Posted by Dalet on January 22, 2013 at 18:23:41 from (184.94.141.146):
The funny thing I have known for quite some time, is that in the 70's, as a child, we couldn't run around the house having fun, because it was "too dangerous!" Someone could lose an eye or something.
But back home, we were told to ride in the back of the pickup down the road, drive tractors without ROPS or seatbelts, stack bales on hayracks in ditches, work in weather that was way to hot for humankind, do homework if the fieldwork is done, chores all the time!
My question is, I know what the parents were thinking, but how did we get here from there? Not enough farmboy's anymore and its all the city kids of the 70's ruling the roost?
It grinds my gears when the cityboys are too busy making their little laws that affect themselves and don't know the first thing about living on a gravel road.
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