhood all they see is kids kids kids...then as they are leaving town a new sign on road that says "OLD AGE AHEAD" they turned that car around really fast, maybe you've seen it Pauline? I remember that as kids we had to find things to keep us busy, I must of been lil too creative I think. But I had to find something to do. Well I will tell only 1 story in this post, my mother was a piano teacher in the afternoons after I got home from school. WELL I decided to GO FISHING. Mom had a beatiful rose garden which had cement around the edge so it HELD WATER. I went and found a stick and some of grandmas knitting thread to make the fishing pole.Thought eww I need one more thing..Mom had a aquarium, I will just scoop them up and take them out to rose bed and I will fish them all back out. Well I went to get more fish and came back and I come back to a bunch of mud..OH MY what have I done.. I was so upset first that I kilt my mothers fish and I felt so bad cuz I loved them too..well I kept my mouth shut not a word..mom gets done teaching dad gets home from work..she is sitting in the kitchen and says to my Dad where are my fish, dad says I dont know, now I am not going to say nothing just act like nothing happened...She made dad look for a hour around that tank like they had jumped out..Well I kept that secret and on the day of her funeral I told her the truth..she talked about those fish I swear for 40 yrs. I learned my lesson that day that is for sure.

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Albert
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posted 01-16-2003 09:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Albert     Edit/Delete Message
Doc, you should have blamed the neighbours cat and get it over and done with...

Which reminds me of a similar story. I was about 12, a very very curios kid. Liked to investigate just about anything and find out how things work from the inside out.

My parents were out one day. My dad had a big clock on the wall, his pride and joy.
I just had to find out how this thing works. What makes the ding dong sound inside.
So there I am with a big screwdriver starting to take the thing apart and investigate.
I suddenly hear my parents car getting into the driveway and I quickly try to put the clock together. I was in such a rush and I’ve put the clock dial up side down (12 become 6 and six become 12) and I quickly hang the thing back on the wall.

You should have seen my fathers face when he looked at the clock wondering why
there was no ding dong at 9 o’clock. HEY THE DIAL IS UP SIDE DOWN. What the
hell happened here ?. Sorry dad I tried to fix it cause the ding dong was off bit.
My mum was laughing so hard. And dad joined us a minute later. He then took the thing and we both started to put the clock together while he goes to lengths explaining me how it all works.

The small bits in life you never ever forget...

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wolf_girl_79
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posted 08-27-2003 12:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for wolf_girl_79     Edit/Delete Message
wow, you're post really made me think. i am only 24, with 3 kids of my own & looking back, i went through alot of what you mentioned, my kids aren't like that, i have to force them to go outside. they are all wrapped up in the t.v. or playstation, or game boys, you name it, all of our "modern technology" has really put a damper on the great outdoors. good post. makes ya think about the importance of being a kid & letting (or in my case, forcing) your child hood to live on through your children.

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