a young cowboy

[chucktx]

A young cowboy walks into a seedy cafe in west texas. He sits at the counter and notices an old cowboy with his arms folded staring blankly at a full bowl of
chili.

After fifteen minutes of just sitting there staring
at it, the young cowboy bravely asks the old cowpoke,
"If you ain't gonna eat that, mind if I do?"

The older cowboy slowly turns his head toward the
young wrangler and in his best cowboy manner says,
"Nah, go ahead."

Eagerly, the young cowboy reaches over and slides the
bowl over to his place and starts sthingying itin with
delight. He gets nearly down to the bottom and notices
a dead mouse in the chili.

The sight was shocking and he immediately pukes up the chili into the bowl. The old cowboy quietly says,
"Yep, that's as far as I got,too.
chuck

[triman]

Chuck..........man thats baaaad

That was great ... hold on I think I'm going to be "@%#^%&*!!!

Lou

[paulmo1]

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the


1930's 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, and Early-ish 80's !!



First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.



They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.



Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.



We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.



As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.



Riding in the back of a ute on a warm day was always a special treat.



We drank water from the 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 and real butter and drank soft drink with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because



WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!



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 O.K.



We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride 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 Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet 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 these accidents.



We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.




We were given cowboy guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke 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!



The town football club had tryout for the junior team 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!



This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!



The past 50 years have 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 are one of them! 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 our lives for our own good. and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.



Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

[gtech]

I am one one of them, thank you...



Gilles

[triman]

thanks so much for the reminder, sometimes it takes something like this for me to remember to be grateful, but I sure miss those days. Every now and then I see an island for sale and think how nice it would be to get a crowd like this forums members and go together and buy it and just live life on lifes terms...........ok Im better now
triman

[witchybronco]

I'm 42,,, thank you for the recall to a simpler more active life. Wish I could have it back.........
both my kids are slackers as far as activeness, and I don't spoil them, videogames are on a time limit 1 hr,and most cartoons are locked out becuz of the violence. that's all they have, and it's not much,,,,,, gee, if they only knew how much fun it was back then..hotwheels in the dirt, drawing on every scrap of paper, models, and how much fun it is to wash a car. sighhh..............
if you don't mind, I have copied that to print it out, and stick it to the fridge where their drawings should be..............

[paulmo1]

not a problem Ihave one on the wall in the workshop