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Oh how I laughed at the things we used to do i remember most of them. My sister and I used to walk to Victoria Park in east London and usually i was the eldest at the age of ten! I would wheel a pram with a couple of the younger childre, my sister who would have been around 3 would hld hands with two other friends matrilyn and her sister and we had bread and butter sandwhiches and bottles of water for our picnic. We were always safe and had a great time. we were forbidde to walk along side the canal so of course we had to accept the challenge and NEVER fell in. We played in the bombed out buildings and never came to harm ourselves but about a mile away two young boys were killed.
All in all though we were street wise and neighbours looked out for us all.
Bridget
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that was ABSOLUTLEY Bl***y BRILLIANT Bob,......how true and well said.
Gwen x
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Yes me too Bob, my mother never smoked or drank either,but the rest of it is so true.
Sucking lead soldiers was a treat, and my OH used to play with mercury which his father brought home from work.
Both in our 70's so not bad.
Mo
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does this one apply? also.....
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were 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 or shoes, not to mention, therisks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops,McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Nandos.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open onthe weekends, s omehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, 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 or the cows came home.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, X-boxes, no videogames at all, no 999 channels on SKY, no video/dvd films,
no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet 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.
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Eastertime...
We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on
MERIT
Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gymshoes and bully's always ruled the playground at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And 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 our lives for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
PS - The big type was BIG because your eyes are not too good at your age anymore!!
Most of that applies to me, except My Mum NEVER drank or smoked.
and MY Cot was Varnished, and yes it DID have stripes where I'd Gnawed on it!
our teacher was a crack shot with a piece of chalk, and deadly with the blackboard Eraser
the air gun I got, I got by swapping my roller skates,
and made my own catapult! a bit of tree and some rubber from a car inner tube......
Bob
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Scotch and Water
> Scotch with two drops of water.
>
> A lady goes to the bar on a cruise ship and orders a
> Scotch with two drops of water. As the bartender
> gives her the drink she says,
>
>
> 'I'm on this cruise to celebrate my 80th birthday and it's
> today...'
>
> The bartender says, 'Well, since it's
> your birthday, I'll buy you a drink. In
> fact, this one is on me.'
>
> As the woman finishes
> her drink, the woman to her right says, 'I would like to
> buy you a drink, too.'
>
> The old woman says,
> 'Thank you. Bartender, I want a Scotch with two
> drops of water.'
>
> 'Coming up,' says the bartender
>
>
> As she finishes that drink, the man to her left
> says, 'I would like to buy you one, too.'
>
> The old woman says, 'Thank you. Bartender, I want
> another Scotch with two drops of water.'
>
> 'Coming right up,' the bartender says.
>
> As he gives her the drink, he says, 'Ma'am, I'm dying of
> curiosity. Why the Scotch with only two drops of
> water?'
>
> The old woman replies, 'Sonny, when
> you're my age, you've learned how to hold your liquor.
> Holding your water, however, is a whole other
> issue.'
>
>
> 'OLD'
> IS WHEN..
> Your
> sweetie says, 'Let's go upstairs
> and make love,'
> and you answer,
> 'Pick one; I can't do
> both!'
>
>
> 'OLD'
> IS WHEN...
> Your
> friends compliment you
> on your new alligator shoes
>
> and you're barefoot.
>
>
> 'OLD'
> IS WHEN...
> A
> sexy babe catches your fancy
> and your pacemaker
> opens the garage door,
>
> 'OLD'
> IS WHEN...
> Going
> braless
> pulls all the wrinkles out of your face.
>
>
> 'OLD'
> IS WHEN...
> You
> don't care where your spouse goes,
> just as long as
> you don't have to go along.
>
> 'OLD'
> IS WHEN...
> You
> are cautioned to slow down by the doctor instead of by
> the police
>
> 'OLD'
> IS WHEN. ..
>
> 'Getting
> a little action'
> means you don't need to take any
> fiber today.
>
> 'OLD'
> IS WHEN...
> 'Getting
> lucky' means you find your car
> in the parking lot.
>
>
> 'OLD'
> IS WHEN...
> An
> 'all nighter' means not getting up
> to use the
> bathroom.
>
> AND
>
> 'OLD'
> IS WHEN...
> You
> are not sure these are jokes
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