Mr. Luddite wrote:

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 hitchhiking .. As children, you would ride
in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a van -
loose - was always great fun. You drank water from the garden hosepipe
and NOT from a bottle. You shared one soft drink with four friends,
from one bottle 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
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 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 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 mobile phones, no text messaging, no
personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........YOU
HAD FRIENDS and you went outside and found them! 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! Local teams 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 you out if you 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.
You had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and you learned
HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!
....with minimal litigation and even less frivolous litigation.