It is heck getting older....Venting rant

[luke]

Harlan

AND.... marital aids? (grin

From EXPERIENCE????????

[ChEAr$]

From EXPERIENCE????????

Naw! Not as long as I have my zinc supplement pills.

[luke]

or

Naw! Not as long as I have my zinc supplement pills.

little BLUE pills?? haha

[ChEAr$]

nope,

little BLUE pills?? haha

don't need 'em.

[abby]

I can't see without reading glasses, and cannot seem to get the correct prescription for the graduated bifocals! These swirly light bulbs don't seem to give off enough light. I'm tired of the super tiny print on W2s and other forms. Now, I can't seem to hear the TV without it blasting really loud, and the phone doesn't seem loud enough either. Can't hear Hubby at all unless he's facing me when he's talking. Can't eat onions or fried foods without suffering some real gastric distress. Can't fall asleep. Everything hurts. Tinnitus has set in and there's this weird tinkling sound in my ear. Bloodwork and all other medical tests show I'm in great health. This just sucks. Can't wait for the incontinence or whatever other inconvenient horror awaits. Happy effing Monday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPdOTbjqIrU

You made me think of this
Good times, good times

[BOB W]

Here is the major piece of an email I received. It is just a reminder that us "old coots" have something over the youngsters of today.


Those of You Born 1930 - 1979

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-base paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps, not helmets on our heads.

As infants & children,
We would ride in cars with no car seats,
No booster seats, no seat belts,
and no air bags

Riding in the back of a pick-up truck or the family station wagon 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, real butter and bacon.
We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar.
And, we weren't overweight.
WHY?

Because we were
Always outside playing...that's why!

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 them 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 and X-boxes.
There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable,
No video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's,
No cell phones,
No personal computers, no Internet and no 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 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, played hop scotch, kick ball and 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 ?

[veritas]

Thanks for the post Bob W

that was my childhood.

I remember once sitting in the passenger seat of my mom's 55 Buick when she suddenly had to slam on the brakes and my head hit the dash.

Didn't hurt the dashboard a bit.

[BOB W]

that was my childhood.

I remember once sitting in the passenger seat of my mom's 55 Buick when she suddenly had to slam on the brakes and my head hit the dash.

Didn't hurt the dashboard a bit.

Wasn't those dashboards METAL?

[veritas]

Heavy guage

Wasn't those dashboards METAL?

All American Steel.

[BOB W]

All American Steel.

My brother (7 years older than me) had a Ford coup with a Rumble Seat. Why don't they have them any more? I would never need a seat belt when I sat in it because my white knuckles did a great job hanging on.

[veritas]

Another memory- Sort of

Riding home from Tradewell with a gallon of milk on my 3 speed Western Auto. Woke up on the pavement sometime later. Didn't hurt the telephone pole a bit.

[BOB W]

I use to delivery newspapers so I had a BIG basket on my bike. Picking up milk and such was easy. I'm trying to remember when I stopped riding my bike and started walking everyplace. Must of been when I got my first car at 16. That was when I stopped hanging out at the school yard. But I remember walking alot too....???

[kpangelinan]

Here is the major piece of an email I received. It is just a reminder that us "old coots" have something over the youngsters of today.


Those of You Born 1930 - 1979

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-base paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps, not helmets on our heads.

As infants & children,
We would ride in cars with no car seats,
No booster seats, no seat belts,
and no air bags

Riding in the back of a pick-up truck or the family station wagon 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, real butter and bacon.
We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar.
And, we weren't overweight.
WHY?

Because we were
Always outside playing...that's why!

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 them 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 and X-boxes.
There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable,
No video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's,
No cell phones,
No personal computers, no Internet and no 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 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, played hop scotch, kick ball and 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 ?

Pretty cool stuff.......times sure have changed and for the worse IMO....

[BOB W]

If a parent today let their kids do what we did, they would be put in jail and we would be in a foster home. So much for being a free spirit and learning by OUR mistakes. Just to let you know, 1954>1962 was my teen years.

[kpangelinan]

If a parent today let their kids do what we did, they would be put in jail and we would be in a foster home. So much for being a free spirit and learning by OUR mistakes.

Yup, they're trying to make it illegal to spank.....OK....just one of many things.....