Chuckle 1136

Chuckle 1136
(Pat and Judy of Florence OR get today's chuckle thanks!)


~The Good Old Days, Part 2~
(Plus: Today in History, Word for the Day and 6 Differences.)

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

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell 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.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, 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 are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?! ***

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• Today in history
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Word of the Day for Thursday August 17, 2006

fortuitous \for-TOO-uh-tuhs; -TYOO-\, adjective:1. Happening by chance; coming or occurring by accident, or without any known cause.2. Happening by a fortunate or lucky chance.3. Fortunate or lucky.

The profession, the political faith, the entire life of many men, depend on chance circumstances, on what is fortuitous, on the caprice and the unexpected turns of fate.-- Juan Valera, Pepita Jimenez

They paint, in the most magnificent colours, the order, beauty, and wise arrangement of the universe; and then ask, if such a glorious display of intelligence could proceed from the fortuitous concourse of atoms, or if chance could produce what the greatest genius can never sufficiently admire.-- David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

But Edward Bok has always felt that he was materially helped by fortuitous conditions not of his own creation or choice.-- Edward Bok, The Americanization of Edward Bok

I was saved from arrest by the fortuitous arrival of some friends of my parents, who talked the cops into letting me go.-- Susan Molinari with Elinor Burkett, Representative Mom

I view life as a fortuitous collaboration ascribable to the fact that one finds oneself in the right place at the right time.-- Brion Gysin, The Third Mind

The site selection, three blocks west of the Chicago River, proved fortuitous in 1871, when everything east and north of the river burned down in the Great Chicago Fire.-- Richard E. Cohen, Rostenkowski: The Pursuit of Power and the End of the Old Politics
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