We're getting older

[FrankDrebin]

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were
kids in the 60's, 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 pans.

When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just thongs 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, and no Internet chat rooms. We had
friends we went outside and found them.

We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really
hurt.

We fell out of trees, got cut 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 mummy or
daddy 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 unheard of. They
actually sided with the law.

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 deal with it all.

And you're one of them. Congratulations!

Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids,
before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.

For those of you who aren't old enough thought you might like to read
about us.

However the following my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and
it might also put a smile on your face:

The majority of students in universities today were born in
1983........They are called youth.

They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children, and the
Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel.

They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena or Belinda
Carlisle.

For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.

AIDS has existed since they were born.

CD's have existed since they were born.

Michael Jackson has always been white.

To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't
imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance.

They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are Films from
last year.

They can never imagine life before computers.

They'll never have pretended to be the A Team, the Red Hand Gang or the
Famous Five.

They can't believe black and white television ever existed and don't
even know how to switch on a TV without a remote control.

And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a
mobile phone.

Now let's check if we're getting old...

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 or in some cases
your children are getting 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 meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old
days, repeating again all the funny things you have experienced
together.

7. Having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some
other friends because you think they will like it too...

Yes, we're getting older!!!!

[mazdamazda]

kalabaw lang ang tumatanda! :D

[OTEP]

Bata pa ko! (denial stage :D )

[GlennSter]

si ungas lang

[pajerokid]

sinong matanda? nasan? :bwahaha:

[chieffy]

wala....walang matanda dito

[Bogeyman]

Naman! 'Di pa ko nagkaka-anak, matanda na 'ko?!

Hindi ko matanggaaaaaaaaaaap! :-P

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.

O, wala pang Promil nun. Partida pa 'yan ha, hehehehe.

[artpogi]

sorry ha di ako maka-relate, si Bea Alonzo tsaka si John Lloyd ang inabot ko eh

[silver_corolla]

Age is just a state of mind. The important thing is you get the job done.

;)

[kimpOy]

bata pa ako...Voltes 5 lang ang inabot.



bukas saturday 7am... ang galing!!!