When I was a kid...

[LeilaniOtter]

We could play in almost total darkness and not be told to come inside.
We could ride unsupervised in the bed of a pickup truck, legally.
We thought nothing about it if a fly landed in our drink - we either fished it out and drank, or chugged down the fly with the drink.
We considered the Slinky to be groundbreaking entertainment.
We could play Hide and Seek not just within our own houses, but in the whole block of homes - and doors were always unlocked for us.
We went back to school in SEPTEMBER - the Monday after Labor Day.
We kept a daily schedule of the ice cream man's route.
We could sit in Santa's lap and no one ever thought it was creepy.
We would look at much younger kids and say, "wow, you think YOU'VE got it rough?"
We thought the ultimate Hell was trying to re-feed a scrambled cassette tape before the parents came home.
We thought the pent-ultimate Hell was going to the dentist because it ALWAYS hurt.
and on that note...

Spanking wasn't considered abuse; it was mandatory. (Absolutely nothing works better for discipline than pain.) ??

 

[HisDivineShadow]

Those were the times of living under the illusion of safety.
But the wolves and coyotes were still running around, just no one talked about them.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

Those were the times of living under the illusion of safety.
But the wolves and coyotes were still running around, just no one talked about them.

Good point.
People would like to believe we had a bunch of safeties and cautions and warnings all around us growing up but in all honesty, maybe NOT shielding us from all this crap actually made us pay it all no mind.

Ignorance was bliss. *^^*

 

[HisDivineShadow]

Santa…
It really triggered me.
It brought back a memory about my friend and (not)santa. I’m not sure if I should share the story here. Nothing physical happened, but today kids wouldn’t laugh in that kind of situation.
Back then, no one really understood how dangerous it was.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

When I was a kid...
People were jailed for being philosophers.
They really thought the Earth was the center of the universe.
They thought fossils of mammoth skulls were actually cyclops.
They thought that it was okay to stone weird people to death.
People worked in brothels and slaves kept to the streets.
People mostly only lived until they were 30.
People thought that their rulers were godly or connected to gods.


I forgot some things since it was so long ago.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

They thought that it was okay to stone weird people to death.

We still stone people, it's just mutual these days and requires certain plants. ?

 

[Alski]

We still stone people, it's just mutual these days and requires certain plants. ?

or living in certain 3rd world countries.

 

[Goodmann]

I watched Captain Kangaroo, and cartoons were a Saturday thing
The cars I learned to drive with were 4-on-the-stick & had no power steering
Debit cards were a brand new thing; cell phones were big bricks & rare (I didn't have one until after I graduated highschool)

 

[LeilaniOtter]

I watched Captain Kangaroo, and cartoons were a Saturday thing
The cars I learned to drive with were 4-on-the-stick & had no power steering
Debit cards were a brand new thing; cell phones were big bricks & rare (I didn't have one until after I graduated highschool)

I loved the Captain.
I didn't really glom on to the 70s Saturday cartoons; there wasn't really that much of a variety back then. Although I can proudly say I talked often with the writer for Thundarr the Barbarian, when there was talk of a re-make. ?