Best meme I have ever seen. I remember my friends and I would construct a ramp just like that and try to copy Evil Knievel with our bikes. Of course no helmets and knee pads. FUN FUN FUN!!!
In the 70’s we used to build homemade ramps and jump our bikes off of them, just as the kid on the Big Wheel is doing there.
This was all inspired by Evel Knievel. My mother would have ridden a Greyhound bus all the way to Montana just to kick that man in the groin.
For real! We played in ponds, dammed up streams, hung onto the backs of bikes while on rollerskates...it’s enough to make nanny state heads explode.
Back in those days, parents were in the background. Not the hovering control-freaks you see today. Every summer, literally, I was kicked out the door in the morning and told to come back when the street lights came on. So my typical summer day was hanging out with my friends and finding things to do, be it exploring the neighborhoods, playing pick-up games of stickball, baseball, etc., or getting in "trouble" by which I mean getting in fights with other kids, exploring abandoned houses or hanging out in one of our clubhouses with a stack of Mad and Penthouse magazines and a stack of comic books. Not the serious kind of trouble but we weren't altar boys either. Well some of us were on Sunday mornings but you know what I mean.
But parents were in the background, just like in those Charlie Brown TV shows. Around lunchtime, some of them would hand sandwiches and Kool-Aid out the window to us. Of course they didn't want us inside messing up their clean floors and furniture. And if I did go home during the day, my mother would stick a broom in my hand and put me to work. So of course, I stayed outside as much as I could!