People over 35 should be dead

[fgray1]

I've been dead awhile now.
I'm just don't have the time to lie down.
30 years with the woman I love, self employed, and a daughter that spoiled but working on taking over my business.
I think I've done good and you stated the reasons why.

 

[cdiver2]

I will not take credit for someone else's writing, I just didn't want to detract from it by adding a lot of my own bunk.

Personally, while I find the whole thing amusing to read, I also find it quite a sad statement on society today. Whatever happened to just enjoying life and having fun?

Oh, and Dennis, did you really have to mention the lead toothpaste tubes? Now I feel older than dirt. lol

When I was a to be seen and not heard the water pipes in the house were lead. In the winter we always had burst pipes and after the plumber had been we would play with the shining lead droppings.

 

[shawn86442]

Wow! I Need A Beer.

 

[CD_in_Chitown]

In the winter we always had burst pipes and after the plumber had been we would play with the shining lead droppings.

I'm not that old but I remember melting down lead shot to pour into the Pinewood Derby car. I suggested the practice to my nephew last year and got my first real "You're so out of touch you old guy" look as he explained not only is that cheating, but also extremely DANGEROUS!

Geez I'll be dead in 3 years.

 

[DivePartner1]

[ According to today's regulators [/font] and bureaucrats . . .

Much of these are prompted by people like us.

People like us sue over real imagined injuries. People like us have served on the juries that award lottery quality verdicts.
Not often, most jurors still have common sense, but one wacko verdict is enough make theses changes. Regulators are just taking orders: ours.

 

[TCDiver1]

-Playing with the mercury from thermometers because it pooled up cool. Who knew?

-Using baby oil for tanning. We didn't need no stinking sunblock .... because it wasn't invented yet.

-Skateboards with metal wheels, my knees hurt just thinking about those things

-Pest/bug control was all about DDT.

-single speed bikes with a kick brake and we thought we where cool when 3 speeds came out.

-Seat-belts, lap only belts really, just got in the way

Damn, i really miss M-80's!

 

[RIDIVER501]

Kind a of weird how the average lifespan has increased and the average IQ has dropped.

need to get darwin back into the equation.

 

[Wijbrandus]

I remember getting my first 3-speed at 12, and destroying the gears about twenty minutes after my dad let me ride around on it. My old single speed held up a lot better, and was pretty much indestructible.

I remember when kids on bikes belonged in the street or in the woods, not on the sidewalks. We were a hazard to everyone else, not the other way around.

I remember climbing to the top of my neighbor's elm tree and falling about thirty feet out of it because it couldn't hold my lousy 100 pounds up there. I also remember getting my hide tanned first by the neighbor, and then by my dad because I busted up his tree.

I remember playing tag with my brother with first lawn darts, and then dartboard darts. I still have a few of those scars.

Finally, I remember hopping into another neighbor's yard to play with his dog. The only problem was I didn't know the neighbor, or the dog, and the dog tore me up something fierce before I could get my dumb ass back over the fence and run home crying like a whipped baby. Just in time to meet my dad coming home and get my ass whipped, again, for being a knucklehead.

Crap, and I've still got six months to go until I die.

 

[Quarrior]

Should probably add a citation at least if it doesn't clutter it up too much? *Shrug*

If I knew who the orginal author was, I would have put a citation to it, but this came to me in email without the benefit of that information.

 

[wstein]

I remember playing king of the mountain on the roof of my house. Dang those holly bushes hurt. My mom would tear us up for messing up the bushes.

Paul