Running with Scissors

I have read this before, and it is sooooo true:

Those Born 1920-1979 ---VERY WELL STATED TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, 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. 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 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or 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 walked in and talked to 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!

These generations have 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!

If 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 so much of our lives for our own good.

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

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

Ok, Kids...you can do drugs AND play professional ball!

Ready to run again? NFL reinstates Ricky

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21086686/

This guy was suspended in 2004 after violating the NFL drug policy the fourth time. Let me repeat that... after the fourth time.

At what point are we going to explain to young athletes that there are PERMANENT ramifications to breaking the rules. I mean, really. So, Williams is suspended, and then goes to play in the Canadian Football League. Wow, man! Serious consequences he head to deal with. THE GUY WAS STILL PLAYING PROFESSIONAL BALL!!

Can someone please explain to me like a two year old why this guy is still allowed to play professional ball, and more importantly, how anyone expects young athletes to take breaking the rules seriously?

Sex of the two-wheeled type

Man who had sex with bicycle sentenced

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/14/nbikesex114.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox

So, there is this guy across the pond who was so enthralled by his bicycle, he decided it was time to consummate the relationship.

"The court was told that alcohol was the cause of his problems, and he was placed under the supervision of a social worker and warned that if he re-offended he would be sent to prison."

I would like to think that there was an alternative problem, aside that one of actually (somehow) fornicating with not only an inanimate object, but one that has moving parts that might actually HURT! Now, I certainly do not mean to offend my BDSM friends out there, but a BICYCLE?

Incidentally, I giggled furiously as I read this article. Who needs waterboarding when you can have a spinning bicycle tire?