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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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.
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.
What? No dogs on the roof?
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.
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.
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.
Ha! Ha! that’s nothing! During the summer my mom said “Be back by dark.” We ran all over hell and gone...
BFL
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!
I count myself lucky to have survived a brutal game of Dodge Ball in gym class. s/
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.
I used to stand on the seat in front of my father when he was driving on the highway to Buffalo. LOL....
I love ME-TV, the best channel out there!
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
“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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I hear ya, but that ain’t it. We’ve feminized this country.
It is more expensive, relatively speaking. But if your kid falls down and breaks their arm, you'd better pray you have witnesses or the Social Serpents will try to have you arrested for abuse and your children 'placed'.
my uncle had a 59 chevy and had 6 kids and a dog. I aksed my cousin how that worked...a lot of laps....
There’s 12 now I guess.
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