Posted on 04/14/2015 3:48:13 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
By today’s safety standards, every baby boomer should have been dead by the time we were 12.
We defied danger on a daily basis. We never knew that we were doing risky things, of course; we just thought that we were having fun. Nonetheless, we spent our days immersed in activities that we’d never for a second allow our children or grandchildren to do. Or even think about doing.
Here are some of the ways we courted trouble:
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A fun read, when you've got the time.
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I'm a Gen X closer to the Boomer gen than Gen Y and we had freedom that later generations will never know. I pity them. There is no way that this generation of transgendered safe-zone dwellers will survive when the SHTF.
There were a lot of boomers, that rendered some expendable.
Seatbelts????
My folks had 8 kids and I was the youngest so I had (actually got to ride) to ride on the deck behind the back seat next to the rear window! All my brothers and sisters were crammed in the front seat between my folks or in the back seat!
Yes we did live dangerously ... and ... a number of us were injured or died in the process. But that’s the way it was!
I’m not sure how we survive. I used to practice moto cross in a pair of jeans and t-shirt, biked without a helmet, skateboard without knee pads, picked tobacco, drove when I was 12, swam nude in a mud hole, hiked in sneakers, smoked from 12 to 19, drank wine and beer, played tackle football without pads and helmets, played baseball in a vacant lot, played ice hockey in a backyard with trees in the way, snowmobiled in jeans and shirts and built tree forts. And more things...
I recall riding my big fat American bicycle down a long flight of granite steps routinely for fun. If my mother found out she would have beaten me to death with a wooden spoon.
Because they had tough minds, and wouldn’t give up.
Well I just moved to Texas, and one of the very first things I noticed is that motorcycle helmets are voluntary.
A lot of people ride without one here.
I remember sticking a screwdriver in a wall socket during a party at my grandmothers house. For some reason all the lights went out.
Don’t ask me how I survived my childhood and teen years. Yet I did.
No seat belts and metal dashes with protruding metal knobs. Shocking!
Thank you."
Bump
Back in the late 80’s early 90’s I lived in Florida and they had mandatory helmet laws. I saw “bikers” riding around with Kaiser era German helmets. I guess a helmet is a helmet regardless of the metal spike sticking out of the top.
I’ll stick with my Simpson, unless I feel like a cool down ride after working outside in the summer. At least I have the choice.
LOL, no doubt!
Pic at article of kid with electrical cord in mouth and outlet reminds me of an incident.
My sister was about 1 and I was 4. Someone gave my sis a kiddy electric clothing iron. It had a cord and plug and would heat up. Dad bent the prongs so it couldn’t be put in a socket and heat up. I picked it up and experimented — stuck a single prong in the outlet. ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPP!
I only did it once. I was a quick learner.
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Rode many a mile without seatbelts. Even rode many of a mile in the back of a pickup on the highway. Used to play behind the DDT truck as it sprayed for mosquitos.
Hated school yards and parks that had those ‘safety’ seats on swings.
“We crowded into cars that had no seat belts — or, if they did, had them only in the front seat, while we sat in the back. There were car seats for toddlers, but they were designed to hold the kid upright, not to offer any protection.”
They forgot the worst part of riding in a car back then. Being the youngest, and having to sit in the back seat where the “hump” was. (curse you, rear-wheel drive!)
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