Things we can't do anymore......

[Cranky]

I had a Sears Cat mini-bike when I was a kid. It was a big, heavy bike with a 3 horse Briggs, slow as **** but fun nonetheless. I wish I had a Rupp Bonanza or a Stella Black Beauty. Those were the mini-bikes to have.

I remember my dad saying "You kids don't know how good you have it". He was right. We should be telling our kids "You kids don't know how good we had it!!!". On second thought, maybe I'll just keep my mouth shut. Don't want to fill my kids head up with anything stupid (even if it is the truth).

No, tell them and tell them why we're are like we are these days!! They need to know. I also remember when someone called the cops on us as kids when we screwed up bad enough. Now if you call the cops on some kid, all the kid has to do is point their finger at us and the cops start questioning US!!

 

[Satellite65]

Ya know what? you're right!!! We should tell them. I don't know what good it'll do or what could be gained, but they should at least know what things were like and WHY they became the way they are now. Maybe they'll learn something from our mistakes.

 

[Cranky]

Ya know what? you're right!!! We should tell them. I don't know what good it'll do or what could be gained, but they should at least know what things were like and WHY they became the way they are now. Maybe they'll learn something from our mistakes.

Yup....and right now all we have in Washington running the show are lawyers who have never had any experience running a business or owning one....ie, academics and politics is all the experience they have. Kinda funny that whenever I went job hunting, the interviewer ALWAYS asked what kind of experience I had. They didn't care so much about what I leaned in school...

 

[oem6pak]

mini bike

i had a rupp mini bike,i loved that thing

 

[Charg68]

Remember when you could go out halloweening,come home and gorge on candy without having to get your parents to inspect it first for needles and razor blades? How about when we lived in town and my dad used to pull us around behind the half ton on a car hood in the winter.Couldn,t afford a snowmobile.Now the cops would be right on your ***,because some freak watching out their window would put a stop to somebody having some fun.

 

[Cranky]

Remember when you could go out halloweening,come home and gorge on candy without having to get your parents to inspect it first for needles and razor blades? How about when we lived in town and my dad used to pull us around behind the half ton on a car hood in the winter.Couldn,t afford a snowmobile.Now the cops would be right on your ***,because some freak watching out their window would put a stop to somebody having some fun.

Use to to the hoods on the beach and run to the edge of the water the pull the car/truck back with the hood slinging out into the water. Talk about fun lol. The beach cops put an end to all that tho. If you want to play that game, you got to go way down the Gulf Coast where there's mostly nothing and that takes some driving.

 

[scotts74birds]

Never did the hoods, great idea! But we did the bumper hitching in the snow for us yankees. Now it would tear the whole rear fascia off the cars! We were about 11 and my friends older brother would do doughnuts in the snow in the cul-de-sac where they lived. We grabbed the bumper in the snow, and he let it RIP! I got sent into a pile of garbage cans, and never had so much fun in my life! Cool crash, plus the noise......we still talk about that one!

 

[Meep-Meep]

I also remember getting cigarettes for my mom at age 6 or so and riding in the back of pick up trucks. No helmets on bikes. Buying real muscle cars for $500.00. Having the highway patrol pull up to a street race session and get on the loud speaker saying "there will be no more racing tonight folks - and I hope everyone has their headers capped up" The announcement was going on while I was capping up my headers. Getting the paddle across the butt in 4th grade for kicking the bathroom door, and have my parents back up the principal!! Got the strap at least once from my step dad and no one called the cops! Well, he was a cop!! Getting a box full of confiscated fireworks from Chinatown (dad was a cop, remember?) and lighting them off in the back yard. Renting a clamp on bumper hitch and having it hooked up to my 68 Road Runner. Buy leaded gas at the pump. Riding a dirt bike on a canal trail on the way to a dirt lot and have a cop stop us. He asked where we were going, and when we told him, he gave us an escort on the city streets! Not having to answer a cell phone. Seems there was a time where I didn't have to pay bills.

 

[Phantomcobra]

All these things have gone away because people are too stupid to have common sense or be responsible for themselves. Everyone else thinks they have to be responsible for everyone else but not themselves. China owns so much of our debt that they should just foreclose and take over. WE appear to be well on our way there anyway. The person with the most money (or at least best way of spending it) and least common sense is the one elected (regardless of party). Here is an example of what I think the U.S. should be run like.

The feds give the overall umbrella law that would be specific but liberal for anything needing to cover the entire nation. For instance it is too hard for car builders to have 50 different rules so the feds would give overall rules of what cars must have available in them but not what must be used, just what is available.
The states could stay with that law or tighten it if the state is more conservative. For instance if the feds said all cars must have seatbelts and air bags, the state could tighten it by saying at least one of them must be operable or in use.
The community would stay with the state law or tighten it further if that area was more conservative. For instance the community could say both safety devices must be used all the time.

In this way the feds stay out of our lives, the state has a little control but the community you live in is the one you answer to, not some idiot in Washington who has never even been to your neck of the woods.

One of my favorite sayings was back in the early 70s when the gas "crisis" was taking place. "It is no wonder they think there is an oil shortage. All the oil is in Oklahoma and Texas and all the dipsticks are in Washington!"

 

[Dodge 330]

I grew up on a farm in S.E. Kansas about a mile from a large lake.

We used to ride 3-wheelers all around it, down to the river, and all over an abandoned rock quarry.

Now 3-wheelers are outlawed, the lake roads are paved and all the cool places that lead to the river and the rock quarry are all fenced in, gated and locked because of liability issues.

I would drive to High School with the standard 12-gauge shotgun and 22 rifle in the back window of the '75 Powerwagon as did every other teenage boy that lived on the farm. Try that now!

 

[Redhorse719]

I have trouble touching my toes anymore.

 

[Phantomcobra]

You have toes? Mine disappeared a few years ago. Matter of fact when I look down I'm wondering what the heck is holding me up.

 

[Redhorse719]

You're right, but once I get over I can see my toes. Then the real problem starts, how do I get back up?

 

[MarPar]

buddy of ours had a vw bug hood (trunk lol) we used to wax up and go sledding with it...HOLY CRAP what a rush!! fastest damn toboggan i've ever been on!! only drawback was, when you spilled on it, you would roll and cartwheel for what seems like miles!!!

we also would take caprice hoods (we wouldn't dare tear up a MoPar hood lol) and "skitch" behind a pickup. we'd wax that bastard to high heaven and fly all over the town's streets. just don't piss off the driver or you would end up a mile deep into a snowbank!!! :icon_hang:

 

[MarPar]

You have toes? Mine disappeared a few years ago. Matter of fact when I look down I'm wondering what the heck is holding me up.

don't they call that the dickie-do?? :icon_dwarf:

 

[A38Valiant]

I remember riding on the dogbox of a neighbor's A100 van on a regular basis at the ages of 4 through 7. Sleeping laying in the back of dad's 65 Fury wagon while he was driving. Less traffic on the roads around here on a Saturday afternoon than there is now at 2A.M. on a weeknight. I remember when the smell of most car's exhaust was actually pleasant, back when gas was gas and not that piss they sell today.