Another good month for the McScrappbook, and Slappy wanna thank y'all for some very informative and creative writings.

The following piece be deservin SLAPPY'S BEST A DA MONTH AWARD for November.
Posted by WFO WR500—11-24-2002

If you lived as a child in the 60s or the 70s. Looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention hitchhiking to town as a young kid!) We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode 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 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. No cell phones. Unthinkable.

We played dodge ball and sometimes the ball would really hurt. We got cut and broke bones and broke teeth and there were no law suits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember accidents?

We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and Learned to get over it. We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda but we were never overweight.....we were always outside playing.

We shared one grape soda with four friends, from one bottle and no one died from this?

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X Boxes, video games at all, 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cellular phones, Personal Computers, Internet chat rooms, we had friends. We went
outside and found them.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and
knocked on the door, or rung the bell or just walked in and talked to them. Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves! Out there in the cold cruel world! Without a guardian.

How did we do it? We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms (not alot, hopefully) and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever. Little
League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade, and were held back to repeat the same grade. Horrors. Tests were not adjusted for any reason.

Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. No one ever to hide behind. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was
unheard of. They actually sided with the law, imagine that!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years has 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!

Congratulations WFO WR500, slapptacious piece . E-mail Slappy your address at slappymcduner@hotmail.com so he can send ya out a Slappy Package.

REAL QUICK...Slappy do wanna ask everybody to plese help Slap out. If you see a slapptacious post by somebody or even yourself, please don't hesimitate to let Slappy know what forum and topic it may be in, cuz da board be a rockin all da time, and Slap can miss some good stuff...The McScrappbook and Slappy would really appreciate it...

[ 12-05-2002, 10:33 PM: Message edited by: Slappy ]

Yup.. that one was great.. hurts to read it and wonder how our kids will make it...

Wow!

Thanks Slappy

I look forward to an early Christmas present from you
I will be sure to put your present under the tree as well:p

Merry Christmas!

congrats, that was a very cool post..