AlamoPA Mailing List: Fw: Born 1930 - 1979?

[Sallie Carlson (wacsc11945]

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Kim and Kurt Kneifel <kkneifel [at] countryspeed.com>
To: Sallie Carlson <wacsc11945 [at] yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2016 2:15 PM
Subject: Fw: Born 1930 - 1979?

Here’s one for you and Bill...enjoy

 

From: Harry Kneifel

Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2016 7:17 AM

To: Kurt & Kim Kneifel

Subject: Born 1930 - 1979?

 

Good mornin Brother!

 

Reading this I thought of the 2 of us...... What great times we've shared!

 

Love, H.

Sent from my iPad

 

 

 

No matter what our
kids and the new generation think about us,

WE ARE AWESOME !!!!

 

OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF !!!!

 

 

 

To Those of  Us 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, no air bags, bald
tires and sometimes no brakes.

Riding in the back of a pick- up truck 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 made with Lard, white
bread, real butter and bacon. We drank FLAV- OR- 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 OKAY.

 
  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 Play stations,
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
would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, or just
a bare hand and no one would call child services to report abuse.

  
  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. What can kids today do besides push buttons..  
 

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 ? 
~