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12-28-2008, 04:30 AM
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Dude, I thought you meant you wish you told your parents to get on your level.
That would be the most baller thing ever.
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12-28-2008, 09:26 AM
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How about driving in the family station wagon with about 6 unbelted kids bouncing around the back seats and carrying on like it was Wrestlemania.
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12-28-2008, 09:49 AM
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How about driving in the family station wagon with about 6 unbelted kids bouncing around the back seats and carrying on like it was Wrestlemania.
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Exactly! Hell, we didn't even have seatbelts in our cars until I was 8 years old.
And drinking a few beers while driving? No big deal as long as you weren't sluring your words or otherwise visibly impaired.
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12-28-2008, 10:02 AM
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1) Being led out of a store by my ear, compliments of my mother. 
2) Being sent to bed without dinner. (probably only happened 1-2 times EVER but cant imagine anyone could get away with that now if it was known publicly)
3) spanked by my dad with MY OWN belt. (or anything, but especially humiliating and effective with my own belt)
4) riding standing up in the back seat of a convertible (mom says now, we never even gave it a THOUGHT back then (60's-70's). Now she shakes her head. 
5) being sent to the corner store unattended with a few quarters for some candy. 
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12-28-2008, 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by PeachPitNat
- I have pictures of my Grandpa holding me in the hospital waiting room, after I was born, with a smoke hanging out of his mouth.
- Letting me sit on my Dad's lap and "steer" the car when I was about 10.
- Putting whiskey on my gums when I was an infant to "calm me down".
- Sending me into the store to buy my Mom or Dad cigarettes when I was a kid.
I think it's a good thing that people wait to have kids now. Parents in the late teens-early twenties usually isn't a good thing.
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Now I have to do this by myself, Mom is no longer an enabler!! 
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12-28-2008, 10:10 AM
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Nazda??
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12-28-2008, 10:16 AM
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Hearing my parents talk about how they would regularly hitch hike between MSU and home for holidays.
Not really illegal, but can't imagine sending your daughter out the door to hitch a ride back to school.
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12-28-2008, 10:17 AM
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Pouring used oil on the ground to "keep the dust down" .... |
This is still done by some county road commissions (not pure oil-mixed with water I'm sure)......not illegal.
Here's another....laying up on the rear window deck of our old 1960 Chevy (above the back seat), watching the clouds fly by as our family drove somewhere on vacation. I used to love doing that. "best seat in the house" !!
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12-28-2008, 11:01 AM
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Oh, let's see:
1. About 5 kids riding in the back of his pickup while flying down the freeway, with him drinking a beer. Illegal on many levels now, but funny how the drinking and driving just wasn't really enforced back then.
2. My mom would leave my sister and I in the car in the alley behind the bar for hours at a time, at night. Definately illegal, no matter where you stand on government intervention.
3. When I was 12 my dad handed me the keys and told me I had to drive us home because he drank too much.
4. My friends and I would leave the house on our bikes and ride to another town all day. Nobody knew where we were or when/if we'd be back. No cell phones back then.
Can't think of any more at the moment...
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12-28-2008, 11:19 AM
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This is still done by some county road commissions (not pure oil-mixed with water I'm sure)......not illegal.
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This is not true. No county road commissions utilize this prctice AND it is against the law to dump used oil, or any derivitives, on the ground. Maybe you see the road commission applying calcium chloride to keep dust down, but not oil.
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12-28-2008, 11:43 AM
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smoke in the car while kids are in it.
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12-28-2008, 11:52 AM
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Originally Posted by SitWhenYouGraduate
Apparently, Mark Meadows just got a bill passed in the state congress that makes it illegal to leave your kids in the car for any period of time. My mom used to leave me in the car alll the time, hell, I requested to be left in the car when she would go into get something from the grocery store or something. The pussification of children in the Aughts is just pathetic.
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Did you notice in the link you provided that it only applies to children under the age of 6?
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12-28-2008, 12:33 PM
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When I was 16 and 17 my partents put me on a bus in Pennsylvania and my grandparents picked me up at a bus station in Iowa about 24 hours later. This trip featured a 4:00 AM stop in the downtown Chicago bus station. I could not imagine doing that with my kids now. I am not sure that I would do that as an adult now.
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12-28-2008, 12:41 PM
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Having a burn barrel
Back in the day, we had a barrel (old 40 gal. steel) to burn papers and waste. Also, we had an empty lot next door and all the neighbors would rake their leaves there and burn them. Not anymore. Anyone else remember doing this?
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12-28-2008, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by SitWhenYouGraduate
Dude, I thought you meant you wish you told your parents to get on your level.
That would be the most baller thing ever.
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Had I done that I assume it would have ended up in more now-illegal actions.
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12-28-2008, 12:50 PM
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Between the ages of 8 to 10 (late 70's, early 80's), my mom sent me across a busy two lane road to the drug store to buy her cigarettes. At first I could buy them no questions asked. The store eventually got progressive on this issue and required that I bring a note from my mom to allow the clerk to sell me the smokes.
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12-28-2008, 01:20 PM
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Let me ride in the cargo area of the (family truckster) station wagon
Let me ride in open pick up beds
Beat my arse with a belt
Send me to the corner gas station (with a note) to buy smokes for the old man
Let me drive ( without a licence) the car on back country roads
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12-28-2008, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by gbscott
Back in the day, we had a barrel (old 40 gal. steel) to burn papers and waste. Also, we had an empty lot next door and all the neighbors would rake their leaves there and burn them. Not anymore. Anyone else remember doing this?
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We still do this. You mean it's not legal?? Granted, we are rural but I presume unless you live in the city limits or there is a burning advisory, burning is still legal.
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12-28-2008, 01:30 PM
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Please uber-smart government....save us from ourselves....pleeeeeeease!
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QFT. I'm hoping that one day the government can just make every decision for me since they know what is best for me.
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12-28-2008, 01:33 PM
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#25 Blair White
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Originally Posted by 16fan
Let me ride in the cargo area of the (family truckster) station wagon
Let me ride in open pick up beds
Beat my arse with a belt
Send me to the corner gas station (with a note) to buy smokes for the old man
Let me drive ( without a licence) the car on back country roads
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my dad used to beat my ass w/a belt too. is that illegal now?
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12-28-2008, 01:42 PM
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#25 Blair White
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my dad used to beat my ass w/a belt too. is that illegal now?
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I dont think it is illegal but:
a. You had better not do it in public and
b. You had better not leave a mark or,
c. You COULD get a visit from child protective services. 
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12-28-2008, 01:54 PM
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I love the fist pump!
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12-28-2008, 01:56 PM
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my dad used to beat my ass w/a belt too. is that illegal now?
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Mine too. Or, we'd have to go outside and pick a branch off a tree to be spanked with.
My mother also kept about a foot long piece of driftwood in the kitchen drawer to spank us with.
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12-28-2008, 03:02 PM
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We still do this. You mean it's not legal?? Granted, we are rural but I presume unless you live in the city limits or there is a burning advisory, burning is still legal. |
Zoned townships usually do not allow burning without a permit. In most cases all you need to do is call to the fire department for a daily permit. If you burn without a permit you could be fined big time. If a fire truck shows up at your place due to anyone calling in on you it could cost you hundreds of dollars in fees and fines.
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