What do you remember that people were allowed to do but are not allowed to do now?

Question

I'm thinking of things like the observation place at Heathrow where you could stand and watch your loved ones fly away. Or pre-crash helmet law for motorcyclists. What else? And do you miss it?

Answer 1

chips cooked in beef dripping, walking for miles without an adult from about 6 years old, riding on the side step of our neighbours old vw beetle, anyone remember clackers? good for the odd broken wrist or black eye lol. buying a single (1 ciggie from the corner shop) getting a whack round the back of the head from your teacher or a policeman. sliding down a snowy hill in an old tin bath (couldnt afford a sledge), lol wish you hadnt asked this i could go on forever.

Answer 2

As kids, we were allowed to play with mercury and eat paint chips (lead).

My Grandparents used to mist the porch with DDT while we were all there waiting for the barbecue.

Bicycle helmets didn't exist.

We tucked the seat belts behind the cushions to keep them out of the way (before seat belt laws).

Dad used to put us on his lap and let us 'drive'.

We had teeter-totters, merry-go-rounds, tetherball, kickball, dodge ball, marbles, trampolines and many other dangerous and mentally denigrating activities at school.

We used lard instead of these trans-fat free and taste free fats they insist are good for us these days.

Lye was soap, not poison.

Phosphates were used to clean things and they worked. Try finding phosphates these days.

Aqua net burned up the ozone layer.

Do I miss this stuff? Except for lard and good tasting food, not really.

Answer 3

I miss the freedom that I enjoyed when I was a wee lassie. I could stay out playing until it wiz dark, and many miles from home. Kiddies nowadays are restricted tae playing right ootside the hoose or not at all!!! Parents are so paranoid aboot child safetey, that most of the time, they urr quite happy tae let the wee yins stay in all day farting aboot on their computers!!!

Answer 4

Play "conkers" at school kids not allowed to now
Sit outside a pub and drink having a good time with mates before everywhere in my town became a no alcohol area

Answer 5

Smoke in a Pub...I dont but many do miss being able to
Just turn up at the GP Surgery and wait to see the doctor without making an appointment.....Now it takes a week.
All Medicines were free to everyone....Now too dear for some.
Smack a Child.....The way some children behave it needs to happen.
Drive without a Seat-belt...Much easier.
Drive out of town without any speed limit.
Men in the Armed forces able to wear their uniforms in the street without fear of attack.

Answer 6

Quite honestly I'm a bit too old to be wanting to do those things myself, but so sorry my kids can't. They are missing so much fun and so many freedoms, just because of the world we live in today, so sad, Oh well!!

Answer 7

Exciting experiments in school science, like dropping sodium into water. Now I think kids only get to see videos of these experiments. Takes all the fun away.

Answer 8

i miss talking freely on the phone
not worrying about who or what or where I write letters too
i miss not being able to say proudly and loudly " I am an American" and it meaning some thing positive and to be proud of
i want to be able to assemble peacefully with out my picture being taken and name being written down on some "list"
i was allowed to be warm in my home but now its freezing because of oil prices
oh the good ol' days of the 90's

Answer 9

Walk in to a Shop when i was 10 and Steal anything i wanted !



Toys Games and pens ect . Walk in to town now and get Arrested in 5mins max .

When i was 10 there was no Camras !

You walk in to Town Centre now and you can touch anything :) Shame really x

Answer 10

As kids, we used to love to lay down in the "back-back" of the station wagon while MOm drove around doing errands.