Are we lucky to be alive........?!
 

:D According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 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 pots & 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 pop 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 Internet chat rooms.
We had friends we went outside and found them.
We played Kerby and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt. We fell out of trees, got cuts and broke bones but there were no law suits.
We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents
We played knock-and-run and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.
We walked to friend's homes. We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mum or dad 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.

Now let's check if we're getting old... :D
1.. You understand what was written above and you smile.
2.. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.
3.. Your friends are getting married/already married.
4.. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.
5.. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6.. You remember watching Dirty Den in East Enders the first time around.
7.. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old days, repeating again all the fun you had experienced together Hmmmmm....... :beer:

Re: Are we lucky to be alive........?!
 

How true is that :D

You forgot one thing which I've noticed recently - buying birthday cards for friends, I'm now bulk buying the "It's your 40th" or "It's your 50th" cards ;)

Sasha :)

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Don't forget the "it's not like it was in my day". The girls shut us up when we reminise (?) - oh no not another black and white story :D

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aaaaahhhhhhhh those were the days, endless summers, gonna cry now :)

Sel x

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GOD! i feel really old know,are you supposed to cheering us up or what, think a feel a drink coming on.

by the way what about shouting up to your teenage daughters bedroom and telling her to turn her music down, and realising that your parents did that to you :scared:

tracey.

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We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
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Now that made me smile and a little sad at the same time, I remember it so well, we called ourselves 'The Gang' :eek: and actually there was about 14 of us, but NEVER, NEVER caused any trouble. We used to pack picnics and go off for the day on our 'racers'.........geeze I feel old.
Please forgive me, been unpacking all our stuff today, which I have found quite emotional.

Jill

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Wagon Wheels were bigger when you where a kid! :p
and you could buy a couple of blackjacks for 1/2p :D

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and dont forget the friut salads.

tracey.

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And it was always sunny during the summer holidays - never rained and we didn't have hosepipe bans - well not until 1976 anyway

Watched black and white tv and never wondered what the colours were supposed to be :confused:

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And sweet Cigarettes, when snicker was a marathon! :)

And when you were a kid you were not alowed in the pub and had to sit outside with a bottle of pop and a packet of crisps! :beer:

Sam

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We used to play french skipping with a piece of elastic and two ball against the wall :D

tracey

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And the bottle of pop (girl next door, old mother riley.....) had a paper straw that lasted for about a minute :D

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MMMmmm, sherbet dips :)

tracey.

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There was a big square out the front of our house, about the size of a small playground where all the kid played, there and in the street around it! I tried my first fag in an area called "the garages" there! :rolleyes:

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We used to watch banana splits and tiswas on a saturday morning,boy havent times changed. :rolleyes:

tracey.