So, what would you NOT do these days?

[Gila Jorge]

During duck season my waders and 3" 12ga were in the car outside the school...during deer season it was a 30-06 or 30-30 in the car. During trout season it was my fishing gear. Always carried a knife everyday. The first days of duck season, deer season, and trout season there wasn't any school....!

 

[Shmackey]

I can't remember what I used to do, so I hope I'm not doing it right now.

 

[Bainx]

The warning sign in the lab explains it all:


"Do Not Stare Into Laser With Remaining Eye"

 

[CAP]

Not drink and drive like a fool, though I luckily never got caught.

For me things that have changed are never being able to let my kids roam the neighborhoods freely. We went anywhere we wanted as kids. Mom neverhad to worry. Used to ride my bike all over town. I could never let my 2 girls do that these days.

Personal safety is so much more an issue now than back then. It's one of the reasons I own and intend to teach my kids to shoot in the very near future.

CAP

 

[Lennyjoe]

I learned that im not as invincible as I thought I was when I was younger.

Refuse to drive after having more than one alcoholic drink. I drove way too many times blitzed when I was younger. You know, when you wake up in the morning and ask who drove home cause you dont remember and everyone says "you did". I will not take away from my family or others should an accident occur just cause I "Thought" I was ok to drive.

Will not stand on the railroad tracks next to the road and throw snowballs with railroad rocks in them at passing cars. Was fun then but seems like a foolish thing to do. Expecially when we double tapped a police cruiser one night.

And the last thing I will Not do anymore is neglect my family. When I first came into the service I was married with one child. I was buck wild and did my thing. The wife was at home taking care of the child and others as they came. For the first 4 years of my career I neglected them and ran my course. Never again. Family is everything. Life without my kids is no life at all.

 

[PATH]

Don't run around anymore. The wife knows how to shoot and I hate to think about what she can do with a knife. Yup! I sure don't run around anymore!

 

[cratz2]

Man... this thread has made me realize I was a pretty darn good kid... I stole a pack of Rolo candy when I was about six and my mom made me take them back and appologize. That was pretty much it... no siphoning gas, no papering houses, no egging houses, no drugs, no car racing...

My childhood was lame!

 

[natedog]

i cant believe that you could take a shotgun or .22 on the school bus. in my computer science class, i almost got suspended for going on TFL. my principle explained that she didnt want me to go on any websites that encourage and teach violence. of course, many kids in my class routienly go on porn sites and only get off with a minor rebuke. blah.

 

[Schuey2002]

When I was young (7 or 8 years of age)I use to wonder around the "hood" with a loaded BB gun shooting anything that moved..

So, to fully answer your question. If I had children, I wouldn't let them do what I did when I was a youngster..

 

[pax]

3. Not hide my naked girlfriend in the shower stall when my mother needed to use the bathroom.

Monkeyleg, was there more to that story?

Things I did as a kid that I wouldn't do today... hmmm. I was too good of a kid. I'd get into more trouble if I had it to do over again.

Worst I did? I played lookout for a friend while he stole a clock from the local deli. He returned it the next week, without getting caught. The reason he stole it was cuz there was a big sign underneath it that read, "This clock will never be stolen, because our employees are always watching it!"

Gun related? My brother and I ran around all summer long, with BB guns and slingshots. I let my kids run around all summer long, with slingshots, but (*sigh*) I watch them more closely than my mom did us, and I don't let them loose with the BB gun unless I'm right there.

pax

A little boy is a noise covered with dirt. A little girl is a silence covered with her mother's lipstick. -- pax

 

[80fl]

Well I sure as heck wouldn't rip the mattress tags off anymore

 

[2nd Amendment]

I bought my first gun on a school bus, nate. Old sawed off dbl barrel POS. Took it to school and stuffed it in my locker. Sold it at school later on. Nobody said a word.

 

[Gewehr98]

No more BB gun fights.

And I sure as heck wouldn't shoot aluminum arrows out of a .410 shotgun using booster rounds made from 3" .410 shells with shot dumped out. I showed my wife the tree which still has parts of the arrow sticking out on either side. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

 

[geegee]

I sure as heck wouldn't skip as many classes. This was mostly a college practice, but since I did it so often as a younger man I had to include it.

