How DID we survive after all?

[random3434]

I can't believe we all made it to adulthood!



Coming of age in the years of living dangerously - Kids and parenting- msnbc.com

 

[xotoxi]

Kids these days.

They are WIMPS!

 

[Annie]

What 'really, really' stupid things did you do as a kid/teenager?

1. New housing being built, many 3 floors +sub-basements. We walked on beams, collecting slugs. How we didn't plunge to our deaths? (that was at 8 years old).

2. At 16, friend and I climbed out my bedroom window around 11:00 pm. Drove to Lake Michigan, we were going to go 'sailing' on her dad's boat. Neither of us really were ready. Luckily? for us, the dingy was leaking too fast for us to make it to the boat. Instead we just walked along Monroe Harbor until 2:30 am or so. There was a murder in Monroe Park that night. Got home around 4am, police were there. Only time I was majorly grounded.

 

[KittenKoder]

Kids these days.

They are WIMPS!

Yeah, with all these parents now-a-days wanting to keep them in safes or bubbles ... I will be amazed if the next couple generations survive more than a couple decades as adults.

 

[Dis]

Convinced my brother he could fly.

Off a second story porch.

A couple months later, convinced him he could really do it this time, because the dishtowel cape was fixed (even showed him the embroidery stitching).

 

[alan1]

I remember doing handstands on my moving skateboard.
No helmet. No elbow or knee pads.

 

[KittenKoder]

I remember doing handstands on my moving skateboard.
No helmet. No elbow or knee pads.

What are those things?

 

[alan1]

Kids these days.

They are WIMPS!

Yeah, with all these parents now-a-days wanting to keep them in safes or bubbles ... I will be amazed if the next couple generations survive more than a couple decades as adults.

We used to shoot at each other with BB guns to.
It was all fun and games, and nobody ever lost on eye, because we aimed for nuts.

 

[Dis]

I remember doing handstands on my moving skateboard.
No helmet. No elbow or knee pads.

Downhill, even...on the bumpy sidewalk instead of the smooth street...

 

[alan1]

The pedophile down the street never messed with us kids either, because all the other parents would have just made him "disappear" if he did.

 

[KittenKoder]

The pedophile down the street never messed with us kids either, because all the other parents would have just made him "disappear" if he did.

Our's just took pictures and didn't have to actually kidnap us to satisfy his twisted urges ...

 

[alan1]

The pedophile down the street never messed with us kids either, because all the other parents would have just made him "disappear" if he did.

Our's just took pictures and didn't have to actually kidnap us to satisfy his twisted urges ...

Did you TP his house?

 

[manifold]

We just repeatedly egged the pedophile's house until he moved.

The best part...

His first name really was Chester.

True story.

 

[alan1]

Convinced my brother he could fly.

Off a second story porch.

A couple months later, convinced him he could really do it this time, because the dishtowel cape was fixed (even showed him the embroidery stitching).

I convinced my oldest daughter she could fly off the roof.
After she splatted onto the ground, I convinced her to never trust anybody.

 

[KittenKoder]

The pedophile down the street never messed with us kids either, because all the other parents would have just made him "disappear" if he did.

Our's just took pictures and didn't have to actually kidnap us to satisfy his twisted urges ...

Did you TP his house?

Naw, but he was more frightened of us than our parents ...

 

[alan1]

We just repeatedly egged the pedophile's house until he moved.

The best part...

His first name really was Chester.

True story.

Good old fashioned American values.

 

[Tech_Esq]

When I was in 1st or 2nd grade, I remember having slate fights. There was an empty lot with slabs of slate. We would wing these slate rocks the size of shingles at each other. I remember getting cut pretty badly on the leg. Just another scar though.

 

[alan1]

Our's just took pictures and didn't have to actually kidnap us to satisfy his twisted urges ...

Did you TP his house?

Naw, but he was more frightened of us than our parents ...

I'm pretty sure that the reason my dad kept a gun was because he was frightened of me and the rest of the spawn.

 

[random3434]

That reminds me of playing in Todd K's sandbox. We found old tin cans, filled them up with sand, then threw them up in the air.

I still have the scar on the top of my head where that rusty tin can full of sand hit my head.

 

[manifold]

We just repeatedly egged the pedophile's house until he moved.

The best part...

His first name really was Chester.

True story.

Good old fashioned American values.

Ahh, the memories!