"The Greatest!" > wrote in message
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> 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.
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>
> 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.
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>
> We did it and we lived...what was our secret, Nancy...!!!???
>
> ;-)
>
>
> --
> Best
> Greg

The secret was people who believed they were responsible for themselves and
their children without government interference.

Cheri