Just how did we make it out alive way back then?
We were tougher and less coddled, IMHO.
NO SEATBELTS
We never had to buckle up back in the day, which meant we could sit wherever. That includes stretching out across the seats, lying against the back windshield, or, if your parents had a station wagon, rolling around in the cargo area.
What was better than all of that was hitching a ride in a flatbed pickup. No cushioned seats, no roof and nothing but the wind in your hair and sun in your face.
1 posted on
03/04/2016 10:06:31 AM PST by
PROCON
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To: PROCON
We rolled our own rocker motors, and some bombs besides. Shooting an arrow straight up will immediately give you a small increment in IQ for next time.
2 posted on
03/04/2016 10:08:25 AM PST by
GingisK
To: PROCON
What? No dogs on the roof?
3 posted on
03/04/2016 10:09:18 AM PST by
Paladin2
To: PROCON
How much of the casual attitude toward children in the 1960’s and 1970’s was due to the fact that families could afford to have broken arms set and cuts stitched up. Now, not so much.
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03/04/2016 10:09:22 AM PST by
gspurlock
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To: PROCON
How much of the casual attitude toward children in the 1960’s and 1970’s was due to the fact that families could afford to have broken arms set and cuts stitched up. Now, not so much.
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03/04/2016 10:10:01 AM PST by
gspurlock
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To: PROCON
I remember our old Vista Cruiser station wagon had bench seats in the front (I don’t remember it having seat belts) and 3 of us kids would squeeze up there with our Dad on any journeys that involved the whole family.
6 posted on
03/04/2016 10:10:14 AM PST by
PGR88
To: PROCON
Ha! Ha! that’s nothing! During the summer my mom said “Be back by dark.” We ran all over hell and gone...
To: PROCON
8 posted on
03/04/2016 10:12:22 AM PST by
Skooz
(Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
To: PROCON
9 posted on
03/04/2016 10:12:24 AM PST by
Don W
( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: PROCON
I once knew a guy with a hole in the top AND bottom of his foot from a lawn dart impaling it all the way through!
10 posted on
03/04/2016 10:12:59 AM PST by
MNDude
(God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
To: PROCON
When I was little I had a plastic maze with a blob of mercury that you moved around by tilting it. Somehow, I'm still alive.
11 posted on
03/04/2016 10:13:33 AM PST by
snarkpup
(I want a government small enough that my main concern in life doesn't need to be who's running it.)
To: PROCON
I count myself lucky to have survived a brutal game of Dodge Ball in gym class. s/
12 posted on
03/04/2016 10:13:33 AM PST by
Huskrrrr
To: PROCON
Never even knew what a bike helmet was... and I lived to tell about it. Nowadays, all I see are these guys with bike helmets in lime green spandex.
13 posted on
03/04/2016 10:14:10 AM PST by
Obadiah
To: PROCON
I used to stand on the seat in front of my father when he was driving on the highway to Buffalo. LOL....
14 posted on
03/04/2016 10:14:12 AM PST by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: PROCON
Here in South Carolina the legislature is debating a bill to require everyone 13 and under to ride in the back seat. One representative said that it was stupid to make someone ride in the back seat, when in two years he would be eligible to get a driver’s license
16 posted on
03/04/2016 10:14:21 AM PST by
aomagrat
(Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
To: PROCON
my uncle had a 59 chevy and had 6 kids and a dog. I aksed my cousin how that worked...a lot of laps....
To: PROCON
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.
To: PROCON
Two obvious differences - Mom was home, kids weren’t considered “friends”, they were the kids.
28 posted on
03/04/2016 10:18:44 AM PST by
1Old Pro
To: PROCON
OMG! No Helmet! On a bike going fast! No handbrakes! No elbow and knee pads! He's going to kill himself and the parents should go to JAIL!!!!
29 posted on
03/04/2016 10:18:52 AM PST by
CodeToad
(Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
To: PROCON
I miss this land when we were still America
34 posted on
03/04/2016 10:21:39 AM PST by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: PROCON
My dad got me this at 12 years old and I knew enough to never point it at anyone...
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