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FelineFae -> Still Alive? (3/6/2009 3:40:25 PM)
Until my mother in law recently gained a little weight, she didn't meet the height and weight requirements not to be in a child safety seat. i clearly remember traveling in the trunk of a hatch back toyota,,, it was like the car had a built in play pen. i have been recently thinking how different things are now a days... and then i wondered how it was we all survived being UMs... This was a favourite past time of mine. Go out in the woods and find a good climbing tree. Squirrel to the top where the branches are young, thin, and bendy... jump while holding on. It was sort of like red neck bungy cording, my grand parents called it "tree topping". i loved chasing snakes too, the fact that some are poisonous never seemed to matter. So, what do you look back on and think, "and i made it to adulthood?" ?

hejira92 -> RE: Still Alive? (3/6/2009 3:52:12 PM)
Yeah, we definitely did the "8 kids in the back of the Country Squire" thing. Also, all day alone in the woods, everyday, all summer- making forts, climbing trees, etc. I loved using a magnifying glass to burn designs into leaves (I left the insects alone- really!) Hell, when we'd go camping on the islands of Lake George, we kids would gasp swim without supervision! I also did really stupid things as a young teen like hitchhiking to get around the county.

Vendaval -> RE: Still Alive? (3/6/2009 5:47:35 PM)
All of the playing in the woods and lake sounds grand. The last part is just not a good idea at any age.

soul2share -> RE: Still Alive? (3/6/2009 9:56:52 PM)
well, let's see...for starters, I never wore a bike helmet until I was an adult! Did the swimming thing, even added biking to the lake...my parents never understood the draw to that...we had a perfectly good swimming pool in the backyard! I did the "drive the car on daddy's lap" thing....seatbelts???? Were you kidding??!! They'd wrinkle your clothes! My dad had a cap on his pickup, he put a piece of plywood in it with a twin size mattress on it, carpeted it, added an AM/FM radio and an intercom to talk to my parents in the cab.....and we'd do road trips in it! We'd get up on a Saturday, and out the back door we went....not to be seen agian til supper, or sundown.

NYLass -> RE: Still Alive? (3/6/2009 10:34:11 PM)
Got married a week after I graduated HS? Somewhere during the ceremony in a chapel in Vegas, I knew it. I was able to get married, but not gamble or drink. Go, ahead- there's a joke in there waiting to be said.

LinnaeaBorealis -> RE: Still Alive? (3/6/2009 11:11:32 PM)
I used to get up on a summer morning & after breakfast I'd walk 2 miles down to the Sound & find a deserted spot on the private beach across the street from homes & spend the day there by myself. My favorite thing to do when I got too hot in the sun was to go into the water & swim as far out as I could without stopping. When I was totally exhausted, I would turn around & tread water while looking at the shore far far away till I got my breath back & could swim back in to land. My sister would get on my bike, no helmet or protective gear & ride all over the county by herself. We used to camp out in the yard, just us kids. The adults would sleep soundly all night in the unlocked house. When I was 5, our family moved into a sort of half-finished 3-story house. Upstairs, there was a door that opened onto a 2-story drop. After we moved in there, our parents took us to the door, showed us what was out there & told us not to go through it. And we never did. We rode in the front seat of the car & if the driver had to stop suddenly, he or she would throw their arm out to keep us from flying forward. But cars were built like tanks back then & we probably never went over 45 mph, even on the highway. Sometimes I think that I've lived waaaaaay too long, that the world has changed too much & not all the changes are for the better.

PeterJay -> RE: Still Alive? (3/7/2009 2:45:45 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: soul2share well, let's see...for starters, I never wore a bike helmet until I was an adult! Did the swimming thing, even added biking to the lake...my parents never understood the draw to that...we had a perfectly good swimming pool in the backyard! I did the "drive the car on daddy's lap" thing....seatbelts???? Were you kidding??!! They'd wrinkle your clothes! My dad had a cap on his pickup, he put a piece of plywood in it with a twin size mattress on it, carpeted it, added an AM/FM radio and an intercom to talk to my parents in the cab.....and we'd do road trips in it! We'd get up on a Saturday, and out the back door we went....not to be seen agian til supper, or sundown. Your pick-up had a cap on the back? We drove in the back without a cap.

