Posted on 06/17/2015 4:35:26 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Did them all! I had so many bike accidents that I have lost count. I still to this day have a few scars from them. We all thought we were Evil Kneival back then. LOL.
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In the early 1960’s in St. Mary’s County, MD, our area was sprayed in the summer by a truck driving by, once or twice a week. We would run and close windows, and hoped there was no wash drying on the line (before our dryer - ). If we could hear the truck coming, we had moments to prepare.
We SEEM to be okay, here in CA, but we do have a now adult daughter with some mild problems and wonder if that insecticide contributed anything - - - I mean by way of her mother having possibly been exposed here and there to that insecticide a few years before.
How about these? Biking with friends for 2 weeks, going on an airplane alone? (used to go to a private school, so every September I flew when I was 11), hang out at the mall, build a treefort (not a tree house) with scrap wood in a woods?
My brother used to make me sit in the basement and load shotgun shells for him.
Once I made a full rack he took me water skiing. Good times!
“13.Throwing rocks at snakes in the river”
Water moccasins breed in the spring in a large thrashing wad out in the water.
Imagine how angry they are after getting a treble hook in their side and dragged onto the bank by a fishing rod and then bludgeoned by a baseball bat?
Guilty on all counts. I remember one of the coolest things we ever did was to build a monster slingshot with surgical tubing and a funnel which took 3 of us to operate. That thing was the kidsize equivalent to having a B52 bomber. We dominated the neighborhood in every snowball fight and in summer with water balloons. We actually forced our neighbors off the roof of their barn they were building with a steady barrage.
I had a lawnmowing business at 9.
I've never heard of "wild swimming." Do they mean skinny-dipping?
When we were kids, it was just plain old swimming. While people see something sexual in everything nowadays, it wasn't odd for the boys to cool off by jumping in the creek in their birthday suits. If there were girls along, they'd swim around the bend.
It's kind of funny. All the liberal talk of "being free with our bodies" has actually resulted in people being a lot more uptight.
Now if you ant to play doctor, you would forms to go through, because you’d be labeled a sex offender.
Jumping trains in Chicago....
Playing in abandoned warehouses...
Playing on the recently dumped slag piles from the steel mills...
Now if you ant to play doctor, you would forms to go through, because you’d be labeled a sex offender.
Clamp on roller skates — with key — no helmet or knee pads!
Even as a female , did a quite a bit of that. Climbed fences, climbed trees, built forts, went crawdad fishing at the creek, played outside in the front yard all day long. And when I was being super rebellious, I had a lemonade stand without a permit (apparently you have to have one now)
Chemistry sets, electronics set as presents.. Driving your parents car...at 12....
Well everyone has fond memories of childhood, because that was the last time you didn’t have to work and pay bills.
But before we get too misty-eyed and sentimental about past decades, may I point out some of the disadvantages - worse medical care, worse cars, only 3 channels on TV (which went off-air at midnight), unreported rapes (cuz women weren’t believed), and free reign for pedophiles.
Some things are better now, some are worse - probably a valid truth for any point in history?
I had some stilts that I had to get on from the roof of my parents Spanish style flat top house. That wasn’t really the problem though, I did not plan how to get off of them.
Planning ahead, that’s my motto.
They left off a big one, lighting firecrackers. Also playing with chemistry sets.
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