As Dad came to a stop sign or traffic light, he'd say "Slide, Baby, Slide!" and brake so that my sister and I would come sliding forward, shrieking with laughter.
He would never have allowed us to get hurt, but he'd probably be arrested if he did that today.
We used to ride our bikes barefooted all the time in the summer. If anyone had worn a bike helmet or kneepads back then, they'd have been laughed off the block.
LOL. I remember grown-ups would let us sip on their beer and puff on their cigarettes too.
That is awesome!!!!!
Didn’t Christie get her head stuck between the door and the seat? And then years later when we were all home and she was all grown up didn’t she get her head stuck in the couch? What is it with her getting her head stuck everywhere?! :-) Oh, yeah, she woke up one time (as an adult) and claimed her bed was trying to kill her, as the sheet had wrapped itself around her neck...LOL!!!
haha we did the same thing as kids in the station wagon. We also used to sleep back there when we were kids on long car trips.
What gets me is how people now see a kid not in a car seat at say.. oh.. age 16 and they start calling the parents “White trash” or other such names and generally freak out.
Amazing how peoples attitudes change.. amazing and sad.
“Dad would put the seats down in our station wagon, making a flat surface and my sister and I would sit way in the back.”
This reminds me of my horse summer camps.
Never mind it was dangerous I rode horses.
In those camps, they used to feature going to a local pool after lunch. The horse center had a plain delivery van - just windowless, flat open cargo space behind the front seats. They piled all us kids in there to go to a pool (sometimes pretty far - they varied where we went), up to 30. It was like an illegal-alien coyote operation!
It’s bad enough any “private” individual doing that with their own kids today - can you imagine a BUSINESS doing that with “strange” kids? The businesses were probably the 1st to abandon such approaches to transportation!