How Did We Survive??

I found this on a blogging friend's blog today and I roared through the entire thing! Another online friend of mine was just laughing with me too about a trampoline post of mine from a while back, so this was just so timely! Here goes:

How Did We Survive???

Today I was thinking about some of the things we did as kids that don't happen today...I found this list online...it gave me a chuckle!

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When we were growing up we never wore seatbelts in the car, cars didn't have airbags ... ??

Riding on the back of a pick up truck was an adventure that we still remember! ??

Our cribs were painted with bright colors (paint which was full of lead) ??

We didn't have childproof medicine bottles, nor did our parents ever childproof our house ??

When we rode our bikes we never wore a helmet. ??

We would drink water from the faucet or from a hose in the backyard (not bottled water). ??

We didn't have cell phones , so our parents were never able to reach us (awesome) . ??

We would get scrapes, bruises, break bones , lose teeth , but we would never sue for these accidents. ??

We would eat cake, , bread and butter, , drink sugary drinks, and we weren't overweight because we were always outside playing ??

Four of us would share a drink, we would all drink from the same bottle and that wasn't gross nor would anyone get sick.

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!

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.??

We didn't have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X boxes, video games, cable TV with over 100 channels , VCR's , surround sound , cellular phones , computers , online chatrooms , instead we would have tons of FRIENDS ??

Some of us weren't as bright as others but when one would get left back that was no big deal. They would not get taken to a psychologist, nor did they ever suffer from dyslexia, hyperactivity, ADHD, ADD, etc, they would simply repeat the grade until they passed.??

We had freedom, mishaps, successes, responsibilities, and we would learn to deal with them.

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Do you have any to add?