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07-15-2008, 10:57 PM | #1 |
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| Danger? How did you survive childhood? What sort of dangerous things did you do when you were a kid. Things that would make you go nuts now, if your kids did them? We used to break open thermometers to get the mercury out. We rolled it around in our hands, on the tabel and such. We took nickels and rubbed it on them to make them bright and shiny. I lived in the south. We had a truck that had a DDT sprayer machine on it that created a fog of DDT to combat mosquitoes (skeeters). We thought it was wonderful and ran around playing in that fog. The Fog Machine Is Coming!!! Yipee? Of course there were the bicycles that we rode a gazillion miles an hour with....da da...no helmets?? I don't know how we made it through that! The taller the tree to climb, the better. Sometimes you would go so high it would scare the heck out of you but you never let on to that! What about you? What absolutely, stupidly, dangerous things did you do. __________________________________________________ ______ |
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07-16-2008, 02:58 AM | #2 |
Love my Mika!!! Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Cheshire UK
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| I got this on facebook.... According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was regularly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles or latches on doors or cabinets, and it was fine to play with pans. When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokeys' on our wheels. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags and riding in the front passenger seat - or the boot - was a treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle, and it tasted the same. We ate chips, bread and butter pudding, and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but were never overweight because we were always outside playing. We shared one drink with four friends - from one bottle or can - and no one actually died from it. We would spend several hours building go-carts out of scraps, then go top speed down the hill, only to find out we'd forgotten the brakes. After running into a patch of stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back before dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded. We didn't have Playstations or Xboxes - no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape films, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no internet chatrooms. We had friends - we went outside and found them. We played French skipping and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt! We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones, but there were no law suits. We played Knock Down Ginger and were actually afraid of the owners catching us. We walked to friends' homes. We also, believe it or not, walked to school; we didn't rely on Mummy or Daddy to drive us to school, as it was just round the corner. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in packs of seven and wore our coats by only the hood. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of they actually sided with the law. This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem-solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. And you're one of them. Congratulations! Pass this on to others who had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and the government regulated our lives for "our own good". For those of you who aren't old enough, we thought you might like to read about us. And something else to put a smile on your face... The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986. The Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Neneh Cherry or Belinda Carlisle. For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam. AIDS has existed since they were born. CDs have existed since they were born. Michael Jackson has always been white. To them, John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could ever have been a god of dance. They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are films from the past ten years. They can never imagine life before computers. They'll never have pretended to be the A-Team, the Dukes of Hazzard or the Famous Five. They can't believe a black and white television ever existed. And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone. Now let's check if we're getting old... 1) You understand what was written above and you smile. 2) You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out. 3) Your friends are getting married/already married. 4) You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers. 5) When you see children with mobile phones, you shake your head. 6) Having read this, you're thinking of forwarding it to a number of other friends because you know they'll like it too...
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07-16-2008, 03:15 AM | #3 |
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| When I was a kid I didn't really do much of anything except sit in my room and read and write stories and poetry. My MOM and uncle, however, well....just let me tell you this story! My grandparents were military (AF) and my grandfather was stationed in Bermuda. Not far from the house they lived in was a slaughter house and in it was a cement chute that went down and stuck out over a cliff and a good size drop to the ocean (I can't remember how many feet but I want to say 50+). Naturally, in the ocean right there sharks and baracuda hung out because of all the free food being flung down the chute. Well, on weekends, when the slaughter house was closed, my mom, uncle, and some of the local kids would sit on pieces of cardboard and slide down this chute and play chicken by seeing who could get the closest to the end before they jumped off the side! When my GaGa (that's what we call my grandma) found out, well, lets just say my mom and uncle were probably wishing they'd just gone off the end of the chute and into the water with the sharks and baracuda! LOL
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07-16-2008, 07:47 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: A little town south of Chicago
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| Oh Lord! I remember the DDT Sprayer!!!!! The guy that drove it liked my Dad and he would go off the road and drive all around our house too! I used to play on the roof of our two story house when my folks were gone and my friends and I used to love exploring abandoned houses. The most dangerous though is when Dad tied our sled to the back of the car and drove us around (on the sled) country roads after a winter storm! </IMG> |
07-16-2008, 09:13 AM | #5 |
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| Oh, Piptickle, I loved your post. I've read that before but loved seeing it again. That is exactly how I grew up and loved every minute of it. I wish we could go back to that time sometimes.
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07-16-2008, 09:47 AM | #6 | |
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PS - the Dukes of Hazzard thing - SOOOOO not true. I am embarrassed to admit it (cause it's really weird NOW) but my spawn brother and one of his spastic friends are obsessed with DoH. His friend dresses like Rosco (?) and they both went to "Dukefest" in Atlanta earlier this month. I think it's really, really, REALLY weird. lol. But if it was normal to "play" DoH a while back....well then fine haha. Psh...I never did anything exciting. I think all the lawsuits started when I was growing up. The dumbest thing I ever did was that a group of us would always try to climb this old, dead pine tree on the corner, and we'd see who could get the furthest up before something happened. then when they cut off most of the branches (so when people fell they wouldn't get sued ) we'd see who could make it the furthest with no branches to hold on to hehe. oh and of course going on the swing sets when school was closed (cause we couldn't swing above a certain point during school) and seeing who could jump off at the highest point and land on their feet.
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07-16-2008, 09:59 AM | #7 |
Donating YT 30K Club Member | I hitch hiked everywhere when I was in my teens. That's how I met my husband 38 years ago. We never used sunscreen yet were out all day in the summer. My sister ate cookies out of our neighbors garbage becasue he worked for Salerno cookines and threw out new boxes. I didn't eat them! My dad would take us (4) and our friends piled in his station wagon, no seat belts, hanging out of windows and he would take us to the forest prserve and there was this dam and we would walk all over it and it was slippery and I am sure pretty dangerous. When my Dad smoked he would send us to the corner store to get hos cigarettes. We not only survived but I had the best childhood, no money but tons of fun.
