CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930’s, 1940’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and Early 80’s! First, you survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn’t get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, your baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when you rode your bikes, you had no helmets, not to mention, the risks you took hitch-hiking. As children, you would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a truck or on the tailgate was always great fun. You drank water from the garden hosepipe and actually liked it. You shared one soft drink with four friends, from one cup and NO ONE actually died from this. You ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but you weren’t overweight because YOU WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! You ran in the yard barefooted, rolled in the grass and never even thought about ticks. You would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as you were back when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach you all day. And you were OK. You would spend hours building your go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out you forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, you learned to solve the problem. You fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. You played with worms (well, most boys did) and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. You made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although you were told it would happen, you did not poke out any eyes. You rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever and YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS
Best, Jay
JAYSPEAK 