I walked 8 blocks to a convenience store to buy cigarettes for my mom when I was 6 years old!!! I wouldn't let my daughter walk 8 blocks by herself now.
I walked 8 blocks to a convenience store to buy cigarettes for my mom when I was 6 years old!!! I wouldn't let my daughter walk 8 blocks by herself now.
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I was thinking about this the other day. If you lived out in the country, chances are you played in or near a creek. There was a creek that ran out behind my house, near a sewer plant even, that we used to go down into, wade around, play war, etc...
I wonder how many rattlesnake nests, etc... I laid my head next to without even giving that sort of thing a thought.
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I killed a guy once, when I was 8.
We never wore seatbelts and I don't think we even had a carseat when I was a baby.
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I held up a liquor store.
Made it outta there with a couple grand and a fifth of whiskey.
We used to have rock wars, ROCK WARS!! How dumb were we? The game ended once, suprise, someone got hit in the eye.
Sometimes I think I drink alot, then I see, like, the Motley Crüe behind the music, and realize I'm a huge *****.
Mom used to put my 11 year old sister, 6 year old brother and 5 year old me on the City bus at 9:00 Saturday morning to ride 5 or 6 miles downtown. We would then walk a couple blocks to the movie theater, watch the 10 a.m. matinee and stay for the 1 o'clock feature, walk back and catch the bus for the ride home, arriving around 4:30. Babysitting on the cheap.
It was safe at that time. Would not consider it today.
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We did the same thing. I remember my little brother getting 11 stitches in the forehead. That was the last rock fight we had.Originally Posted by colleyvillesooner
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We played tackle football in the street, had BB gun fights but the fame for the tough guys was bike fights. We'd just ride as fast as we could head on ibto each other. What were we thinking?
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I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
but I wouldn't want my kid to try it.
but seriously I used to swim in ponds, drive my dads tractor, I used to ride on the top of the haystack when we hauled hay for my grandpa, I used to walk to town to go to my Aunt's house.
My mother shot me once. Once!
Roman candle fights.
Chemistry sets.
helmetless bicycling. In fact bicycling all over town, even in traffic, in the summer with nothing on but a t-shirt and cut-off blue jeans.
your first .22 when you were 12.
When you were 6, lying on the back dash (with the rear radio speaker under your noggin) and looking up at the stars as your dad cruises down the interstate in the family Chevy Impala.
Parents smoking cigarettes with the car windows rolled up while you and your little brother catch a second-hand smoke buzz.
When you were 5, standing up on the car's front bench seat next to your mom as she drives to the grocery store. Your safety restraint? Moms right arm which would fly up across your chest if she had to stop suddenly.
Oh yeah, this little number. The Mattel "Thingmaker." For those of you who weren't kids in the 1960's, it was set which included what was esssentially a hot plate which got up to 300 degrees on which you cooked up toys (bugs, creatures, army men, etc.) by heating steel molds you filled with a liquid plastic called "Goop" which then solidified. I burned the crap out of myself everytime I played with mine. Here's an ad:
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i've done the venerable roman candle fight. also, the "i dare you to walk across that frozen pond" game.
Interesting - I am really old and I had a carseat when I was a baby. It wasn't much in the way of protection, but you can see the idea was starting. There was a steel frame with canvas fabric, some kind of a tray in front to hold toys. It fit over the back of the front seat, so I could look out the windows. My brother used it for a couple of years.
I don't remember when we got seatbelts in the car. It just seemed like we always had them.
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Sledding behind cars on the frozen neighborhood streets.
bb gun wars... of course we suited up for the occasions and it was a blast... I looked like someone from the movie Mad max, with a Sunoco/DX leather racing jacket, Armco Construction hat and welders face shield, come to think about it the bottle rocket and roman candle wars we had were the bomb.
Weeeeeeeeee the good times.
burning down fences with fireworks
dressing up as a golfer on Halloween and teeing off with the popcorn balls and apples in the bastards yards who gave them to us.
dude, that was pretty stupid. I was much smarter. I had dirt clod wars.
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