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A friend I text with quite a bit seemed to need some space, so I backed off. Respected her needs. Acted as if it wasn’t me … and guess what … it wasn’t. She just needed some “her” time.

PEI is right.

I had been dealing with a few crisis at work. I was PMSing. I was tired. I was grumpy. I only wanted to talk to one person. And it was not her.

I dealt with my stuff, and when I was ready, I texted her.

I needed that time. I needed no interruptions. I needed it and it wasn't personal to anyone except me.

It's the same with our S. It doesn't feel the same, but it is.

BTW, Marsha was my favorite too.

PEI,

told you I was WAAY older than you.

Also ftr ... I do remember the Brady Bunch, Happy Days and Mash ... they were just syndicated re-runs by the time I watched them

Ummm, can you say that again? Just want to make sure I heard you right

You're just an old soul

Also ftr ... I do remember the Brady Bunch, Happy Days and Mash ... they were just syndicated re-runs by the time I watched them

I remember The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Dukes of Hazzard, Different Strokes, and The Facts of Life too. Oh and Alice.

And never mind the Saturday morning cartoon line up...

Yes cartoons only ONE morning a week.

Nope, I don't know how that slipped out in the first place

I remember The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Dukes of Hazzard, Different Strokes, and The Facts of Life too. Oh and Alice.

And never mind the Saturday morning cartoon line up...

Yes cartoons only ONE morning a week.

Our children would have heart attacks.

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
1930s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who may have 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, locks on doors or cabinets,
and, when we rode our bikes,
we had baseball caps,
not helmets, on our heads.

As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes..

Riding in the back of a pick- up truck 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, real butter, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And we weren't overweight..
WHY?

Because we were always outside playing....that's why!

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 OKAY.

We would spend hours building
our go-carts out of scraps
and then ride them 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 Play Stations, Nintendo’s and X-boxes. There were
no video games, no 150 channels on cable,
no video movies or DVDs,
no surround-sound or CDs,
no cell phones,
no personal computers,
no Internet and no 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 those accidents.

We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand or a "ling kock", and no one would call child services to report abuse.

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 to 85 years have seen 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 those born
between 1925-1970, 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 ?