When you think of all the crazy stunts you pulled as a child,do you think you're lucky to be alive?

Question

Good lord,when I think back to the bicycle wrecks ,the climb up the 100ft tree,being chased by the neighboors bull and walking on the NEWLY frozen pond, I think "Where was my guardian angle hiding? Are you one of the LUCKY ones?

Answer 1

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking . As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat. We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O. K. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........
WE HAD FRIENDS
and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

Answer 2

I definitely think I'm lucky.
Your guardian angle was right on top of you or you would have fallen through the ice while running away from the bull that tried to gore you while you climbed that 100 foot tree. LOL.
I didn't have a problem climbing the tree, it was the getting down that bothered me. 2 broken arms, not at the same time, 3 cracked ribs, and a broken wrist. I can tell you for a fact that it isn't the fall that hurts, it's that sudden stop at the bottom. LOL.

Answer 3

You'd better believe it. I stood up in a rocking chair when I was 3 (3 stitches), flipped over my handlebars and slid down a hill on my face (4 stitches and a broken nose), did a backflip off a diving board and didn't get far enough out (8 stitches), you name it. My family claims I have all the grace and natural beauty of a pregnant water buffalo (it was fine until they added the "natural beauty"). I've carried on through adulthood, too--I've fallen down hillsides covered by rocks, I've sprained my ankles so many times I keep casts handy, etc. But somehow, I'm still here after 43 years!

Answer 4

lived in block of flats used to climb down the outside 9 floors

Answer 5

Yes indeed. And times were different back then in the 60's and 70's. I am still finding out some of the things my children did and I just don't want to know anymore. Now I have to worry about my grand children. Thanks for reminding me !!!! Ha, ha.

Answer 6

Definitely, playing frogger on the interstate, chicken with trains. not to mention the fires and homemade bombs. It's a miracle I'm alive.

Answer 7

Of course I am. Anybody alive now is one of the lucky ones, even if they don't feel like it. We're evolutionary flukes.

Answer 8

Yep... especially with the way I drove once I turned 16.

Answer 9

good lord yes. and that was before we had warning labels and the TV telling us about how we were going to die. and to think i've done most of that stuff and am still here to talk about it.

Answer 10

Where were ur parents during these stunts u pulled? Wow were u ignored badly. u must have many siblings.