Gwynvyd -> RE: Still Alive? (3/7/2009 3:28:54 PM)
When I was little we had moved out on the mountian with my Meme. We had no running water or electric. I would troupe up and down that mountian as a little girl, go swimming in the stream, catch frogs, rabbits, and anything that wasnt faster then me..... Use an outhouse.. even at night. Bathe in a big claw foot tub out in the back yard. From sun up till sundown I was outside running around like a little loon. Snakes, and critters were no problem. It was the thumpin I would get from my sister and brother if I didnt stay out of their way. Us kids rode in the back of the pickup up and down the mountian, and all over Tn. Later on we moved, and had horses, geese, ducks, all sorts of things. I never worried about falling off, getting kicked, or any of that. We ice skated on our pond, we shot each other with our air riffles ~ Some times at close range~ Chased deer, and other large critters. As for seat belts.. you had your moms arm slung over you when she had to stop really fast. I ate things off of bushes, and if a bug landed in your food, it was just extra protein. A broken arm was a badge of honor that you had climbed the biggest dang ol tree in the whole neighborhood. As an older teenager I would jump off of the bridge over a canal with all of my friends. ( 20 ft drop) We would go out to "swing tree" and swim across the back water, to a rickety platform and swing out doing crazy stunts over the water. ( till it got to gator mating season, and the place was covered in bull gators lookin for lovin') We would race the back roads at stupid speeds, and go muddin' out in the country. Gwyn, Who yes... grew up a redneck

Rule -> RE: Still Alive? (3/7/2009 5:24:36 PM)
I loved to climb before I died. Did not dare the big heights, though. Fell down into an alley at least three meters and was hurt pretty bad. Was hit by a car when seven on my bike and spent nine weeks in hospital with a concussion that would plague me with migraines for a dozen more years. Died when I was nine. Almost drowned in the deep end of a swimming pool, but had the sense to walk up the incline until my head surfaced. Slid down a rusty rain-pipe during a very cold winter night when trying to catch pidgeons; bleeding hands; it hurt, but wasn't that serious, but ever since I have had a piece of rust in the tip of a finger. Got hit by another car as a pedestrian about twenty years ago and limped for a month - that was scary; had to replace my room key, as it was bent into a right angle. I peed once with my head in the hinge under a boat ramp that would have decapitated me if it had been lowered at that moment; I had nightmares about that for quite some time. Got a herpes virus when seventeen and much later concluded that due to my death my immune system did not function properly, giving this lethal virus and other virusses free reign. No, the original me did not survive childhood - and I mourned my death. Since then it has been a struggle for the downs of life are deep - but also a joy, for the peaks climbed by supergenius are very high.

FullCircle -> RE: Still Alive? (3/7/2009 5:27:56 PM)
It's not every day I get to talk to a dead person, I'm overwhelmed.[8\|]

atypicalsub -> RE: Still Alive? (3/7/2009 5:31:04 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FelineFae So, what do you look back on and think, "and i made it to adulthood?" ? That's I'm the youngest of nine children.

PanthersMom -> RE: Still Alive? (3/7/2009 7:39:56 PM)
i gasp took aspirin for fevers as a child!! PM

soul2share -> RE: Still Alive? (3/7/2009 9:20:58 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: PeterJay quote: ORIGINAL: soul2share My dad had a cap on his pickup, he put a piece of plywood in it with a twin size mattress on it, carpeted it, added an AM/FM radio and an intercom to talk to my parents in the cab.....and we'd do road trips in it! Your pick-up had a cap on the back? We drove in the back without a cap. Well, we did too, but we also used the truck to go camping.....us kids slept in the tent with the bugs and critters, my mom and dad got the truck with the mattress! We had friends with trucks and we'd ride in the back....usually sitting on the wheel wells to boot! The cap was there because my parents showed Saint Bernards, and it was easier to haul them in that....... My aunt and uncle had a farm.....we used to tease the bull......and chase the cows.....and jump onto the huge haystack under the loft.....had a rope too! Most kids today couldn't tell the difference between a bull and a heifer.....and working with a bunch of city kids that somehow end up chasing cows down an interstate after the 18 wheeler they were in rolled.....OMG!!!!! And then there were the cops in Tempe (I think) that were caught on camera chasing a havelina, trying to catch it.....they look like wild pigs, and are as mean as crap......and he outran about 8 guys!!!! I watched it laughing my ass off!

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