Old Fashioned.

[Symonator]

My curfew was the street lights, my mum called my name not my mobile, I played outside with friends not online, if I didn't eat what mum cooked I didn't eat.
Sanitizer didn't exist, but you COULD get your mouth washed out with soap, I rode a bike with no helmet, getting dirty was OK, and neighbours gave a damn as much as your parents did.

Re-post this if you ate Berry's straight out the garden and survived

[InfiniteStates]

There was an excellent email along those lines that went around a while ago. I've tried to find it in Google a few times but failed. It was called something like "congratulations - you survived growing up in the 80s".

If anyone knows what I'm talking about and/or can find it, post it here please.

[DJ-Daz]

My curfew was the street lights, my mum called my name not my mobile, I played outside with friends not online, if I didn't eat what mum cooked I didn't eat.
Sanitizer didn't exist, but you COULD get your mouth washed out with soap, I rode a bike with no helmet, getting dirty was OK, and neighbours gave a damn as much as your parents did.

Re-post this if you ate Berry's straight out the garden and survived

@InfiniteStates
Did it go a little something like this?

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS 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, 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.

Riding in the back of a truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We didn't have sprays/gels/wipes that got rid of 99.9% of germs

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Burger King.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, 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 fruit Spangles 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 scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and cubby houses and played in streams with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no videogames at all, no 999 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound,no mobilephones, 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 Crossed Buns at Easter time....... really!

We were given Spud 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!

Footy had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather staps 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 got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and ' Brooklyn '

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 70 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!

[DJ-Daz]

I got run over twice as a kid, once by a push bike, once by a car.
We made bicylcle ramps out of wood and bricks.
we used to go hiking for hours on end, and our parents never worried, we'd take a pack of sandwiches, a bottle or two of pop, and we'd all share each others food.
We used to play at an old stone quarry, our parents knew, but they didn't stop us.
We used to have races up and down the street, go carts, bikes and legs.
We used to have a playground with a slide that was 30 feet tall, we used to climb all over the frames and play tig (tag or what ever) while climbing on the slide frame. It's gone now - too dangerous.
We used to go to the other villages adventure playgrounds, one even had a massive ZIP line.
friends were the people you did ALL these things with, and came around to your house to keep you entertained when you broke a bone or two.

[InfiniteStates]

Awesome Daz! Yeah, that was it, thanks

[YorkshirePud]

i fell into a rose bush and my dad just laughed

harsh but fair