OT: How did we surive?

Issac · Post by **Issac** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:12 pm

We got rolled up our own car windows. Goof d thing if you fall asleep and end up in a canal.

roster · Post by **roster** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:04 pm

Anonymous wrote:........ We know we're old when we reminisce. ........

I can remember being 19 years old and sitting around with the boys talking (and usually lying) about the stuff we pulled when we were 13.

Goofproof · Post by **Goofproof** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:18 pm

Bert_Mathews wrote:
rooster wrote:
Wulfman wrote:..........I don't think that ANY of us kids were without a pocket knife.....
I remember in the sixth grade, there was a fad among us boys of collecting and trading switch-blade knives at school. I don't remember anyone ever being hurt.

Now for something that really seems weird, I had a friend who had hemophilia along with two brothers with the same condition. Every so often, I would bring my whole knife collection to school and he would take it home and sharpen them all that night!
MAYBE you remember playing "mumble Peg" It was a game where you FLIP A KNIFE and make it stick in the ground -- Then you were able to beat the peg into the ground & the LOOSER had to pull it out with his teeth!
I remember a girl that would beat me almost every time -- We went to a one room school till 9th, grade... I still carry a knife and have a great collection...

Bert
"Good memory's"

We used to play STRETCH, sticking the knife in the ground, and the other guy had to reach for it. The game ended when I stuck the knife in my friends leg. Jim

I always had a knife, but wasn't allowed a switch blade, as they were outlawed in Indiana. I had one like one but it wouldn't fly open. My uncle had a 20 inch grinding stone in the back yard, He could get a knife so sharp, that just looking at the blade would cut you. Jim

Suz-E-Q · Post by **Suz-E-Q** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 7:39 pm

We had horses and we rode off into the woods for hours, no riding helmet (hardhat)...we would jump what ever we could find to jump. Once I asked my Mom if whe was ever worried about us going off for the whole day wandering around in the woods (with or without the horses)....she said she never thought much about it!

Though my sister did break her elbow when she fell off a pony. But there were a bunch of us around and she we were near the barn.

What a wonderful childhood......testing boundaries, hitch-hiking to town with my Grandmother!!! after Dad took her car away and before I could drive. OR riding to town - 5 miles - on our bikes on a narrow 2 lane road....just about all up hill on the way back....

Those were the days my friends...

j.a.taylor · Post by **j.a.taylor** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:37 pm

Wulfman wrote:How did we survive?
Well, I guess the ones who are reading this DID survive. Survival of the fittest....

That's it Den, we'll just keeping convincing ourselves that we were higher up on the food chain, had better genes, stronger constitutions . . .

. . . and a whole lot of plain dumb luck

Goofproof · Post by **Goofproof** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:51 pm

j.a.taylor wrote:
Wulfman wrote:How did we survive?
Well, I guess the ones who are reading this DID survive. Survival of the fittest....
That's it Den, we'll just keeping convincing ourselves that we were higher up on the food chain, had better genes, stronger constitutions . . .

. . . and a whole lot of plain dumb luck

Maybe we were born with the "Luck" Gene, If we were, the Government and the Do Gooders, are trying to keep it from being passed to the next generation. A few more generations that degrade like the last few, diapers won't be good enough. Sheep that they can control. Jim