The fear of the day.

[Disneyphile]

Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd

When we'd go camping in the dunes, they'd hook a tow rope to a Jeep and drag us around on an old car hood when I was a kid.

Sadly, in today's world, if someone had seen this, they'd call CPS to have you removed.

I'm glad we got to experience real, unsterilized fun in our days!

[wendybeth]

We used to ski-jog all the time in the winter, but the way cars are built now it's nearly impossible. I remember one time my sneaker hit a dry patch of road and I went ass over teakettle, but I was lucky and landed in a snowbank.

[Kevy Baby]

I used to grab onto moving cars while riding my skateboard.

Also discovered what you get when you mix styrofoam and gasoline

[Capt Jack]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Also discovered what you get when you mix styrofoam and gasoline

yeah, same here. we needed something to use for a quick gas-can, so we got the bright idea of just putting it in a styro cooler to move it to the car. probably just as well we never actually got it into the tank that way.

what a freakin mess that was.

[Strangler Lewis]

Back in Queens my mother would send me to buy her cigarettes at a convenience store that, if vague memory serves, openly sold child pornography. Stole a lot of baseball cards and candy bars from that place.

My mother's one safety caveat was that I was forbidden to cross Queens Boulevard, which was a fairly large main street. To be safe, I had to go down into the subway and up the other side.

I, too, spent most of my youth without seatbelts. Though I miss the one-arm driving, I think that was kind of stupid considering that as a kid I did hit the windshield once in an accident. Not that changed our habits.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Capt Jack

what a freakin mess that was.

Ah, but used in mischievous ways, what fun that freakin mess can be!

I can say that if you make enough to half fill a crack in the road that is about 2-1/2" wide, and 1-1/2" deep, it will burn for about a 1/2 hour. We found out the hard way as did our neighbors.

[Moonliner]

You know, I'm sorely tempted to make today's "fear of the day" Kevy.

[JWBear]

I really feel sorry for todays sanitized, bubble-wrapped kids. I also am apprehensive about what this bodes for our future as a society.

[Strangler Lewis]

One need look no further for the cause of global warming than all the SUVs ferrying kids to school who could probably walk, picking up the walkers when there's a drizzle, careening around town on frolics to fund our underfunded schools and caravaning to Staples when the bat signal goes up for glue sticks.

[Capt Jack]

Originally Posted by JWBear

I really feel sorry for todays sanitized, bubble-wrapped kids. I also am apprehensive about what this bodes for our future as a society.

I know the feeling. not being a parent, maybe I dont have a clear idea of what parenting is nowadays, but I keep seeing one example that just for whatever reason bugs me.

its a cox commercial touting wireless TV, communications etc where the parent is taking their child to see Pauly the penguin or some such. the kid at every turn has a video screen in front of him...in the home, in the car, even in his stroller. then freaks out when he encounters the real thing.

they make it sound like 'this is the wave of the future'.....Im not so sure its a good thing and it sort of rubs me the wrong way every time I see it.

dunno, but Im not sure a constant stream of video (vs maybe a book or some paper and crayons?) is really something they should be "selling" in this way. if Im out of touch, feel free to say so.