[guide.chat] Fw: We Was Brung up Proper
- From: "Sally" <se.wooller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 18:14:30 +0100
Hi Scott,
Your email today reminded me to send the forward . It's amazing how much we
did, quite naturally, without really taking note, of what could happen. Mind
you, if that had been the case, look how much we would have missed.
TTFN
Sally
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Wooller - Email Address: c.wooller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 31/05/2010 23:09
Sent To: Sal - Email Address: se.wooller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Fw: We Was Brung up Proper
WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER !!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1940's,1950's,1960's and 1970's
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 or cervical
cancer.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured
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, the risks 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 tofish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC,
Subway , Chinese, Thai or Indian.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on a Sunday,
somehow 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.
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 video games at all,
no 1000 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 Easter time...
We were given air guns, catapults & Pocket Knives 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 because we didn't
need to keep up with the Jones's!
Not everyone made the rugby/football/cricket/netball 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 gym shoes and throw the blackboard
rubber at us if they thought we weren't concentrating .
We can string sentences together and spell and have proper conversations
because of a good, solid three R's education.
Our parents would tell us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road.
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 !
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