Posted on 03/04/2016 10:06:31 AM PST by PROCON
If you grew up in the 1960s or 1970s, then you know how relaxed everything used to be. Our parents never forced us to wear seatbelts, we pretty much at whatever we wanted, and were given way more responsibiity than we should have been given. It's a little sad kids today won't get to experience half the things we did, but looking back, there's a good reason why they won't.
Were these 12 things we did as kids kind of dangerous? Yeah, maybe some of it was.
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You had to be back at sundown?
How would that work in a 2-seat convertible?
Well, a lot of them are not alive right now. And a few others are walking around with one eye. But I do get your point.
When I was 11 or 12, I remember piling into a car with my friends and one of their older brothers, who was the driver as he was 16.
We took his Father’s rifles and shotguns to a big empty lot/forest on the edge of town, and proceeded to blast away at cans, bottles, etc...
A cop from our town, who probably heard the shooting, drove by. I remember him looking us over, and asking, Who owns the guns? We replied: “Sammy’s Dad, Officer.”
He simply said “OK boys, be safe.” and he left.
We played in the street. We rode our bikes and did crazy stuff without helmuts.
We walked miles to school alone.
We made skate boards from Skates nailed to the board.
Reminds me of the time my dad brought home a good-sized blob of mercury (he was a doctor). It was his rather novel idea to put liquid mercury in the front-end of my brother’s Pinewood Derby car.
I remember having so much fun rolling that around in the palm of my hands.
You are correct inasmuch as medical care was affordable due capitalism, competition, no international pharmaceutical companies jerking around the costs of medications, but in those days the government wasn’t telling us how to live our lives as they are today, and THAT in itself is a major reason for todays cultural collapse.
Two obvious differences - Mom was home, kids weren’t considered “friends”, they were the kids.
We used lead.
Yep, mercury was a lot of fun to play with! Loved building models with that plastic glue that contains toluene. Did not like the head ache afterward though.
Dittos!
I miss this land when we were still America
We made tree house forts. Waaay up. You nail boards to the tree for your ladder, pass wood up to the top guy to nail level, then everybody sits in it. We lived. We rode mini bikes at 30 MPH without helmets. We lived. We made bombs with our chemistry sets. We lived. We jumped off of 20 foot high cliffs into a lake. We lived. I rode up the steps and thru the school on my friends motorcycle without helmets. My Dad, an Army DI, sent me to military academy. I still lived.
We?
[ Nowadays, all I see are these guys with bike helmets in lime green spandex.]
Thank Lance Armstrong for that fad....
In science class, we actually got to hold a ball of mercury in our hands and roll it around. We thought it was very cool!
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