On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 09:56:24 UTC-5, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 10/19/2016 10:49 AM, The Greatest! wrote:
>
> > The unsafe stuff kids used to do...lol...now they'd call a SWAT team for stuff like that.
>
> They call the cops if they see kids playing outside by themselves, when
> would they get the chance to do anything on their own.


Yeah, the concept of "just go out and play"...nope, the kiddies must be "entertained", and also hovered over...


> > I was explaining to a college kid about un-padded car dashes, he could
> > not imagine such a thing..."yup...the dashboard was BARE metal...even
> > on an Impala or a Fury III...unless you paid extra for it..." [then I
> > had to explain what a "Plymouth" was...]
>
> Imagine no seat belts and you'd sit on a cushion to see where we
> were going.


We did it and we lived...what was our secret, Nancy...!!!???

;-)


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Best
Greg