Thought you might find this funny!

[Happeh Gurl C:]

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.

When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and
fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels. As children, we would ride
in cars with no seat belts or airbags - riding in the passenger seat
was a treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle
and it tasted the same.

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 shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and
no-one actually died from this. We would spend hours building go-carts
out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out
we forgot the brakes. 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 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
friends - we went outside and found them. 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 had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.
We played chap-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the
owners catching us. We walked to friends' homes. 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.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in packs
of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. 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. We had freedom, failure, success and
responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. 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 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'timagine how this fat guy
could be a god of dance. They believe that Charlie's Angels and
Mission Impossible are films fromlast 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