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07-16-2008, 10:04 AM | #8 |
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| Its a wonder I'm still alive... From the age of about 6 + we were allowed to ride bikes w/ no helmets by ourselves all over my friends neighborhood (couldn't on my street b/c it was high traffic area by the college) and the worst thing that ever happened was a scrapped knee. We would play in the pond/pool by ourselves. We made mudpies and sometimes tasted them. We became "bloodsisters". At my nephews house (they are 3 & 6 yrs OLDER than me), we rode motorized dirt bikes without helmets. Romped all over the lake and woods that contained gators, snakes, whoknows whatelse). Rode Fourwheelers and go carts all over the place.. once again.. no helmets. We jumped off things that were too high. We did flips on the trampoline. TONs of other dangerous things. I was soooo tan when I was younger. I didn't spend any summer days indoors if I could help it. |
07-16-2008, 01:22 PM | #9 |
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| I don't know how I survived either. I lived on my bike, no helmet either. I was always outside unsupervisored at a young age. I would pet any animal that walked in my yard. I would stand up on the seat beside my grandfather in his truck. I would ride in the back of the truck on the highway a lot. I was always outside, I never used sunscreen. I would ride my bike 5 miles to town on a bike trail. My granfather never knew or I would have gotten in big trouble. But my kids HAVE to be in a seatbelt, HAVE to wear sunscreen. They don't wear bike helmets, we live in the country and they don't ride much. They are not allowed to ride in a back of a truck. They do not walk anywhere. I even drive my 16 year old 3 houses up to his friend's house. I don't know how dogs survived either. I fed my chihuahua chocolate, sweet tarts, tomatoes, raw potatoes, you name it. She ate anything I did. And my grandparents never took her to the vet. I have learned a lot about pet care as I aged. I grew up on a farm and my grandparents had the farmer mentality.
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07-16-2008, 01:42 PM | #10 |
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| The bug man! Yeah!!! Only OUR mission was to ride right behind the truck and be in the fog so deep that noone could see you!! We walked everywhere.....even at night! Suntans.....you could get a better one with of all things BABY OIL! There were so many things i did when i was a kid that i would not have dreamed of letting my kids do. And now, the grandkids....oh boy!
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07-16-2008, 02:13 PM | #11 |
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| Oh, wow. Let's see...no sunscreen...no seatbelts...played in the woods w/o supervision, rode my bike w/o a helmet and there was a place by the railroad tracks and reservoir (on a little bridge) where we would cross over the LIVE third rail, carrying our bikes! I also dove into our above-ground swimming pool a zillion times BUT, one time, I held my arms differently and dove in and hit my HEAD on the BOTTOM!!! I thought my head split in half! Of course, since there was no blood and seemingly, nothing was broken, I didn't go to the doctor!! I am paying BIG TIME now for that accident. It caused spinal damage and I have advanced degenerative disk disease! (But I didn't die!!) Ahhh, good times...
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07-16-2008, 02:31 PM | #12 |
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| We lived on a great big hill, and my sisters used to send me top to bottom in my stroller, just flying along, counting on the sister at the bottom to catch the stroller! Seat belts and such weren't an issue either, so we used to stack all 7 kids in the car: one in the front between mom and dad, and the 3 largest holding the 3 smallest on their laps in the back seat. I'm the youngest and don't remember this, but one brother told me the 'rents used to go Christmas shopping and leave all 7 kids in the car alone. After dark. Every cut got mercurochrome on it (yep, mercury on an open wound). And there was lots of swimming in the rivers, when the steel companies here used to dump all their waste in the rivers. I'm surprised we don't look like the Simpsons! |
07-16-2008, 03:19 PM | #13 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Tucson, Arizona
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| we rode our bikes everywhere. No helmets, of course. We rode to the park, to the tennis courts, to the ice cream shop, to friends' houses, to the river, you name it. We used to jump off bridges into the river. We had treehouses, and we would rig up ropes and swing from tree to tree. In the summertime, my mother used to throw us out of the house in the a.m. We were required to come home at lunch, and then we were required to stay indoors until 2 pm (it was in very hot, humid, Louisiana, so we didn't mind). We had to read or nap during those 2 hours. Then we went out to find our friends again, and we would play until dinnertime. We knew when to come home because my father could whistle VERY LOUDLY. That was the signal. |
07-16-2008, 03:36 PM | #14 |
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| When I was little we had a small creek that ran behind the house.and all thru the woods in my neighborhood...I used to put my Dads hipboots on and play in there everyday.....all thru the woods...catching all kinds of creatures.... My brother put me on a sled and said he would get behind me...and didn't ..just pushed me and at the bottom of the hill was that creek...I misses it by a hair... Used to ride our bikes to school. No helmets...I stood in the car next to the driver...Never seat belts, sunblock, or shoes....
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07-16-2008, 05:38 PM | #15 |
Donating YT 7000 Club Member | I thought of another thing we (still) do. There is an old broken tressel over Mill Pond in my old town and we cross it all the time - it's a short cut. The thing is old and decreped and they were going to close it off, but the kids of the town convinced them to keep it open. Woohoo! This is it (it doesn't look that messed up, but it's the beams between and under the tracks that are gonna give out at any time haha) http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/att...l-pond-004.jpg and here's another picture from the middle of it: http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/att...l-pond-005.jpg We also always walked around with no adults, but it was a really small town, so....
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