An email from my mom.....

I enjoyed this and decided to share it with you all =)

People over 35 should be dead.
Here's why ...
According to today's regulatorsand bureaucrats, those of uswho were kids in the 30's, 40's,50's, 60's, or even maybethe early 70's probablyshouldn't have survived.

Our baby cribs were coveredwith bright colored lead-basedpaint.

We had no childproof lidson medicine bottles, doorsor cabinets,
... and when werode our bikes, we had nohelmets.
(Not to mention the riskswe took hitchhiking.)

As children, we would ridein cars with no seatbeltsor air bags.

Riding in the back of a pickuptruck on a warm day wasalways a special treat.

We drank water from thegarden hose and not froma bottle.Horrors!

We ate cupcakes, bread andbutter, and drank soda popwith sugar in it, but we werenever overweight becausewe were always outsideplaying.

We shared one soft drinkwith four friends, from onebottle, and no one actuallydied from this.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scrapsand then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgotthe brakes.

After running into the bushesa few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were backwhen the street lightscame on.

No one was able to reach us all day.

NO CELL PHONES!!!!!

Unthinkable!

We did not have Playstations,Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, videotape movies, surroundsound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internetchat rooms.

We had friends!

We went outside and found them.

We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.

We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

They were accidents.

No one was to blame but us.

Remember accidents?

We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.

We made up games withsticks and tennis balls andate worms, and although we were told it would happen,we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home 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 tolearn to deal with disappointment.

Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and wereheld back to repeat the same grade.

Horrors!

Tests were not adjusted for any reason.

Our actions were our own.

Consequences were expected.The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a lawwas unheard of.

They actually sided with the law.

Imagine that!

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 dealwith it all.

And you're one of them!

Congratulations!

Please pass this on to otherswho have had the luck to growup as kids, before lawyers and government regulated ourlives, for our own good !!!!!

People under 30 are WIMPS !