Every year, my Mother would tell me "Save up the spending money and I'll send you to England for the summer (where all our relatives live). "Oh no, I can't this summer...I have to get ready for football in the fall." Moron. Now at middle age, all I have is bad knees and no memories of summers in England. Wouldn't make that choice again. geegee

 

[BenW]

Man, somebody should rename this thread "The Confessional".

When I was a kid (and this is growing up in California mind you), I carried a knife from the time I was 7 years old (and still do, only now it's always concealed). In High School, when the Buck 110 was popular, no outdoors oriented kid showed up for school without a 110 on a belt sheath. I even used mine during dissection day in biology -- try that today!

I also routinely showed up with a shotgun in my trunk during hunting season. A teacher might have occasionally quizzed me regarding possession of said gun, but only because they needed to see if they had to rush out at 3PM to beat me to the good dove blind in the local riverbottom.

Other random stuff:

* I made lousy grade gunpowder using my kid's chemistry set.
* I played Jarts.
* I played with cap guns.
* I had a REAL archery set when I was 8, and shot it in the front yard (dad insisted on a proper backstop).
* When we played army, the guns weren't pink or flourescent orange.

 

[RikWriter]

I carried a pocket knife with me to school every day as a kid. My son can't do that.

 

[10-Ring]

Not having those few beers before hitting the road has been my biggest change over the years.

 

[Betty]

Well I sure as heck wouldn't rip the mattress tags off anymore

Like the Serta commercial: "I got caught tearing a ... MAN to PIECES!"

I was quite a square kid. I never did anything really obnoxious because you bet Sergeant Mom would be all over it to straight it out immediately.

About the two most scandalous things I did as a kid was to put a cricket in a jar under my brother's bed for sick revenge ("Man, I couldn't sleep at all last night!") and hide in the car trunk when I was 4 or 5. Mom called dad, who called the police, who combed the neighborhood looking for me. My brother went door to door asking neighbors if they'd seen little sister. Me, I fell asleep in the trunk (of a 1971 Jaguar XJ6) and resurfaced a few hours later, much to the delight of mom. I never knew the full story of the cops being called until a couple of years ago.

So in other words, Runt was borrrrrring!

 

[Monkeyleg]

Pax, there's much more to that story, but it would be inappropriate on this forum.

Like I said, lots of things I wouldn't do anymore. Another is not allow myself to get locked out of my car at night in the local park. By my girlfriend (different girlfriend). In the snow. Wearing nothing but my socks.

 

[2nd Amendment]

My God that's too funny.

I'd have had to kill her.

 

[JPM70535]

Ditto on not carrying a knife to school today ( Common practice when I was a kid) Also I don't think I would ride down the main street of my town on my bike with my 22 rifle or 410 shotgun slung over my shoiulder while headed to the woods for a day of shooting rats, tin cans, and anything else that struck my fancy.
Then, the local cops would tell you to have fun and be safe and wave you on your way. I shudder to think of the consequences today. Then again, we didn't go around shooting up schools and playgrounds, or knifeing each other over a pair of Air Jordans.

It's just a different world.


God made man, Sam colt made them all equal

 

[wingnutx]

Back in 87 I would take my shotgun to school in the trunk of my car. I was in the trap-shooting club, and we went once a week right from school.

 

[sm]

Drink and drive.

Not hide GF in closet when Mom arrives home unexpected.
Not hide GF under bed when Stepmom arrives home unexpected
Not be in shower with GF and have a better excuse why Dad really really needs to take the trash outside...before shower finished.
Perhaps stopping the elevator on the 10 floor at the building where I worked wasn't a good idea, yeah, same GF

Not have closed the Drive In Movie theatres...I think thats what wrong with kids these days

 

[Monkeyleg]

re1973, it sounds like I'm not the only one who let the Little Guy do the thinking for the Big Guy in his youth.


(Hmmm.... I hope that's not inappropriate for this forum).

 

[Dennis]

re1973,

Your posts seem to lend credence to your sig line...


(Mods: We need a "feigned innocence" smiley! )